Promotores: W. Jiskoot, F. Ossendorp

In summary, the collective results described in this thesis show that nanoparticulate vaccines can be delivered intradermally by coated and hollow microneedles and evoke antigen-specific immune responses.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. A. Bouwstra, Prof.dr. W. Jiskoot

Joery Matthys, universitair docent aan het Institute of Security and Global Affairs, bracht begin deze maand een ex ante evaluatie van het Contraterrorismebeleid uit.

O-Nitrobenzyl groepen worden veel gebruikt als moleculaire beschermgroepen die je met licht kunt verwijderen.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong, Co-Promotor: A.J. Heijboer

This thesis describes the development of a variety of mannosylated conjugates. Antigen presenting cells bear mannoside recognizing receptors that actively transport antigen into the cell. This thesis exploits this feature for the development of improved vaccines.

Science, Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL)

This thesis focuses on the application of lipid-based nanomedicine in drug delivery, including small molecular antitumor drugs and biomacromolecules including mRNA, and evaluates their biological performance.

In this book liposomes are explored as delivery system for allergen-specific immunotherapy. Both cationic and anionic formulations are prepared with Bet v 1, one of the allergens in birch pollen.

This thesis describes the development of improved formulations and alternative delivery strategies for polio vaccination.

Promotor: A. Kros

Dissolving microneedles are a subgroup of microneedle types that completely dissolve within the skin. During this dissolving process the vaccine, stored in the needle matrix, is released into the skin.

Promotor: A. Kros

Promotor: A. Kros, Co-promotor: R.R.C.L. Olsthoorn

Despite the fact that gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are one of the most studied nanoparticles, there is still a necessity for new approaches allowing for effective protective coating to enable wider use of GNPs in biomedical applications.

The RNA guided endonuclease based on the CRISPR/Cas system of Streptococcus pyogenus is a potent new tool for genome engineering in plants.

Atherosclerosis is the main underlying pathology of cardiovascular disease. Atherosclerosis is caused by an immune response which is directed against (modified) lipoproteins which accumulate in the vessel wall.

In order to be able to develop effective medicine and treatments to prevent or cure autoimmune diseases or cancer we need to understand the mechanisms how they arise and what drives their course.Unravelling the fundamental molecular mechanisms influencing the onset and course of diseases such as allergies,…

Traditionally, vaccines are administered intramuscularly using conventional hypodermic needles, which cause pain and distress. Microneedles are very short needles (smaller than 1 mm) that are practically invisible to the naked eye.

Matthias Barz is benoemd tot hoogleraar Biotherapeutics delivery bij het Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR).

This thesis focuses on using liposomes in two different treatment strategies; vaccination (or immunotherapy) and delivery of a small molecule, and in two different disease models; cancer and atherosclerosis.

Antibiotic resistance, caused by widespread use of antibiotics, leads to bacterial infections that are difficult, if not impossible, to treat and is a major worldwide health concern.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

A framework for prospective/ex-ante life cycle assessment (LCA) and ecological risk assessment (ERA) of emerging technologies is developed and applied to a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaic panels.

How do you make a technology sustainable that does not even exist yet? Well, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts right at the start and paying attention to sustainability right from the development phase.

This thesis describes the design and synthesis of fragments of various cell wall carbohydrates of the Streptococcus species, including the branched Group B-specific antigen (GBC) of Group B Streptococcus, glycerol phosphate (GroP) modified group A carbohydrate (GAC), and the O-acetylated type 1 capsular…

Promotores: T.H.W. Bäck, Y. Tan, Co-promotor: M.T.M. Emmerich

This thesis describes the design, characterization and application of dextran based crosslinked network.

Promotores: Wim Jiskoot; Ferry Ossendorp

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A Kersten, Prof dr. J.A. Bouwstra

Natuurkundigen hebben een astrofysisch neutrinosignaal van de IceCube detector bestudeerd vanuit een andere hoek. Het centrum van de Melkweg leek vanzelfsprekende de bron te zijn, maar deze hypothese is nu eerder verworpen dan bevestigd. Publicatie in Physical Letters B.

Glucocorticoids (GCs) are widely prescribed as anti-inflammatory drugs due to their well-established immunosuppressive effects.

This dissertation contains four works during my PhD. Different biomaterials have been designed based on coiled-coil peptides. These biomaterials have a range of applications, inclusing drug delivery, cell sorting to cell-cell fusion.

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A. Kersten, W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: J-P. Amorij

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

What would be the environmental performance of the Carbon4PUR technology at industrial scale in the future?

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

What is the best way to combine the environmental and economic data and how can we create an operational system to do so, thereby supporting the delivery of data to the Data centres on Products and Resources?