2,544 search results for “chemical biology” in the Public website
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Major European subsidy for Leiden evolutionary biology
Paul Brakefield, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the Institute of Biology in Leiden (IBL) has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research. He will receive 2.5 million euro to develop his research programme over a period of five years.
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Why Leiden University?
The Leiden Institute of Chemistry offers a unique tailor-made programme in Life Science and Technology. You can adapt the programme to your own interests and ambitions with the help of your own personal mentor. Your study will focus on either a Biomedical or Molecular approach of Life Sciences. During…
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Why Leiden University?
We are committed to provide you with meaningful, rigorous and quality graduate experiences in a personalized environment with a cutting edge research infrastructure and internationally renowned supervisors.
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Natural Products Lab
We focus on natural products research, traditional medicine, ethnobotany and phytochemistry.
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Chemical Biology Lecture: Utilizing light for repair of light-induced DNA damages: the clever mode of action of DNA photolyases
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Keynote speakers
On this page you can read about our keynote speakers.
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Bioactivity based quality control for Chinese herbal medicine
Can we establish a new quality control system for herbal medicines that is based on bioactivity rather than a few abundant chemicals?
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Chemical Biology Lecture: Discovery of the Phase I Clinical Agent and MPS1 inhibitor BOS172722 for the Treatment of Triple Negative Breast Cancer
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PhD in physical chemistry: operando spectroscopy on IrOx and RuOx electrocatalysts
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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Delegation of Holland Rijnland visits the Institute of Biology
On Thursday the 24th of November, Tseard Hoekstra and Jeroen Ververs (members of the delegation Holland Rijnland), Geert de Snoo (Dean Faculty of Science), Martina Vijver (CML), Herman Spaink (Scientific Director IBL) and Klaas Vrieling (IBL) explored possibilities for collaborations between companies…
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Maarten Lubbers
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Kees Musters
Science
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Louie Krol
Science
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LED3 Drug Discovery Case Studies
To get a feeling of how we operate at LED3 when it comes to Early Drug Discovery, please browse through our case studies. When you select a case study you’ll find relevant contacts.
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Han de Winde
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Safety testing of chemicals without laboratory animals
Testing chemical substances without using animals. It seems a utopia, but a European team is going to develop a way to make this a reality. The RISK-HUNT3R project, led by Leiden professor Bob van de Water, received 23 million euros from the European Commission for this purpose. The project was launched…
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Towards efficient low-temperature CO2 electrolysis
In what way can the chemical properties of cobalt porphyrines be adjusted to optimize their selectivity and activity when using them for the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to methane and methanol?
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Assessing the safety of chemicals and medicines without laboratory animals
One of the holy grails of drug research is to be able to assess the safety of chemicals and pharmaceuticals without using laboratory animals. Researchers from Leiden University, among others, now receive a grant from the National Science Agenda to pursue that goal.
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Designing better catalysts using simple chemical concepts
An international team of researchers, including Federico Calle-Vallejo of Leiden University’s Institute of Chemistry, have taken the atomic-scale design of catalysts to the next level. Their research contributes to the quest for a method to generate or store energy more efficiently. The report is published…
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New IBL-professor in Ultrastructural Biology: Ariane Briegel
Ariane Briegel has been appointed Professor in the fìeld of Ultrastructural Biology within the Faculty of Science at the Institute of Biology from the 1st of December 2015. Her expertise is in using electron cryotomography to study how microbes sense and respond to their environment.
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Teacher knowledge and lesson design
The studies reported in this thesis were situated in the context of an innovation of Dutch secondary school biology curricula. As in any innovation, the practical knowledge of teachers determine the outcomes through the decisions they make while planning and teaching their lessons. The aim of the studies…
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Training
As a PhD candidate, you are expected to follow certain courses and training programmes in the context of your training as a researcher. The courses and training programmes will help you conduct your research, write your dissertation, develop your career, and gain self-insight. The LACDR PhD training…
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Animal Sciences
We perform multidisciplinary research at molecular, cellular, and organismal levels of animal biology to increase fundamental understanding of health and disease.
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Cancer pathogenesis and therapy
With cancer, a person’s body cells grow uncontrollably. Putting together a detailed picture of how this comes about makes it possible to develop efficient therapies. Researchers at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) and Leiden University are working together to gain a better understanding…
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PhD in physical chemistry: operando spectroscopy on platinum electrocatalysts
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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PhD candidate || Structure and dynamics in enzyme catalysis (1.0 fte)
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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Animal-free chemical safety testing with new technology ToxProfiler
Toxys, Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center have agreed immediately to commercialise and also develop further the ToxProfiler technology invented at the two institutions. ToxProfiler allows for rapid toxicity hazard identification of novel and existing drugs, chemicals, and other substances.…
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Hit and Lead Optimization
The goal of hit and lead optimization is to optimize suitable chemical starting points that can modulate a drug target. The methods and technologies used are similar to those in Hit Discovery, but once the compound has shown activity in an animal model, it moves from 'hit' to 'lead.'
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Biology brothers write book about nature and adventure in Eastern Europe: 'I didn't know there live pelicans in Romania'
With a self-converted red camper van, biologists and twin brothers Kevin and Marvin Groen go on a nature adventure in Eastern Europe. Together, they search for wild animals, beautiful nature and places to sport. From a long search for a bear in the Slovakian wilderness to the discovery that pelicans…
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Sander van Kasteren
Science
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Top rating for Biology at Leiden University
Biology is one of the four top educational programs at Leiden University according to the national “Guide to Universities” (Keuzegids Universiteiten).
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Edi Gittenberger
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Pieter Baas
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Bregje Brinkmann
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Jane Yin
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August Martin
Faculty of Humanities
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A chemical connection that affects your immune system
A group of chemists, that includes Sander van Kasteren and Hermen Overkleeft, has discovered that azides, a certain type of chemical compound, can determine whether or not T cells respond to or ignore a vaccine. Their discovery is set to be published in Angewandte Chemie.
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Leiden biology appreciated with large NWO grants
A Vici grant and a Science-GROOT: scientists from the Institute of Biology Leiden have been awarded prestigious grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). From investigating bacteria without cell walls to harnessing plants with the help of microorganisms.
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Women’s Day for Biology students
‘It was not always accepted, but I just wanted to be a researcher. Now, I am as happy as can be.’ It is one of the quotes from the International Women’s Day presentation for Biology students. Seven women, working as researchers and teachers at the CML, IBL, and Naturalis, shared their experiences with…
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Down-to-earth biology student wins Young Talent Award
Gijs van der Velden has one of the best study results in his first college year of all science studies. With that, he won the Young Talent Incentive award and received 500 euros of the Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW). The biology student remains quite nonchalantly. ‘Of course,…
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Academic year Biology starts with 2020 pieces less litter
The new academic year has started and with it education as well. Associate professor Dennis Claessen and Director of Education Han de Winde from the Institute of Biology Leiden devised an environmentally friendly introduction to the Leiden Bio Science Park for their students, with the help of Plastic…
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Career prospects
With an MSc in Chemistry you are well prepared for a broad array of career prospects. The chemical industry is one of the largest contributors to the economic welfare worldwide.
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PhD candidate in bio-synthetic chemistry of small-molecule drugs targeting viral RNAs
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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2 PhD candidates to study the molecular mechanisms of the Hsp70 chaperone in neurodegenerative disease
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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High-throughput screening for developmental and reproductive toxicity
Can chemical safety assessment be improved with zebrafish embryo-based reporter assays?
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Programme
On this page the programme and sessions can be found. The programme will be updated regularly.
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IBL symposium “Integrative Biology towards Healthy Communities”
On Monday the 8th of December, the annual symposium of the IBL will be organized at the main building of the LUMC Leiden. This year’s theme is “Integrative Biology towards Healthy Communities”.
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Chemical firms in the Netherlands regularly break safety rules
The Dutch chemical industry is regularly in breach of safety legislation. These are the findings of longitudinal research by the Department of Criminology at Leiden University, in collaboration with the Department of Criminology at VU Amsterdam. Over the past ten years, the roughly 400 companies to…
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Nathaniel Martin new IBL professor in Bioorganic Chemistry
Nathaniel Martin has been appointed professor in the field of Bioorganic Chemistry within the Faculty of Science at the Institute of Biology Leiden, starting from 1 March 2018. His research focuses on using new (bio)chemical approaches to combat infectious disease, as well as on developing new molecular…
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Computational, biochemical, and NMR-driven structural studies on histone variant H2A.B
Nature uses a special class of histone proteins, histone variants, to modulate the properties of chromatin at defined genomic locations.