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26 million for research into the impact of non-genetic factors on health 30 August 2019Who will be affected by certain chronic diseases, and who will not? For 30 percent that depends on heredity factors, whereas no less than seventy perc...
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€8.5m for research into healthy ageing and vitality 25 April 2019A large multidisciplinary team of experts on ageing has secured over €8.5m for a major study of which factors and solutions promote healthy ageing and...
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Successful LACDR Spring symposium 2018 14 September 2018On May 3rd, we had a successful LACDR Spring symposium. Traditionally the Spring symposium is an important platform for our PhD’s. We have highlightin...
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MICA-mediated immunity: a new opportunity for improving corneal graft survival 14 September 2018Corneal transplantation is one of the most common human organ transplantations worldwide. Although the 1-year survival rate is as high as 90%, more th...
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Engineering innate immunity for therapy 12 April 2018
Immune system defends our body against pathogens and cancerous cells, but excessive immunity can in turn lead to tissue damages and diseases. For exam...
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Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomics 12 April 2018In the field of metabolomics, capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has become a very useful analytical technique for the profiling of h...
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Sensing drug responses of single cells using optical tweezers 12 April 2018Light can be used to apply forces on single cells. Focused lasers have been used by physicists to tweeze particles and to manipulate them. These so ca...
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Seventeen million for Dutch X-omics Initiative 12 April 2018The Dutch X-omics Initiative has received seventeen million euros from NWO as part of the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Infrastructure. Leiden Univ...
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Discoverer of the Year bridges science and medicine 14 February 2018Fascinated by science since high school, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is driven to explore new ways of thinking in medicine. With a strong academic network...
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NWO awards funding for LACDR research project to develop novel engineering approaches to study cancer immunity 22 December 2017
As part of the HTSM2017 funding program, the LACDR division for Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology received 1.08 million euros for a research projec...
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Alireza Mashaghi appointed Adjunct Professor at Fudan University 31 October 2017Alireza Mashaghi, a principal investigator at the Division of Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology has been appointed Adjunct Professor at the Ocular ...
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Successful symposium Present-day Practicals. 12 October 2017On the 29th of August 2017 Janine Geerling and Marjo de Graauw, together with their collaborating partners at Kryt B.V., organized a national symposiu...
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Topology of polymer chains under nanoscale confinement: insights into genome folding 15 August 2017
This month, a paper was published in Nanoscale by scientists from Dr. Alireza Mashaghi group at the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology Division in c...
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Staying healthy with big data 18 October 2016By analysing the metabolism using big data techniques, we can identify health risks at an earlier stage. Thomas Hankemeier, professor of Analytical Bi...
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Six million boost to search for new antibiotics 30 September 2016Edith Schippers, Minister of Health, will be investing six million euros over the coming four years to boost research on new antibiotics. The programm...