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International media report on Leiden dosage app for corona patients 30 March 2020
Coen van Hasselt's research group quickly produced an app that enables doctors to determine the correct dosage of commonly used medicines for corona p...
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App helps doctors find the right dose of corona medication 25 March 2020
Leiden researchers have developed an app that doctors can use to more easily determine the right dosage of medication for corona patients. At the mome...
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Understanding metastasis: Science Groot grant for Erik Danen 05 March 2020
A team led by Erik Danen from the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research has received a 3 million euros NWO Science Groot grant to unravel the first...
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The QSPainRelief consortium will improve the treatment of chronic pain 28 February 2020
The €6.24 million EU-funded research project QSPainRelief has kicked off. The project aims to help patients suffering from chronic pain with novel, pe...
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists 24 February 2020
Leiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domai...
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Partnering with businesses to scale up metabolism research 21 February 2020
Predicting whether someone will fall ill and which treatment will benefit them most: that is the aim of the techniques that Professor of Analytical Bi...
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New insight into immune cell behaviour offers opportunities for cancer treatment 13 February 2020
An international group of scientists has discovered that certain cells of our immune system – the so-called T cells – communicate with each other and ...
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Honorary Doctor Elizabeth de Lange honoured in Uppsala 05 February 2020
Professor Elizabeth de Lange was honoured on 31 January by the University of Uppsala, which appointed her Honorary Doctor at the end of 2019. During t...
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NWO grant for smart software that searches for new medicines 04 February 2020
Gerard van Westen and his group, together with pharmaceutical company Galapagos, start on developing software that invents new effective molecules. Th...
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Ebola-on-a-chip: Leiden scientists against a fatal virus 03 February 2020
Although Ebola is a virus with significant fatality rates, we still lack effective countermeasures to battle it. To change this, Alireza Mashaghi and ...
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Awards for three Leiden Partnership projects with industry sector 28 January 2020
NWO is funding three partnership projects with the industry sector. The projects relate to speeding up the search for new medicines, studying the chan...
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Understanding the building blocks of life better 24 January 2020
With a grant from NWO, Thomas Hankemeier will develop new methods to better understand the dynamics of the building blocks of life, such as cells, enz...
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‘A good lecturer treats students as young professionals from the start’ 20 January 2020
Passionate, innovative lecturers are the driving force behind our education. Janine Geerling, former assistant professor of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Sci...
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A fatty solution for eczema 14 January 2020
Pharmacologist Walter Boiten developed a new method to determine the amount of lipids in a person's skin. With this method he tested the effects of a ...
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Tracking genes to fight breast cancer 13 January 2020
PhD student Esmee Koedoot studied the underlying processes responsible for metastases in a dangerous type of breast cancer. She hopes to find new poss...