News
-
‘Test medicines after five days’ 05 March 2019
What is the best method and time to test the effectiveness of medicines? PhD student Rob van Wijk of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LAC...
-
Leiden University Day in China 26 February 2019
A Leiden University Day, new agreements on exchanging PhD students and a keynote speech by Geert de Snoo at a popular symposium. In November, a Facult...
-
FameLab: young scientists take the stage 26 February 2019
In FameLab contestants explain their research to the public in a three-minute presentation – without using PowerPoint or other presentation tools. The...
-
Portraits Johan Kuiper and Ilze Bot on Hartstichting.nl 21 February 2019
The Heart Foundation has portrayed researchers Johan Kuiper and Ilze Bot of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) who fight heart and b...
-
Detecting diseases with molecules in the body 19 February 2019
Is it possible to diagnose diseases using molecular switches? The new international consortium LogicLab will address this question. Leiden chemist Syl...
-
Monitoring Cytoskeletal Conductance Variation for Sensing Cancer Drug Resistance 15 February 2019
Actin and microtubules form cellular cytoskeletal network, which mediates cell shape, motility and proliferation and are key targets for cancer therap...
-
De Witte et al publish in Nature Drug Discovery Reviews 15 February 2019
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery volume 18, pages 82–84 (2019). The implications of target saturation for the use of drug–target residence time Wil...
-
Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’ 08 February 2019
His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
-
‘Take medicine target saturation into account’ 25 January 2019
Not taking into account the saturation of drug targets can lead to wrong conclusions about the duration of a drug's action. This is what former PhD ca...
-
Amanda Foks receives Dekker grant from Dutch Hartstichting 24 January 2019
Pharmacologist Amanda Foks is one of the ten talented scientists who received a Dekker grant from the Hartstichting. She receives €427,000 to find a w...
-
Unwinding a hank of yarn: how do cellular machines unfold misfolded proteins? 14 December 2018
Protein chains typically fold to function. Folding is a complex process and if done correctly leads to a unique functional fold topology for a given p...
-
Vote for the Discoverer of the year 2018 13 December 2018
Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...
-
Laura Heitman uses her expertise to fight cancer 06 December 2018
Seven talented female scientists join the fight against cancer of the Oncode Insitute. Laura Heitman of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research i...
-
14 Leiden researchers on highly cited list 03 December 2018
Fourteen Leiden University scientists appear on the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list, which was announced on 28 November by Clarivate Analytics.
-
Tiny, pain-free vaccinations: microneedles and nanoparticles 30 October 2018
If it’s up to PhD student Guangsheng Du, patients don’t need to worry about big needles anymore. At the Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research (LACD...