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Millions invested in Leiden method of determining sex of chicks before hatching 29 October 2018
Discovering whether a chick is male or female while it is still in the egg. Leiden biotech company In Ovo, a spin-off of Leiden University, has been g...
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Rob van Wijk has won the oral presentations of the National PhD Competition during the FIGON Dutch Medicine Days 09 October 2018
He presented his PhD research entitled “Kick-starting drug development; translational systems pharmacology using innovative zebrafish experiments and ...
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First Leiden Science Family Day: glitter gel, virtual reality and ice-cold clouds 09 October 2018
The first Leiden Science Family Day on Saturday 6 October was a great success. During the ‘Weekend of Science’ more than 700 visitors, including 350 c...
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Laura Heitman nominated for Prix Galien 02 October 2018
Laura Heitman of the Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research (LACDR) has been nominated for the Prix Galien Research Award. This important pharmaceut...
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Laura Heitman has received two awards at the EFMC-ISMC 2018 25 September 2018
Laura Heitman won the prize for Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia and the 2017 RSC MedChemComm prize.
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A rock star in a Petri dish 18 September 2018
Featuring the world’s first neural synthesizer, artist Guy Ben-Ary and his collaborators will perform at the TodaysArt Festival in The Hague on 21 Sep...
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Successful LACDR Spring symposium 2018 14 September 2018
On 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 2018
Corneal 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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Han de Winde steps down as vice-dean of Faculty of Science 15 August 2018
Han de Winde will step down as a member of the faculty board of the Faculty of Science from 1 September 2018. De Winde had been vice–dean at the facul...
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Tapping new markets for rapid DNA unraveller 19 July 2018
Researching DNA material for genetic disorders using the most powerful apparatus. This is what GenomeScan, a company on the Leiden Bio Science Park, d...
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Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia 19 July 2018
Laura Heitman is awarded the 2018 EFMC runner-up prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia
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Profiling programme about body’s own marijuana brings institutes together 12 July 2018
Bringing together institutes and research groups, how do you do that? The Faculty of Science set up a joint research theme and financed three PhD posi...
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New project funded to study Alzheimer's disease 02 July 2018
Researchers from Leiden University will develop a new approach to study the biomarkers of Alzeimer’s disease. This approach focusses on the molecular ...
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Preventing or curing diseases with X-omics 19 June 2018
In April, the X-omics initiative was granted 17 million euros from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research. The subsidy is part of the National...
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Rethinking drug discovery: Vidi grant for Laura Heitman 15 June 2018
Laura Heitman has been awarded a VIDI grant for her innovative drug research. Heitman strives to optimize a drug’s binding kinetics at its target in o...