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Spring Symposium: from proteins to data 24 May 2018During the annual LACDR Spring Symposium, the audience chose PhD student Rob van Wijk as best speaker. Furthermore, six PhD students won a poster priz...
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Diagnosing patients with the help of statistical physics 26 April 2018Doctors are there to diagnose and treat people. But sometimes a diagnosis can’t be made or doctors differ in opinion. Luckily, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari...
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Innovative approach to antibiotic resistance 26 April 2018Resistance to antibiotics is a major problem in health care. Thanks to a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund and the LUF, pharmacologist dr. Coen van H...
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Erik Danen appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery 24 April 2018As of April 1, 2018, Erik Danen has been appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR...
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Shaping proteins to understand chaperone-related diseases 18 April 2018Alireza Mashaghi and his research team have created a new framework to understand shapes of proteins and DNA. With this framework, many diseases can b...
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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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How to easily measure your health 26 March 2018Easily detecting chemical substances that indicate whether or not someone is ill, or measuring how healthy the environment is, and directly linking th...
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Leiden PhD team in finals international pharmacological competition 22 March 2018A team of five PhD students from Leiden University is in the running for first prize in the Pharmacometrics Skills Competition. In a drug development ...
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De Lange appointed Professor of Predictive pharmacology 14 March 2018As of 1 March 2018, Elizabeth (Liesbeth) de Lange has been appointed as Professor of Predictive pharmacology at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Re...
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Female talent in the spotlight 07 March 2018The representation of women in science is improving, also at the Faculty of Science. On 8 March – International Women's Day – we highlight the work of...
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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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Altering the appearance of macrophages to prevent atherosclerosis 08 February 2018It might be possible to prevent atherosclerosis by changing the appearance of macrophages, cells of the immune system that for example digest foreign ...