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Leiden breakthrough in research on nanotherapy 29 January 2018Nanoparticles that transport medicines to a specific part of the human body are usually broken down in the liver prematurely. Jeroen Bussmann from Lei...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 2017 09 January 2018With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...
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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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Immune system important in atherosclerosis 18 December 2017The immune system plays an important role in the development of atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of cardiovascular diseases. Thomas van der Heijd...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 14 December 2017Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...
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Tailored medicines 06 December 2017Medicines do not follow the one size fits all principle, because genetic differences can influence their efficiency. That is what research by PhD cand...
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Medicine development is hunting magic bullets 30 November 2017Medicines are becoming increasingly precise and innovative, but at the same time increasingly expensive. With their innovations, it is up to universit...
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Inhibiting protein production potentially a weapon against Alzheimer’s 22 November 2017Inhibiting specific protein production in the human body can serve as a crucial weapon in the fight against Alzheimer's, Eline van Maanen believes. Ph...
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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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Promising new collaborations with Institut Teknologi Bandung 17 September 2017The Faculty of Science forges new research collaborations with the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia in the fields of tropical diseases, e.g. tu...
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Dutch Cancer Society Fund grant for Leiden breast cancer research 30 August 2017Cell biologist Erik Danen has been awarderd a grant of half a million euros to study how tumor cells spread throughout the body en develop drug resist...
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Gut-on-chip good predictor of drug side-effects 17 August 2017Research conducted at Leiden has established that guts-on-chips respond in the same way to aspirin as real human organs do. This is a sign that these ...
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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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Interdisciplinary research and new friends during LACDR Summer School 31 July 2017From the Republic of Moldova to Italy and from Indonesia to Greece, students from all over the world participated in the Bio-Pharmaceutical Science Su...