News
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Successful implementation of BFW LabBuddy tool 09 June 2017
In June 2016, Janine Geerling and Marjo de Graauw were awarded a LUF-grant of €10.000 to design a digital laboratory support tool for the 2nd year BFW...
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Vidis for eleven Leiden researchers 30 May 2017
Eleven talented Leiden researchers with several years of research experience have been awarded a Vidi subsidy to set up or expand their own line of re...
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Focus on kinetics for better drug development 04 April 2017
Potential drugs that seem promising in the lab, but don’t show any activity in a person: they cost the industry an incredible amount of time and money...
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Founding father of pharmacological models 31 March 2017
After 41 years, Meindert Danhof, Professor of Pharmacology, is leaving the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research on 31 March. A symposium in his ho...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions 23 March 2017
Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...
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Metabolomics Implementation Network launched for fair data 14 March 2017
On 10 March 2017, Professor Karel Luyben (TU Delft) welcomed the ‘Metabolomics GO FAIR Implementation Network’ as community initiative to start the Eu...
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Predicting drug behaviour in the brain 09 March 2017
Does a drug enter into the human brain once administered in the body?
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Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences in Leiden rises to 17th place in QS Ranking 09 March 2017
Leiden pharmacy and pharmacology has risen to 17th place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. In 2016 it was in 21st place in this annual r...
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Discussing the NSE: the national student survey 03 March 2017
Last January, 20th, a new NSE-lunch-discussion took place. The NSE is an annual national survey among all bachelor and master students, and asks them ...
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News from the BFW/BPS Study Program Committee 19 January 2017
Wednesday 18 January 2017, a university-wide meeting was organized on the upcoming alterations with regard to the role and tasks of Study Program Com...
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Stressed brain, stressed heart? 17 January 2017
Ilze Bot and Johan Kuiper have published in The Lancet: Study unveils how stress may increase risk of heart disease and stroke. Aso: The National Dut...
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Pharmaceutical World Congress. An interview with its chair: Prof. dr. Meindert Danhof 12 January 2017
In May 2017, the PIF will hold its three-year World Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. We had an exclusive interview with the...
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Faculty of Science reinforces collaboration in China 16 December 2016
The Faculty of Science has reinforced the collaboration in China during a group trip late November. Representatives from four institutes visited ten C...
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ZonMW awards funding for LACDR research project to develop novel biomarkers for bacterial infections 15 December 2016
As part of the ZonMW Antibiotics resistance funding program, the LACDR cluster Systems Pharmacology was awarded €455.255 for a research project to dev...
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Two-pronged attack on infectious diseases 13 December 2016
A combination of two potential drugs gives hope of a 'super blockage' of an over-active immune system, Leiden researchers report in Nature. The breakt...