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Heat-killed Staphylococcus aureus reduces atherosclerosis by inducing anti-inflammatory macrophages 04 August 2016
Publication by: Vanessa Frodermann, Janine van Duijn, Gijs van Puijvelde, Peter van Santbrink, Max Lagraauw, Margreet de Vries, Paul Quax, Ilze Bot, A...
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CD11b+Gr-1+ myeloid-derived suppressor cells reduce atherosclerotic lesion development in LDLr deficient mi 04 August 2016
Publication by: Amanda Foks, Gijs van Puijvelde, Jolien Wolbert, Mara Kröner, Vanessa Frodermann, Thomas van der Heijden, Peter van Santbrink, Louis B...
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Dutch biotech spin-off In Ovo in The Guardian 27 May 2016The Dutch biotech spin-off In Ovo is the first company to develop a large-scale solution for determining the sex of a chick while it is still in the e...
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Looking back at the LACDR Spring Symposium 2016 26 May 2016Tuesday May 24th, the LACDR Annual Spring Symposium was held.
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Hubertus Irth new scientific director LACDR 20 May 2016Prof. dr. Hubertus Irth will be appointed as the new Scientific Director to the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) starting September 1s...
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Seven new Medical Delta professors 20 May 2016Medical Delta has appointed seven professors who will bridge the medical worlds of Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam.
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Wilbert de Witte received the Poster Award at the Dutch Pharmacological Society Spring Meeting 26 April 2016on Friday 22nd of April, at the successful Spring Meeting of the Dutch Pharmacological Society (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Farmacologie) was held at ...
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Coats, glasses and gloves, your last line of defense 13 April 2016Marie Curie once said: I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical ...
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Margreke Brill wins TOP Publication Award NVKFB 01 April 2016On the annual spring meeting of the Dutch Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutics (NVKFB), Margreke Brill received the TOP Publication ...
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Pharmacy in Leiden #21 in QS ranking 2016 22 March 2016This year, the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research ranks #21 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, the institute ranks as th...
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Why fundamental science matters 21 March 2016Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 Ma...
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LACDR female professors amongst reveilation Senate Chamber 09 March 2016On International Women’s Day 2016 the portrait photos of LACDR female Science Professors were unveiled amongst 89 other female Professors of Leiden Un...
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Screening enormous databases to find a cure for cancer 08 March 2016Pharmaceutical research should make more use of data science, says Gerard van Westen, postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Resea...
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Tumours can use ‘remote control’ to attract blood vessels 02 March 2016Researchers at Leiden University have demonstrated that tumours can apply mechanical means to attract the blood vessels they need to be able to grow....
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Cancer vaccine packaged in minute particles 22 February 2016Leiden researchers have carried out successful tests using a new method of packaging a cancer vaccine in nano-particles. The new vaccine has induced a...