News
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Cancer vaccine packaged in minute particles22 February 2016
Leiden researchers have carried out successful tests using a new method of packaging a cancer vaccine in nano-particles. The new vaccine has induced a...
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Safety at work....headphones?19 February 2016
I would like to start with my “personal safety risk”. In the last years I noticed it is becoming more accepted to listen to music using earphones in t...
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Ratification of High Troughput Microscopy Dutch Flagship Node as Euro-BioImaging Node Candidate19 February 2016
The High Troughput Microscopy Dutch Flagship Node that includes the Leiden Cell Observatory Screening platform is now officially ratified as a Euro-Bi...
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Flipping the Bio-chemistry II Classroom19 February 2016
Our educational team has been awarded an ICTO-grant of €12000 for the LACDR for flipping the Biochemistry 2 classroom.
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€1.4 million for research into flavour in food29 January 2016
The flavour of foodstuffs can be predicted by measuring the dynamic of their chemical components. Researchers, including Thomas Hankemeijer, will rece...
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Prof. dr. W. Jiskoot listed in Thomson Reuters 2015 Highly Cited Researchers18 January 2016
The list of highly Cited Researchers identifies the world’s most influential contemporary researchers across 21 scientific fields. Prof. dr. W. Jisko...
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Discoverer of the Year, Best Dissertation and Education prize 201505 January 2016
During the Faculty of Science New Year's reception, Daniël Rozen was named Discoverer of the year 2015. Nienke van der Marel and Koen van der Maaden b...
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How killer -T-cells migrate towards virus-infected cells01 December 2015
Joost Beltman (LACDR, Leiden University) has provided novel insights in the way T cells migrate towards virus-infected cells. This was accomplished b...
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Different medication dosage for morbidly obese patients01 December 2015
PhD research recently completed by pharmacologist Margreke Brill shows that morbidly obese patients should be given a different dosage of the drugs Ce...
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Tineke Berkers has won an award24 November 2015
Tineke Berkers has won an award for outstanding contribution for her poster at the Gordon Research Conference at Waterville Valley, USA.
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Marjo de Graauw wins Turnitin Global Innovation Award -20 October 2015
Marjo de Graauw, adviser Educational Innovation and Academic Teacher at Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences has won the Turnitin GLobal Innovator Award for Eu...
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Horizon2020 grant for toxicologist Bob van de Water12 October 2015
An international research consortium led by Bob van de Water, Professor of Toxicology at Leiden University, has been awarded a prestigious Horizon2020...
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Julia Hillger wins first prize during FIGON PhD poster competition08 October 2015
Drs. Julia Hillger won the first prize for the category "signal transduction" during the PhD poster presentation competition at the FIGON Dutch Medici...
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Dr. Gerard van Westen receives VENI grant08 October 2015
Gerard van Westen (LACDR/division of medicinal chemistry) has been awarded with a VENI grant from NWO, the Dutch Research Council.
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Miranda van Eck inaugural lecture: detergent tablets for clean, fat-free blood vessels08 September 2015
In her inaugural lecture on 11 September, Miranda van Eck, Professor of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Therapeutics, addressed her research related to d...