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'Satisfied students give me more fulfillment than getting a research grant'26 October 2023Imparting students with a critical attitude and cross-curricular skills. That is what Rawi Ramautar wants to strive for as the new programme director ...
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Master's student Nicole ter Laak wins KNMP Studentenprijs 202317 October 2023Biopharmaceutical sciences master's student Nicole ter Laak has won the KNMP Studentenprijs 2023. She wins the prize for her research project on dosin...
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Education that connects to market needs: new course for master’s students focuses on quality in drug development09 October 2023Immediately connect with the needs of industry with your master’s degree. The new course Practical Aspects of Quality Management in Pharma and Biotech...
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Organ failure caused by viruses, how does it work? Now there are methods to find out18 September 2023Dying from viral infection due to organ failure and blood loss: we still know little about how it can happen. Among other things, Huaqi Tang developed...
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EIC Pathfinder Challenge grant for research into autoreactive B cells in cardiovascular disease12 September 2023At the division of BioTherapeutics, Amanda Foks, Bram Slütter and Ilze Bot have obtained a €4 million research grant from the HORIZON 2022 EIC Pathfin...
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Oncode Accelerator launched: patients at the centre of innovative cancer drug development08 September 2023Providing each cancer patient with the right treatment remains a challenge. Oncode Accelerator aims to change this by innovating the way we develop ca...
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In conversation with the head of the rodent facility06 September 2023Before patients can take a pill, scientists often spend years in the lab developing and testing a candidate drug. That often includes experiments with...
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Gerard van Westen wins KNCV Gold Medal29 August 2023Gerard van Westen has received the KNCV Gold Medal, the most important Dutch award for chemists under 40. 'It's a huge honour,' says the professor of ...
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Biological Origami at molecular level: folding a single protein01 August 2023Human cells are protecting their proteins from unfolding and aggregating. That's what biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and his team discovered after seve...
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New treatments for life-threatening disease sepsis12 July 2023Due to the increasing resistance to certain antibiotics, the life-threatening condition sepsis is becoming harder to treat. For her PhD project, Leide...
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Rawi Ramautar new Programme Director of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences bachelor’s program06 July 2023Rawi Ramautar will be the new Programme Director of the bachelor of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences starting September 1. The appointment is for four year...
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Grant Elise Mathilde Fund & LUF: Using virus to kill bacteria: design of innovative phage-antibiotic combination treatments to combat antimicrobial resistance05 July 2023Phage therapy is a novel yet unmatured therapeutic approach in the face of the crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Dr. Tingjie Guo received a gr...
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Using low sample volumes to better understand brain diseases13 June 2023Marlien van Mever delved into the analysis of tiny samples, cerebrospinal fluid from transgenic mouse models for example. She validated methods that c...
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Artificial intelligence as the co-pilot for drug discovery23 May 2023There are more molecules that could conceivably be candidate drugs than there are stars in the universe. How can we ever efficiently identify those mo...
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Horizon Europe grant for research into personalised treatment for high blood pressure18 April 2023Professor Thomas Hankemeier and his international research team HYPERMARKER have received a 10m-euro grant from Horizon Europe and UK Research and Inn...