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Horizon Europe grant for research into personalised treatment for high blood pressure 18 April 2023Professor Thomas Hankemeier and his international research team HYPERMARKER have received a 10m-euro grant from Horizon Europe and UK Research and Inn...
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The molecular secrets of medicinal cannabis 23 March 2023Chronic pain, nausea or vomiting due to chemotherapy. If you suffer from such ailments, medicinal cannabis can be a godsend. Though a downside is that...
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Publication from the Barz Lab in Advanced Materials 22 March 2023Complex Structures Made Simple - Continuous Flow Production of Core Cross-Linked Polymeric Micelles for Paclitaxel Pro-Drug-Delivery
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How oxygen deprivation causes cancer cells to spread 03 March 2023In breast cancer, metastasis rather than the primary tumour is the cause of death. A lack of oxygen in the tumour cells promotes this metastasis, acco...
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Website full of interactive videos to improve your lab education 27 February 2023To better prepare students for their laboratory education, a team of education experts and students have created a collection of interactive videos. A...
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Why you should publish negative data 22 February 2023As a bachelor student of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences, Femke Vlaswinkel wrote a research proposal she was allowed to carry out in her master’s BPS. Fem...
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Joining hands to advance Dutch microscopy 20 February 2023Advanced microscopy to understand life and fight disease: that’s the goal of the new NL-BioImaging network that will develop and integrate state-of-th...
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Why arteriosclerosis looks like an autoimmune disease 30 January 2023Arteriosclerosis bears great similarities to autoimmune diseases. Researchers from Leiden University show this in a new study they published in the re...
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Cells with stress: predicting drug-induced liver and kidney damage 26 January 2023How can we prevent drug-induced liver and kidney damage? PhD candidates Marije Niemeijer and Lukas Wijaya investigated what happens in the cells durin...
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Best presentation award for Andreea Nadaban at European congress 03 January 2023
A starring role for PhD candidate Andreea Nadaban during the annual meeting of the European Epidermal Barrier Research Network. With her talk about th...
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Nobel Prize winner visited Leiden: 'We have hosted a scientific rockstar' 08 December 2022On 28 September the famous chemists Carolyn Bertozzi visited Leiden University to speak at the LED3 seminar. Just one week later, she was announced wi...
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Drug discovery 3.0: more effective and humane 01 December 2022Discovering effective new drugs is a long, expensive and uncertain process. Laura Heitman wants to improve this by finding out more about how drugs bi...
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Improving painkiller dosing in the clinic 25 November 2022Children, cardiac surgery patients or people who are obese. How can we improve the dosing of painkillers for these patients? Hospital pharmacist Sjoer...
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Children become bacteria to learn about antibiotics 21 November 2022Last Friday the global Antibiotics Awareness Week begun: an entire week dedicated to antibiotic use. Antibiotics researchers from the LACDR therefore ...
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The Mindfulnest at the Science Faculty 18 November 2022Are you in need of some rest, stressed about an exam, or feeling under the weather? Since a few months you can find Mindfulnest at the Science Faculty...