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From droplets in the freezer to the inception of a potent new antibiotic19 June 2024What started as an idea during a social gathering led to an unexpected breakthrough in research on resistant bacteria. Biologists and chemists from Le...
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Scouring the brain for causes of psychiatric illnesses01 May 2024What happens in the brains of people with psychiatric illnesses? With a €23.23 million gravity grant, scientists from different fields will search for...
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Countering nerve pain caused by chemotherapy with new drug12 December 2023Nerve pain is one of the most common side effects of chemotherapy. It is therefore one of the biggest reasons for cancer patients to stop treatment ea...
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New potential drug suppresses chemotherapy induced pain06 December 2023Oncode Investigator Mario van der Stelt and his colleagues have discovered a new potential drug that suppresses chemotherapy induced neuropathic pain....
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New protein inhibitors against cancer? Unilever Research Prize for Aukje Beers01 December 2023Aukje Beers combined theory and practice, as well as chemistry, biology, and computer models. In this way, she discovered two protein inhibitors durin...
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Stephan Hacker elected into the board of Assistant Professor Network Netherlands27 November 2023Dr. Stephan Hacker, an assistant professor in the department of Molecular Physiology at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry of Leiden University has bee...
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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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The molecular secrets of medicinal cannabis23 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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Antibiotics of the future: looking for a new way to kill bacteria04 July 2022Current antibiotics only address very few target proteins in bacteria to kill them. Researchers know that there are more possible target proteins to t...
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How Oncode-PACT is bringing new cancer medicines closer with 325 million in Growth Fund money18 May 2022How can you ensure that more experimental drugs reach the finish line? At the moment, only one in twenty cancer drugs that are tested on humans makes ...
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National Growth Fund invests many millions in faster and more sustainable (cancer) drug development14 April 2022On 14 April, the National Growth Fund awarded million euros in grants to two consortia in which Leiden's science faculty is involved. Pharma-NL will r...
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Leiden researchers join forces against tuberculosis24 March 2022About one and a half million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis. For thirty years, therapy with antibiotics has been the same, while it ...
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Leiden University strengthens its focus on Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry with seven new group leaders31 December 2021Tackling key challenges of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry to aid drug discovery is one of the focus areas of Leiden University. To this end,...
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The Erasmus+ grant opens doors18 January 2021What is it like to participate in the Erasmus+ grant programme as a Master's student from Ukraine? Yevhenii Radchenko did an eight-month internship at...
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New technique offers chemists unprecedented control in drug research29 June 2020Leiden chemists have developed a new technique with which they can determine the role of kinases – a group of proteins – in a living cell. This techni...