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'A garden on Mars' crowdfunding campaign starts today22 August 2016Today, 13 students at Leiden University have started a crowdfunding campaign to collect money for research into the possibilities of growing crops on ...
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Marc Koper wins Brian Conway Prize 2016 for electrochemistry14 July 2016Marc Koper, Professor of Catalysis and surface chemistry, has won the Brian Conway Prize for Physical Electrochemistry of the International Society of...
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TA grant for Irene Groot13 July 2016Chemist Irene Groot has been awarded a TA grant. Together with Shell, Leiden Probe Microscopy, DSM Resolve and Utrecht University, Groot will conduct ...
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Hui Deng wins ICRS Award at an international meeting in Poland11 July 2016Hui Deng (MSc.), a PhD-student in the department of Molecular Physiology, has received an award for the best oral presentation during the 26th Interna...
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Understanding hydrogen electrocatalysis07 June 2016Electrocatalysis will play an increasingly important role in future in the transition to more sustainable energy. Thanks to chemist Isis Ledezma Yanez...
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TOP-PUNT grant awarded to prof. Gijs van der Marel01 June 2016NWO Chemical Sciences has awarded a TOP-PUNT grant to a research proposal of prof. dr. Gijs van der Marel (Leiden University) and prof. dr. ir. Adriaa...
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Halting protein degradation may contribute to new cancer treatment30 May 2016Chemist Gerjan de Bruin has designed a method of slowing down the degradation process of proteins in cells. This may contribute to new cancer medicine...
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Breakthrough by Leiden researchers in Pompe disease02 May 2016Researchers at Leiden University have made a breakthrough in the study of the hereditary Pompe disease. Together with colleagues in York, they have de...
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Fruit, flowers and vegetables can be kept longer using new sensor02 May 2016As fruit and vegetables ripen, ethylene gas is released. Ethylene also influences the speed at which they ripen. Chemist Tom van Dijkman studied how ...
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Students colonise Mars with E. coli bacteria21 April 2016Using E. coli bacteria to convert a toxic compound in the soil on Mars into oxygen to make life on the planet possible. A team of thirteen Leiden stud...
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Why fundamental science matters21 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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Vici grants for 7 Leiden researchers12 February 2016Seven Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Two NWO ECHO grants for Leiden Chemistry28 January 2016Two excellent young chemists, Jeroen Codée and Sander van Kasteren, have received an ECHO grant for €260,000 from the Netherlands Organisation for Sci...
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Research Grant for tuning into photosynthesis08 January 2016Biophysicist Anjali Pandit has been awarded a FOM 'Projectruimte' research grant for her proposal ‘Tuning into the photosynthetic membrane with atomis...
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New substances inhibit inflammation in the brain07 January 2016Chemical biologists from Leiden, led by Dr Mario van der Stelt, have discovered substances that can reduce inflammation processes in the brain. This i...