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Klaas van Leest receives Dick Stufkens Prize 202119 October 2021The Dick Stufkens Prize 2021 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) has been awarded to Klaas van Leest...
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors14 October 2021Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have...
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Young Star Renske Donkers: how is she doing now?20 September 2021How is Young Star Renske Donkers doing now? Early this year she was the second person ever to win the Young Star Award for the best bachelor student. ...
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Leiden students develop highly contagious card game14 September 2021Infecting each other with viruses and bacteria while protecting yourself with medicines and vaccinations. Sounds like a fun evening, right? Master stu...
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Chemist Marc Koper receives Spinoza Prize for research on electrolysis03 September 2021Professor Marc Koper researches how you can use electrical energy to make or break chemical bonds. He has just been awarded a Spinoza Prize, the Nethe...
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Leiden chemists improve electrochemical production of sustainable chemical building blocks16 August 2021If you could convert CO2 into building blocks for other molecules with the help of electricity, you could make the chemical industry considerably more...
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Professor Lars Jeuken wants to use bacteria for sustainable fuel05 August 2021On 1 August, Lars Jeuken started work as Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC). His research is at the interse...
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Olympic silver for master student LST Stef Broenink30 July 2021Not one, but two Olympic rowing medals with a Leiden-Delft touch. Master student Life, Science and Technology Stef Broenink won silver in the double p...
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Four Leiden Science researchers go abroad with Rubicon grant21 June 2021Astronomer Donggang Wang, physicist Anne Meeussen and chemists Nick Gerrits and Elliot Mock: all four are receiving a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Res...
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Eight researchers to travel abroad on Rubicon grant21 June 2021Eight young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to conduct re...
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Magic Angle Spinning NMR structure determination in magnetic environments on the cover of SSNMR27 May 2021First author Rubin Dasgupta, PhD student at the Biophysical Organic Chemistry & Macromolecular Biochemistry groups at the Leiden Institute of Chemistr...
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‘Look beyond your own discipline’07 May 2021Good research means looking beyond disciplinary boundaries, said Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Remus Dame in his inaugural lecture ...
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How do plants protect themselves against too much sunlight?22 April 2021That a switching protein plays a role in protecting a plant from too much sunlight was already known, but how exactly was not yet understood. The rese...
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Third time's a charm: ERC Advanced Grant for Marc Koper22 April 2021Electrochemist Marc Koper has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros for research into chemical reactions driven by electrodes and el...
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Chemistry research for better chemotherapy Finalist PNAS paper award19 March 2021Last year, chemists Dennis Wander and Hermen Overkleeft contributed to an important discovery about a widely used cancer drug. Their research has now ...