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Rethinking drug discovery: Vidi grant for Laura Heitman 15 June 2018
Laura Heitman has been awarded a VIDI grant for her innovative drug research. Heitman strives to optimize a drug’s binding kinetics at its target in o...
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Leiden PhD team in finals international pharmacological competition 22 March 2018
A team of five PhD students from Leiden University is in the running for first prize in the Pharmacometrics Skills Competition. In a drug development ...
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Discoverer of the Year bridges science and medicine 14 February 2018
Fascinated by science since high school, Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is driven to explore new ways of thinking in medicine. With a strong academic network...
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Tailored medicines 06 December 2017
Medicines do not follow the one size fits all principle, because genetic differences can influence their efficiency. That is what research by PhD cand...
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Medicine development is hunting magic bullets 30 November 2017
Medicines are becoming increasingly precise and innovative, but at the same time increasingly expensive. With their innovations, it is up to universit...
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Researchers reveal how stem cells make decisions 23 October 2017
Embryonic stem cells have the remarkable ability to develop into any type of cell. On their way to become for example a liver or a heart cell, they mu...
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Cancer research focusing on quality of life 21 June 2017
Cancer is one of the main causes of death in the Netherlands. Leiden researchers are working to improve the treatment of different types of cancer in ...
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Champion in headwind and predictions 13 June 2017
It is a stormy Sunday afternoon, with gusts of a whopping 110 kilometres per hour. Chemist Teun Sweere defies the enormous headwind on his city bike a...
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Almost 19 million euros for development and study of organs-on-chips 02 May 2017
It sounds futuristic, but it is possible: the creation of miniature organs of patients in order to study them and see how diseases develop and can be ...
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Focus on kinetics for better drug development 04 April 2017
Potential drugs that seem promising in the lab, but don’t show any activity in a person: they cost the industry an incredible amount of time and money...
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Sharing personal health data 21 February 2017
Comparing individual health data with group data allows doctors to give personalised advice and patients to learn from one another's experiences. Wess...
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Six million boost to search for new antibiotics 30 September 2016
Edith Schippers, Minister of Health, will be investing six million euros over the coming four years to boost research on new antibiotics. The programm...
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Leiden University and LUMC join Netherlands Centre for One Health 19 September 2016
Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center have joined the Netherlands Centre for One Health (NCOH), further strengthening the academic ne...
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Breakthrough by Leiden researchers in Pompe disease 02 May 2016
Researchers 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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Quantum optics for asylum seekers 29 January 2016
The Clinical Epidemiology department at the LUMC has set up a series of lectures for asylum seekers. The series has become a huge success.