296 search results for “bioactive molecular” in the Staff website
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Light switch for life: controlling molecular droplets with UV
Leiden researchers have discovered a surprising new way to shape and control tiny droplets of molecules found in living organisms. The breakthrough could lead to smarter biomaterials, improve drug delivery and even new insights into the emergence of life on Earth. The work was published in Nature Co…
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Lina Bayona MaldonadoFaculty of Science
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Gilles van WezelFaculty of Science
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Sander WezenbergFaculty of Science
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Annemarie MeijerFaculty of Science
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Kevin GroenFaculty of Science
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Biological Origami at molecular level: folding a single protein
Human cells are protecting their proteins from unfolding and aggregating. That's what biophysicist Alireza Mashaghi and his team discovered after seven years of in-depth research into the folding mechanisms of proteins. With an unprecedented approach, the team was able to study the folding of a single…
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The molecular secrets of medicinal cannabis
Chronic pain, nausea or vomiting due to chemotherapy. If you suffer from such ailments, medicinal cannabis can be a godsend. Though a downside is that it can make patients high. Therefore, Leiden researchers from the Oncode Institute are investigating alternatives that do not make you high. In Nature…
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Dorien PetersFaculty of Medicine
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Revolutionizing plant protection strategies: Ding lab receives 2.4M grant to investigate plant immunity
Plant biologist Pingtao Ding, assistant professor at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), has received a 2.4 million European grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This ERC Starting Grant for promising young researchers allows him to unravel the molecular mechanisms by which plants resist…
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ERC grant to further investigate next-generation antibiotics with reduced toxicity
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Nathaniel Martin a Proof of Concept (PoC) grant. With it, his group aims to make a dangerous but potent antibiotic less toxic. He receives €150.000.
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Pieter ReitsmaFaculty of Medicine
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Jorinde NuytinckFaculty of Science
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Francesco BudaFaculty of Science
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Discovery Leiden nominated for KIJK: Best Tech-idea of 2021
Using artificial intelligence to find new antibiotics. With that, researchers from Leiden University are nominated by magazine KIJK for the Best Tech-idea of 2021. From September 14 onwards people can vote to crown one of the nominees as the winner.
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NWO grant gives way to more sustainable production of antibiotics
The opportunity to explore a new, exciting research topic. That is how Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski describes his successful application for the NWO XS grant. It comprises 50,000 euros, which the researcher from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) will spend on investigating a more sustainable…
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Xinya PanFaculty of Science
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Emilie DidaskalouFaculty of Science
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Louie KrolFaculty of Science
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Awaken sleeping antibiotics with ERC Advanced grant
To facilitate the search for new antibiotics. That is the aim of Gilles van Wezel, professor molecular biotechnology at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). He wants to do this by looking at similarities in the DNA of antibiotic-producing bacteria. Van Wezel has been awarded an ERC Advanced grant…
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Collaboration starts quest for new antibiotics through NWO fund
Identifying novel antibiotic compounds to tackle antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Researchers from Leiden University and VU Amsterdam will unite through a project now funded by NWO’s Open Technology Programme (OTP), which awarded the collaboration nearly one million euros.
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‘I am curious and full of passion for understanding molecular chemistry’
Since May, Assistant professor BioTherapeutics Lu Su works in our faculty. Although she is still young, she already worked in many different fields and co-operated on two publications in big scientific journals. How did she become so successful and what motivates her to keep researching the possibilities…
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Dennis ClaessenFaculty of Science
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Isabel Nunez SantiagoFaculty of Science
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Esther van der EntFaculty of Science
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Giulia CallegaroFaculty of Science
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These eleven Leiden Science researchers are among the most highly cited
Eleven researchers of the Faculty of Science are on the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list of Clarivate Analytics. Only 0.1 per cent of researchers are included in this list, literally making them one in a thousand.
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Olivier BéquignonFaculty of Science
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Marcel SchaafFaculty of Science
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Paul HooykaasFaculty of Science
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Marije NiemeijerFaculty of Science
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Erik van GeestFaculty of Science
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Bas ter BraakFaculty of Science
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Peter BouwmanFaculty of Science
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Le ZhangFaculty of Science
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Salma BalazadehFaculty of Science
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Researchers tackle antibiotic-resistant bacteria
When a bacterium becomes more resistant to one antibiotic, it sometimes becomes more sensitive to another. To better understand this interaction, researchers from the Leiden Institute of Biology (IBL) and the Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research (LACDR) under supervision of Daniel Rozen and Coen…
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Record number of registrations for PhD course microscopy
‘Microscopy is by far the least understood, most inefficiently operated, and the most abused of all laboratory instruments,’ reads the quote on the office wall of microscopy unit supporters Joost Willemse en Gerda Lamers. It describes exactly why the two developed the microscopy course for starting…
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'I have always worked for a better world. Here at Biology we do the same'
The new institute manager of the IBL studied biology for six months, but went in a completely different direction: development cooperation and the financial sector. Three decades later, Resi Janssen is making a radical career switch. Or isn’t she? 'In ten years’ time I want IBL to be in a new, sustainable…
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Molecular Diagnostics of Dense Regions in Nearby Galaxies
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Studies into electrochemical hydrogenation reactions using molecular catalysts
PhD defence
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Rob BosmanFaculty of Science
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YAO YaoFaculty of Science
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Lisa de Koning
Faculty of Science
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Volkert van SteijnFaculty of Science
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Michael MeijerFaculty of Science
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Arina Belov
Faculty of Science
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Mirjam Huizenga
Faculty of Science
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Xinyu DiFaculty of Science
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Tamara MockingFaculty of Science