Regeneration is the ability of an organism to restore damaged or lost tissue with a functional replacement, and without scarring. Many lizards can regenerate their tails.

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Prof.dr. D.R. Stanski

Lysosomal glycosidases are acid hydrolases that fragment glycoconjugates in lysosomes.

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is one of the main reasons for drug attrition during pre-clinical and clinical phases of drug development as well as for drug withdrawal post-marketing.

At the moment, over 350.000 chemicals are registered worldwide for production and use. Their application, however, may harm human health and the environment.

The book ‘Bestrijdingsmiddelen en Milieu' gives a transparent overview of facts and figures concerning pesticide use in the Netherlands and the impact of pesticides on the environment.

The molecular mechanisms that instigate a healthy cell to become malignant are fueled by (epi)genetic alterations in so-called driver genes.

AI Labs zijn samenwerkingen van de Universiteit Leiden met externe partner zoals bedrijven, overheidsinstellingen en andere universiteit op het gebied van kunstmatige intelligentie. De Faculteit voor Wis-en Natuurkunde is uniek gesitueerd op het grootste Bioscience Park van Nederlands, en ligt direct…

The objective of this study was to investigate the expression and function of GRHL2 in different breast cancer subtypes.

Cardiovascular syndromes are the major cause of death in Western societies.

The human body consists of hundreds, perhaps thousands of different types of cells, each with different morphologies and functions, despite having the same genome.

This thesis describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of TLR2/6, TLR4, TLR7/8 and TLR9 ligands, of which the activity can be conditionally controlled.

In this work, we attempt to answer the question:

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg

This dissertation is about Bayesian learning from data. How can humans and computers learn from data?

Cognitieve psychologie is de studie van mentale functies, waaronder aandacht, geheugen, bewustzijn, emotie, taal en actiecontrole. Het doel is om de complexe relaties tussen brein, cognitie en gedrag te begrijpen.

There is accumulating evidence for an increase in severe global drought events. In particular, Europe experienced several severe droughts in 2003, 2015, and 2018 (unprecedented in the past 2,110 years). Such droughts have caused serious and far-reaching impacts on terrestrial ecosystems.

Global Environmental Extensions Multi-Regional Input-Output (EE-MRIO) analysis is often used to analyze how changes in global and national demand for products lead to socioeconomic and environmental impacts at the national level.

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal

Promotores: T.H.W. Bäck, A. Plaat, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

In human cells, a meter-long DNA is condensed inside a micrometer-sized cell nucleus. Simultaneously, the genetic code must remain accessible for its replication and transcription to functional proteins.

Endothelial dysfunction and microvascular diseases are key drivers of cardiovascular disease, the world's leading cause of death.

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.

De programmagroep Onderwijswetenschappen verzorgt onderwijs op het gebied van onderwijs, het leren en de ontwikkeling van leerlingen in de schoolcontext. Studenten worden aangemoedigd uitkomsten van wetenschappelijk onderzoek te gebruiken om hun mening over het onderwijsbeleid en de onderwijspraktijk…

Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.

Glycosidases (GHs) are enzymes responsible for the degradation of carbohydrates and play many roles in human health and pathophysiology. Often, abnormal levels of glycosidase activity are markedly linked to human pathologies.

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Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

Aspergillus niger is an important industrial producer of organic acids and enzymes producing large amounts of spent fungal biomass.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. C.A. Mandemakers, Co-Promotor: G. Bloothooft

Novel entities may pose risks to humans and the environment. The small particle size and relatively large surface area of micro- and nanoparticles (MNPs) make them capable of adsorbing other novel entities, leading to the formation of aggregated contamination.

Building a Deep Cross-media Transfer Network to extract visual relations that relieve the problem of insufficient training data for visual tasks.

LIBC PUBLIEKSDAG 'HUMAN POTENTIAL; OPTIMALISEER JEZELF, TRAIN JE HERSENEN' (in Dutch)

A sustainable resource management is an essential aspect to satisfy the current human needs without compromising the needs of future generations.

Promotor: B.van de Water, Co-promotor: L.S.Price

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Promotor: C.J. ten Cate, Co-promotor: H.W. Slabbekoorn

Atherosclerosis is the most prominent underlying pathology of cardiovascular disease and an important cause of major adverse cardiovascular events.

Drug induced organ toxicity is the main problem of the drug development and drug usage in the clinic. The liver and kidneys are the most sensitive organs towards drug induced toxicity.

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

Control of infectious diseases poses continuous challenges for human health.

Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a large and diverse class of relatively understudied transmembrane proteins.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water

The genetic information of all living organisms is contained in their DNA. Cells modify the degree of DNA compaction by epigenetics, which largely determines what genes are read out and which genes are transcriptionally silent.

In this thesis we will explore the use of fuzzy systems theory for applications in bioinformatics.

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn

β-Lactamases are enzymes that can break down β-lactam substrates, such as antibiotics, preventing the use of these antibiotics for the treatment of various infectious diseases. However, some compounds, β-lactamase inhibitors, can block these enzymes allowing for possible treatments using a combination…