252 zoekresultaten voor “biomarker discovery” in de Publieke website
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Sensing Transport
Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a large and diverse class of relatively understudied transmembrane proteins.
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Biophysical characterization of membrane protein-small molecule interactions
Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink
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Chemical tools to study the cannabinoid receptor type 2
The cannabinoid receptor type 2 (CB2R) is associated with several inflammatory diseases with an unmet medical need (e.g. Alzheimers, multiple sclerosis, reumatoid arthritis). Development of new chemical biology strategies to study this protein is essential to aid future development of drugs for these…
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Fluorescence Polarization Activity-Based Protein Profiling on Retaining Glycosidases
Glycosidases are important enzymes in the turnover of polysaccharides and glycoconjugates, and are involved in a range of human pathologies including genetic disorders such as Gaucher and Pompe disease, but also in various cancers.
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Medical Delta café: translation models for drug discovery and development, 8 oktober 2013
Onze gemiddelde leeftijd gaat omhoog en de behoefte naar goede gezondheidszorg wordt steeds groter. Nieuwe medicijnen moeten op de markt komen maar kosten voor de ontwikkeling daarvan moeten omlaag. Tijdens het Medical Delta café op 8 oktober presenteren o.a. dr. Leo Price, dr. Jan de Sonneville en…
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Illuminating N-acylethanolamine biosynthesis with new chemical tools
In this thesis, the discovery and optimization is described of chemical tools to study the N-acylethanolamine (NAE) biosynthetic pathway.
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Affinity-based profiling of the adenosine receptors
The adenosine receptors are proteins that reside in the extracellular membranes of cells. Activation of adenosine receptors plays a role in many physiological and pathological processes, such as immune responses and cancers.
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Robust rules for prediction and description.
In this work, we attempt to answer the question:
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Chemical genetic approaches for target validation
Drug development is a time- and resource-consuming process that starts with the discovery and validation of a (protein) target that contributes to pathogenesis or disease progression.
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Investigations on the role of impaired lysosomes of macrophages in disease
The research described in this thesis combines the latest insights in lysosomal function with lysosome centred cell signalling.
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Vier avontuurlijke FWN-ers ontvangen NWO XS-subsidie
Vier wetenschappers van de Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen ontvangen een subsidie van maximaal 50.000 euro in de Open Competitie ENW – XS van wetenschapsfinancier NWO. Het gaat hierbij om nieuwsgierigheidsgedreven, avontuurlijk onderzoek en het snel kunnen exploreren van een veelbelovend…
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Mario van der Stelt
Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen
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Metabolic signatures in nutrition and health: short-term diet response, sexual dimorphism and hormone chronobiology
The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).
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Small changes for long term impact: optimization of structure kinetic properties: a case of CCR2 antagonists
Promotor: Prof.dr. A. P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman
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Improving Diagnostic, Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers in Colorectal Cancer
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Biomarkers and Prognosis in Cardiac Surgery in the ICU
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Improving immunotherapy for melanoma: models, biomarkers and regulatory T cells
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NMR studies of protein-small molecule and protein-peptide interactions
Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-promotor: G. Siegal
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Linking the gene regulatory network with the functional physical structure of whole-genome engineered Arabidopsis mutants : an HR-MAS NMR-based
Climate change is a challenge for both current and future generations. New biological resources have to be developed in order to meet the demand for energy as well as the demand for food.
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Plan B for particle physics: finding long lived particles at CERN
This thesis discusses the discovery potential of Intensity Frontier experiments.
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Structural and functional analysis of proteins involved in natural product biosynthesis and morphological differentiation in Streptomyces
Streptomyces present a valuable platform for natural product discovery. Lugdunomycin is a novel angucycline-derived polyketide from Streptomyces sp QL37, with unprecedented skeleton and antimicrobial activity.
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Time is of the essence: investigating kinetic interactions between drug, endogenous neuropeptides and receptor
Promotor: A.P. IJzerman Co-promotor: L.H. Heitman
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Phenotypic screening with 3D cell-based assays
Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.
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Ecology and genomics of Actinobacteria and their specialised metabolism
Filamentous Actinobacteria, such as Streptomyces, produce a plethora of chemically diverse bioactive metabolites that have found applications across medicine, agriculture and biotechnology.
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The activation mechanisms of G protein-coupled receptors: the case of the adenosine A2B and HCA2/3 receptors
Promotor: A.P. IJzerman
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To explore the drug space smarter: Artificial intelligence in drug design for G protein-coupled receptors
Over several decades, a variety of computational methods for drug discovery have been proposed and applied in practice. With the accumulation of data and the development of machine learning methods, computational drug design methods have gradually shifted to a new paradigm, i.e. deep learning methods…
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Drug-target residence time: a case for the adenosine A1 and A2A receptors
Promotor: A.P.IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman
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Spectroscopic characterization of exoplanets: From LOUPE to SINFONI
Over the past years it has been discovered that the population of extra-solar planets is large and diverse.
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Witnessing the Process of Bacterial Cell Death: Novel Antimicrobials and Their Mechanisms of Action
This thesis describes the antimicrobial discovery strategy developed in our group, the den Hertog Group at the Hubrecht Institute. It includes a cultivation-based screening approach for novel antimicrobial agents from the source of fungi, and a bacterial time-lapse imaging approach for antimicrobial…
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Exploring the chemical space of post-translationally modified peptides in Streptomyces with machine learning
The ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance combined with the low discovery of novel antibiotics is a serious threat to our health care.
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Inhibitor Selectivity: Profiling and Prediction
Less than 1 in 10 drug candidates that enter phase 1 clinical trials actually gets approved for human use.
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Staging cerebral amyloid angiopathy: From marker to model
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Translational pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics in zebrafish: integration of experimental and computational methods
The zebrafish is a promising vertebrate model organism in early drug discovery and development.
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Zebrafish embryos and larvae as a complementary model for behavioural research
Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson
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Targeting the adenosinergic system
Adenosine is an endogenous ligand which exerts its action by activating adenosine receptors (ARs), while its circulating levels are controlled via a variety of mechanism and proteins, amongst others the equilibrative nucleoside transporters (ENTs).
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Clavis Aurea? Structure-enabled approaches of identifying and optimizing GPCR ligands
Promotores: A.P. IJzerman, H.W.T. van Vlijmen
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Computational Approaches to Disease, Signaling and Drug Targets
The Minor Computational Approaches to Disease, Signaling and Drug Targets (CADSDT) is focused on fundamental scientific research required for discovery of new drug targets and development of new drugs.
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Unraveling temporal processes using probabilistic graphical models
Real-life processes are characterized by dynamics involving time. Examples are walking, sleeping, disease progress in medical treatment, and events in a workflow.
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Microvasculature in Microfluidics: matching complexity with compatibility
In vitro disease models play a fundamental role in drug research. They enable the systemic identification and validation of disease mechanisms and the discovery of possible drug targets. However, more than often, drug candidates that are identified in vitro fail in the later clinical stages of drug…
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Quantitative protein mass spectrometry for kidney injury biomarker translation towards the clinical laboratory
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The Function of Toll-like receptor 2 in Infection and Inflammation
The function of TLRs in innate immunity has aroused worldwide attention soon after its discovery. Because of the broad functions of TLR2 in innate immunity, the drive for the development of TLR2-targeted vaccines or therapeutic treatments has accelerated in the last decades.
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Small-molecule inhibitors of bacterial metallo-β-lactamases
The main focus of the thesis is the discovery and development of novel inhibitors of bacterial metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs).
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Discovering the preference hypervolume: an interactive model for real world computational co-creativity
In this thesis it is posed that the central object of preference discovery is a co-creative process in which the Other can be represented by a machine. It explores efficient methods to enhance introverted intuition using extraverted intuition's communication lines.
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Towards the development of synthetic vaccines against tuberculosis
The research described in this Thesis was aimed at designing and synthesizing nature-inspired compounds as part of TB vaccine discovery.
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Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences (MSc)
Deze opleiding wordt aangeboden door het Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research en is gericht op onderzoek en ontwikkeling van geneesmiddelen. Het programma beslaat vrijwel het gehele gebied van het geneesmiddelenonderzoek en biedt studenten veel keuzevrijheid.
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Dynamics of the renin-angiotensin aldosterone system in dogs: circadian variations in physiological conditions and in relation to angiotensin-converting
Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof
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Neurodevelopmental risks in young children with an extra X or Y chromosome
Deze longitudinale studie is gericht op ontwikkelingsrisico’s bij jonge kinderen met XXY, XXX, XYY, in de leeftijd van 1 tot 6 jaar. Het doel van het onderzoek is zicht te krijgen op de factoren die bijdragen aan risico op gedragsproblemen en psychopathologie.
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Systems diagnosis in chronic disease: prediction and evaluation
Promotor: J. van der Greef, T. Hankemeier; Co-promotor: H.A. van Wietmarschen
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Wetenschappers vinden achterdeur voor medicijnen
Een team van onderzoekers, onder wie chemicus Mario van der Stelt, heeft een nieuwe manier ontdekt om een van de menselijke kernreceptoren te blokkeren. De onderzoekers verwachten dat hun vinding een flinke impact heeft in de wereld van medicijnonderzoek. Publicatie in Nature Communications.
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Dubbelslag tegen ontstekingsziekten
Combinatie van twee potentiële geneesmiddelen geeft zicht op een 'superblokkade' van een overactief immuunsysteem, schrijven Leidse wetenschappers in Nature. De doorbraak was het kristalliseren van het betrokken membraaneiwit.