475 search results for “cancer development” in the Student website
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Hannah SpencerSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Making the invisible visible with ‘click chemistry’
Sander van Kasteren (Professor of Molecular Immunology) makes the invisible visible. He will explain more in his inaugural lecture.
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Leiden researchers join forces against tuberculosis
About one and a half million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis. For thirty years, therapy with antibiotics has been the same, while it takes far too long and can lead to resistant pathogens. Leiden researchers from four institutes are now joining forces to develop more effective and efficient…
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Marga Sikkema-de JongSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Hanno PijlFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Mario van der SteltFaculty of Science
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Antibiotic resistance: an economic problem universities could help to solve
Antibiotic resistance is an economic problem. Pharmaceutical companies cannot earn much from antibiotic research, so they do not invest in it. This makes it important that universities do so, says Ned Buijs.
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Over a million euros for two studies on solutions to antimicrobial resistance
Two consortia led by Leiden researchers have been awarded over one million euros by the Dutch Research Council and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport to find solutions to antimicrobial resistance.
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Herman SpainkFaculty of Science
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Remko OffringaFaculty of Science
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From liquid to solid: revolutionary technique uncovers disease-related changes in tiny droplets within our cells
Understanding the behaviour of tiny droplets in our cells could aid the search for new treatments. A team of Leiden researchers has developed a groundbreaking method to study how these droplets transition from liquid to solid. This change plays a role in various diseases, including neurodegenerative…
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Student Jesper: personal and social entrepreneurship
Jesper van Loon, a second-year Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences student, is a fully fledged entrepreneur. He was still a minor when he and his school friend Max started their own business, BLIJLES Bollenstreek, which has now expanded to the Midden-Holland and Haarlemmermeer areas. ‘This is what I want, but…
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Three NWO Open Competition grants for Leiden scientists
Smart drug carriers, uneven cosmic expansion, and solar energy storage in molecules. These are the topics of three newly awarded NWO-XS grants to researchers at the Faculty of Science.
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During the next pandemic, this mathematical model will speed up the search for treatment
Do you recall all those drugs that were hastily proposed as potential treatments for COVID-19? In the event of a future pandemic, the goal is to offer an effective treatment more quickly and efficiently. To achieve this, a team led by Coen van Hasselt is developing a platform that can speed up the process…
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New assumption-free statistics offer a better choice for many research studies
PhD candidate Daniël Gomon has developed statistical methods that could significantly improve research in fields like medicine and demography. ‘Mathematicians don’t like unrealistic assumptions,’ he says. Gomon will defend his PhD thesis on 19 June.
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Seeking new concepts to treat diseases
Scientific Director of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) Hubertus Irth: ‘We test substances and look for new concepts for treating disease.’
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This is the library you did not know you had been looking for
2,240 plant extracts from 1,299 different plant species of Dutch origin. That’s the collection of the Dutch Extract Library, which has recently been transferred to the Institute of Biology Leiden. To plant biologist and contact person for this library Pingtao Ding this is a true treasury. ‘To bring…
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Running Leiden Marathon in a 450th-anniversary t-shirt
Nearly 19,000 runners lined up at the start of Leiden Marathon on Sunday, among them students and staff from the university. For some this was their first race, for others a highlight of their year. This year, in celebration of our 450th anniversary, they ran in a special jubilee t-shirt.
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Eva BaudichauFaculty of Law
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Shekhar KolipakaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Merlijn van WeerdFaculty of Science
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Mohit KhubchandaniFaculty of Law
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Hanna StalenhoefSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Zahra AzharFaculty of Humanities
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Vincent WalstraSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Melanie FranseSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Shelley van der Veek
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Peter KopICLON
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Sarah Louise CarthyFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Reza Shaker ArdekaniSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Hanum AtikasariSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Evelien WalhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Claartje LeveltFaculty of Humanities
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Akinyinka AkinyoadeAfrican Studies Centre
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Fitri MurfiantiSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Emma EveraertSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Nikki MulderSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Rachel de JongSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Luyao HuangICLON
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Amer JaganjacICLON
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Tanja AhlinSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Gergana VasilevaICLON
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Lysanne PostICLON
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Jolein HoltzFaculty of Law
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Felipe Colla De AmorimFaculty of Humanities
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Annelies van VarkFaculty of Law
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Robert OkelloFaculty of Law
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Els Goetschalckx
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