657 search results for “organisms chemistry” in the Staff website
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Femke ReidsmaFaculty of Archaeology
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Elmer MauritsFaculty of Science
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Willie PeijnenburgFaculty of Science
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Flu stops when you block the enzyme that cleaves off virus particles
A flu virus could cause a pandemic. And then we would be poorly armed because flu viruses are starting to become resistant to flu medications like Tamiflu. Chemist Merijn Vriends successfully worked on an improved version of such medications. He will be awarded his doctorate on September 12th.
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Wim de GripFaculty of Science
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Chuang Wang
Faculty of Science
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Tirong GuoFaculty of Science
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Wouter RemmerswaalFaculty of Science
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Pascal Balic
Faculty of Science
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Charlotte SorieulFaculty of Science
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Gabriel TidestavFaculty of Science
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Dung-Yeh WuFaculty of Science
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Nathaniel PotinFaculty of Science
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Radvile JuskaiteFaculty of Science
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Sebastian PomplunFaculty of Science
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Chemistry as the key to medical innovation
Is it a coincidence that three chemists from the same department have each independently received a ZonMw grant? 'No,' the researchers agree in unison. 'The role of chemistry in medical biology is becoming increasingly important, and we’ve worked hard to make this happen.'
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Electrocatalysis in Confinement: Metal-Organic Frameworks for Oxygen Reduction
PhD defence
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Sarita KoendjbiharieFaculty of Humanities
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Lies BouwmanFaculty of Science
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Alexander KrosFaculty of Science
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Lolita DsouzaFaculty of Science
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Suzanne Assen
Faculty of Science
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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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How bittersweet sugar chemistry targets pathogens
The challenge is considerable, but so is the satisfaction when it succeeds: creating complex sugar molecules that play a role in biology.
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Ton KoopmanFaculty of Humanities
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Michiel VeldhuisFaculty of Science
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Robert van Bree
Faculty of Science
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Batuhan Can
Faculty of Science
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Alma KuijpersICLON
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Helping students with micro-macro thinking in chemistry
How do classroom demonstration experiments help students learn chemical reasoning? Marie-Jetta den Otter, PhD student at ICLON, researched this. She defends her thesis on 6 December.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to an AI model (and rightly so)
Not experiments and lab coats, but computers and artificial intelligence: this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the inventors of the groundbreaking AI model, AlphaFold. This programme accurately predicts protein structures based on their genetic code—a crucial step in understanding biological…
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Eredoctoraten voor Bonnie Honig, Eliot Higgins en Kelly Chibale
Leiden University will be conferring three honorary doctorates in its special anniversary year. They will be awarded to Eliot Higgins, truth finder and founder of Bellingcat, Bonnie Honig, expert in feminist theory and legal theory, and Kelly Chibale, professor of organic chemistry, who works on prevention…
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Sander WezenbergFaculty of Science
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Remus DameFaculty of Science
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Arjan de KoningFaculty of Science
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Haifeng ZhouFaculty of Science
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Natalia Ortiz – Winner of the 2019 - 2020 KNCV Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology thesis prize
Natalia Ortiz (Division of Drug Discovery and Safety) has been awarded the 2019-2020 PhD-thesis prize by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology, from the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV-MCCB). The KNCV-MCCB thesis prize is a biannual award which is granted to the best PhD thesis…
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Eani LachmansinghFaculty of Science
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Sugar chemistry – Wouter Remmerswaal’s unrelenting pursuit of understanding
The dark matter of biology: clumps of sugar molecules that, for example, form sugary webs around pathogens. We know very little about them. Wouter Remmerswaal threw all his talent into the challenge – both in the lab and as a modeller – and succeeded. He received his PhD on 12th September.
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Flentrop organ in Academy Building turns 25: ‘It’s a whole orchestra’
The organ in the Academy Building is 25 years old. University organist Jan Verschuren and tuner Bert Crama talk about the long history of university organs, improvising with short cortèges and their love for this organ.
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Huub de GrootFaculty of Science
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International Symposium on Circuit Topology Organized by Leiden University
For the third consecutive year, LACDR organized the international symposium on topology, Circuit Topology III, on November 29, 2023. The event aimed to bring together experts from diverse fields, including mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, and biomedical sciences, to discuss cutting-edge…
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Laura van Vliet-van den Dool
Faculty of Science
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‘It’s quite something to be on that list of names’
Marc Koper, Professor of Catalysis and surface chemistry, has been awarded the EuChemS Gold Medal 2026. The prize is awarded every two years and recognises outstanding achievements in the field of chemistry in Europe.
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Tessa HagensFaculty of Science
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Sander van KasterenFaculty of Science
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Kristine BertheussenFaculty of Science
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Roy StenekerFaculty of Science
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Stewart McDowallFaculty of Science
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Lars JeukenFaculty of Science