1,918 search results for “computer aided drug design” in the Public website
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ELS first aid kit for doctrinal legal scholars
Empirical legal studies is receiving more and more attention. At Leiden Law School, we have chosen the topic ‘markets, behaviour, and the regulatory role of the law’ as starting point to advance our empirical legal research. The goal is to bring together legal scholars and social scientists from across…
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Bringing science to practice: Designing an integrated academic education program for public affairs
Arco Timmermans, Professor by special appointment Public Affairs at Leiden University, brought sience to practice by designing an “ideal” academic education programme on public affairs, to be embedded and taught at the graduate level.
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Felix Frohnert
Science
f.frohnert@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Design for the Future: Wicked Environmental Problems in Sustainability and Health
How do we approach education that facilitates creative confidence for students that leads to innovative solutions to society’s present day and future sustainability challenges? This education research project tackles a sustainability dilemma faced by households in everyday life viz.
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Medical Delta AI for Computational Life Sciences
The fact that scientists are increasingly better able to access molecular cell and tissue data also brings with it a new challenge: how can scientists find the information they need for research among the vast amount of data available?
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Targeted Therapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
The research described in this thesis focused on identifying novel drug targets and synergistic combinations for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), a virulent subtype of breast cancer with a dismal prognosis and limited therapeutic options.
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Lettie Dorst
Faculty of Humanities
a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3026
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SPOT ON: Students with Perspective in Education and Future. Design Principles and Networks
The central issue of this research concerns how students can best be supported in their study choice, study career and future orientation with a view to flexible entry and transitions and perspective in education and work.
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Designing 'context-specific' regional innovation policy: a study on the role of regional government in six European regions
Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…
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New memory developed for superconducting computer
If computers work on superconducting current, they won’t consume any energy. Leiden physicists have now gained control over a new type of superconducting memory elements. Publication in Nature Communications.
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Control theory methods for quantitative systems pharmacology models
Following their application to system biological models, control theory techniques have further potential to aid in the understanding and application of quantitative systems pharmacology models.
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Roy de Kleijn
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
kleijnrde@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3915
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Simon Marshall
Science
s.c.marshall@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Xaver Funk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.x.funk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hanneke Leegwater
Science
h.leegwater@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6274
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Philipp Kropf
Science
p.kropf@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Carlo Beenakker
Science
beenakker@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5532
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Peng Sun
Science
p.sun@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Bioprinting human tissues for drug testing
Bioprinters that enable scientists to engineer complex tissues and organs. It sounds like science-fiction, but not for the scientists of the Alireza Mashaghi lab at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research. The lab has recently been equipped with two state-of-the-art bioprinters: BioX and LumenX+.…
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NMR Facility
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy is a non-destructive analytical technique that is used to study the nature and characteristics of molecules with an atomic level precision. It has a wide range of applications especially in synthetic chemistry, biological and biochemical research groups…
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Mark Roelofsen
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
m.roelofsen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589
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NWA funding for communications research on quantum computing
Leiden physicist Julia Cramer receives 50 thousand euros in funding for 'Let's talk about quantum', a research project on communication about quantum computing. A project for high school students by education expert Henk Buisman is also included in the NEWA ELSA funding.
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Parameter optimization toward optimal microneedle-based dermal vaccination
Microneedle-based vaccination has several advantages over vaccination by using conventional hypodermic needles.
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regular and deuterated water in space: a combined laboratory and computational study
Promotor: Prof.dr. H.V.J. Linnartz, Co-Promotores: H.M. Cuppen, S. Ioppolo
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Design and development of a comprehensive data management platform for cytomics: cytomicsDB
Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek
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Laura Heitman
Science
l.h.heitman@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4558
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Simon Portegies Zwart
Science
spz@strw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8429
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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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Van der Leun and Rodrigues on the criminalisation of migrant aid
Aid workers being summoned to appear before a court in Greece and more stringent rules for rescue boats in Italy. Is providing aid to asylum seekers being criminalised? There's no doubt about it, according to Joanne van der Leun and Peter Rodrigues.
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The chemistry behind cancer drugs: searching for fewer side effects
PhD candidate Dennis Wander searches for the best of both worlds. That is to say: a cancer drug that is effective and also has minimal side effects. To this end, he makes new molecules inspired by two existing medicines. And not without result: ‘We have created a new variant that is very promising.’…
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Drug discovery 3.0: more effective and humane
Discovering effective new drugs is a long, expensive and uncertain process. Laura Heitman wants to improve this by finding out more about how drugs bind to proteins that play a role in disease. She calls it ‘drug discovery 3.0’. Inaugural lecture on 9 December.
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Impurities in sugar excipients could cause drugs to fail
Sugar excipients, needed to stabilize medicines, can be unsafe for patients due to an impurity discovered recently by Daniel Weinbuch. ‘The biopharmaceutical industry should now consider new excipient quality criteria for safer drug development,’ he says. PhD defence on 13 December.
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GTGC lunch seminar: Santino Regilme on Global Drug Wars
On the 6th of March 2023, Santino Regilme presented his work-in-progress titled 'Global Drug Wars: Contested Normative Orders of Peace, Security, and Human Rights'. If the battle against illegal drugs is construed as a war, how is victory in such a war defined and constructed? If the oppositional…
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Sensing drug responses of single cells using optical tweezers
Light can be used to apply forces on single cells. Focused lasers have been used by physicists to tweeze particles and to manipulate them. These so called “optical tweezers” can be used as mechanical phenotyping tools for characterising the mechanics of materials and living objects.
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Mathematical model predicts drug concentration in the brain
Do medicines arrive in the right amount at the right spot in our brain? By making a model that depicts our brain in small 'brain blocks', Esmée Vendel tries to find an answer to this question. Her new, mathematical model predicts the concentration of medicines in the brain over time and space. Vendel…
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Drug development: how can we make it more efficient?
It takes years to develop new medicines, from the test tube to trials in humans. During the process it often happens that a drug that seems promising in the initial stage has to be dropped in a later phase. This costs time and money. Leiden University and the LUMC are working closely together to make…
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Jeanette Satink visits the Beijing Children's Legal Aid and Research Center
At the end of March Jeanette Satink visited the Beijing Children's Legal Aid and Research Center.
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Making everything we know computer-readable
Data and information should be stored in a way that computers can understand, says Barend Mons, professor of Biosemantics at the Leiden University Medical Center and Chair of the High Level Expert Group for the European Open Science Cloud. We speak with him about FAIR data, knowlets and nanopublicat…
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Discovery of antibiotics and their targets in multidrug-resistant bacteria
Global healthcare is on the verge of an antibiotic availability crisis as bacteria have evolved resistance to nearly all known antibacterials. Identifying new antibiotics that operate via novel modes-of-action is therefore of high priority.
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BioTherapeutics (MSc)
The master’s specialisation BioTherapeutics at Leiden University is a two-year programme which trains students in research in specific drug delivery techniques. The programme also examines the development of new therapeutic approaches to treat immune-based disorders, such as atherosclerosis, metabolic…
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Research with animals
At Leiden University, in both our biomedical and biological research, we use laboratory animals. Learn more about these specific areas of research and the goals we aim to achieve through these studies.
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In vivo modelling of Ewing sarcoma in zebrafish
Promotores: Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn & Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar-Jagalska
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ALICE Leiden Computer Cluster
ALICE is Leiden University's newest computing miracle. The computing cluster is a first step in the development of infrastructure for computational and data-intensive research that is accessible to everyone within Leiden University and the LUMC. This includes both experienced users of high-performance…
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Novel chemical tools for target validation in neuroinflammation
In what way can new tools and techniques be used to develop drug candidates for the treatment of neurological disorders?
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A new building block for the quantum computer
The race to build the first quantum computer is still ongoing, but Morten Bakker has made big step forward in that process with qubits. A qubit is a unit of quantum information that can be produced in large numbers on chips. Qubits capable of exchanging photons (light particles) could be used in the…
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Erik Danen appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery
As of April 1, 2018, Erik Danen has been appointed as Professor of Cancer drug target discovery at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). His discipline is cell biology of cancer, in which he focuses on the mechanisms underlying metastasis and therapy resistance.
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Katja Cardol
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
c.k.cardol@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5697
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Optimisation of first clinical studies in special populations: towards semi-physiological pharmacokinetic models
Promotor: M. Danhof, Co-promotores: J. Freijer, A. Yassen
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Kan een computer rechtspreken?
Kan een computer in de rechtszaal net zo goed uitspraak doen als een rechter? Hoogleraar Recht en informatica Jaap van den Herik vindt volmondig van wel. Hij legt het uit in een college van de Universiteit van Nederland.
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Innovation centre for drug development on Bio Science Park
International pharmaceuticals company Grünenthal is to open an innovation hub on the Leiden Bio Science Park. The hub will make it easier for scientists and drug developers to work together.