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Changing enzymes for clean energy and disease prevention
They can play a role in metabolic disorders and can break down tough plant fibers: β-glycosidases are enzymes that play many roles in nature. Fredj Ben Bdira changed these enzymes in order to enhance the production of clean energy and to improve the treatment of patients with metabolic diseases.
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Five Leiden professors elected to KNAW
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected five Leiden professors from different disciplines as new members. Two of the new members are women.
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Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry awards PhD project to David Klein
Leiden based chemistry student and chess grandmaster proposes molecular system for development of artificial leaf
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Two cum laude distinctions for storing renewable energy
Both Leon Jacobse and Thom Hersbach from Marc Koper's research group obtained their PhDs cum laude. They both investigated changes on the surface of a platinum electrode. Jacobse studied this at a positive voltage, Hersbach at a negative voltage. Platinum has the potential to convert renewable energy…
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A step closer to sustainable energy from seawater
The research group headed by Leiden chemist Marc Koper has discovered a catalyst that minimizes the production of chlorine gas during salt water electrolysis. The invention can enable the direct production of hydrogen from seawater. The article has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical…
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From research to practice: Leiden researchers awarded European grant
Various Leiden researchers have been awarded a European grant to explore the commercial or societal potential of previous research.
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors
Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have been awarded a Spinoza Prize and Judi Mesman a Stevin Prize. They received their prizes on 13 October.
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FameLab: young scientists take the stage
In FameLab contestants explain their research to the public in a three-minute presentation – without using PowerPoint or other presentation tools. The Leiden heats of this international communications competition will be held on 7 March. Anyone is welcome to come and watch!
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Stephan Hacker elected into the board of Assistant Professor Network Netherlands
Dr. Stephan Hacker, an assistant professor in the department of Molecular Physiology at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry of Leiden University has been elected secretary of the board of APNet, the Assistant Professor Network Netherlands. Hacker will take a leading role in the young network organisation…
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Shell works with Leiden and VU researchers on quantum computer algorithms for chemistry
Shell cooperates with theoretical physicists and chemists of Leiden University to research how quantum computer algorithms can help simulate complex molecules.
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Seven Leiden researchers win €1.5m Vici grant
Seven Leiden researchers have each been awarded a Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This will enable them to form a research group and develop their own innovative line of research.
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Researcher teaching in the classroom: ‘We need to imitate nature more closely’
How can we supply the growing world population with sustainable energy? At Laurens College in Rotterdam, Prof. Marc Koper speaks with the students about the crucial role of chemistry in the energy transition. Guest classes like this are a good way for school students to learn about the academic world,…
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Will soap and sunlight solve the energy problem?
A consortium of international researchers comes with a unique solution to the energy problem. By mimicking photosynthesis, they aim to produce sustainable fuels out of sunlight, water, and CO2. Their secret? ‘Soap bubbles’, says Leiden chemist Sylvestre Bonnet, who is part of the consortium.
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Nobel Prize for quantum physics: the circle for Bell's theorem is complete
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics goes to quantum physics research. The prize will be awarded on December 10 in Stockholm. Physicist Bas Hensen explains why this is important and how his research in Leiden relates to it.
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Oncode Accelerator launched: patients at the centre of innovative cancer drug development
Providing each cancer patient with the right treatment remains a challenge. Oncode Accelerator aims to change this by innovating the way we develop cancer treatments, thus ensuring the patient is at the heart of the process.
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young researchers from Leiden
The ERC has awarded a Starting Grant to five promising researchers from Leiden. Two are from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, one is from the Faculty of Humanities/Governance and Global Affairs, one from the LUMC and one from the Faculty of Science.
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From lockdown to the lab: Leiden PhD researcher develops ‘decoy molecule’ to slow down coronavirus
While the Netherlands was in lockdown because of the coronavirus, PhD candidate Koen Rijpkema began his research into the same virus. In the lab, he developed molecules that can inhibit an important viral enzyme.
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Chemotherapy without side effects: Matthijs Hakkennes helps find the needle in the haystack faster
Chemotherapy, but without hair loss or extreme fatigue. It may be possible if the toxic drug only becomes active where it is ‘switched on’ by light. Matthijs Hakkennes has helped bring that idea closer to reality and obtained his PhD cum laude. ‘I received many thank-you emails from China and Bangla…
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Grants for research on immune cells, vegan cheese and PFAS detection
Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognised through grants, prizes and other awards. We highlight some of these achievements below.
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Preparing for the next pandemic: scientists discover a new class of influenza antivirals
Researchers from Leiden University, University of York, University of Barcelona/IQTCUB/ICREA and The Francis Crick Institute report a new class of experimental compounds that powerfully block influenza viruses. The findings offer a potential new strategy for treating flu infections and preparing for…
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What does a cell eat? This new tool makes it visible
What if you could watch a single cell eat in real time? This could answer questions about diseases such as cancer. PhD candidate Yixuan Wang has developed a glowing chemical tool that makes this possible, revealing how living cells take in nutrients.
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‘To truly understand the brain, we must understand the chemistry’
How do fats and enzymes in the brain contribute to multiple sclerosis? In his PhD research, Daan van der Vliet combined chemistry and neuroscience to gain new insights into how brain disorders develop.
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Funding for green fertilisers, high-energy particles and a circular power plant
Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognised through grants, prizes and other awards. We highlight some of these achievements below.
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New clue to severe MS progression: ‘Overloaded cleanup cells’ in the brain
Researcher Daan van der Vliet, together with colleagues from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Leiden University and Utrecht University, has discovered an important mechanism that may be linked to severe cases of multiple sclerosis (MS): the brain contains large numbers of abnormal immune…
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A synthetic vaccine against meningococcus
Leiden chemists recreated the bacterial capsule of meningococcus in the lab. With a few modifications, these capsules can serve as an extra safe and effective vaccine against these notorious bacteria, which can cause, for example, meningitis. PhD candidate Jacopo Enotarpi and his team published the…
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Release and transport of endocannabinoids
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Bioorthogonal tools to study fatty acid uptake in immune cells
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Exploring the Versatility of Human β-Glucosidases and Related Glycosylated Metabolites with Novel Chemical Tools
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Exploring Reactive Interfaces: Nanoplastics, Catalysts, and 2D Materials
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Design and Synthesis of Inhibitors and Probes for Sulfoquinovosidases and Xylanases
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Unravelling Glycosylation Reaction Mechanisms
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Graphene transmembrane nanofluidic devices: Fabrication strategies and ion transport
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Advances in 2D Material Synthesis, Transfer, and Device Integration
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A chemical biology approach to explore lipid metabolism in neurological disorders
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Poprhyrin-based metal-organic frameworks for the electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction
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Employing and Developing Operando Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
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Operando Spectro-electrochemical investigations of Pt and Pt-alloys as Fuel Cell Catalysts
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Design of branched swainsonines as selective Golgi alpha-mannosidase inhibitors
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The versatility of asymmetric aminoethyl-tetrazines in bioorthogonal chemistry
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Kinetic and Non-Kinetic Effects for the Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction on NiFeOOH Electrocatalysts
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State-resolved studies of CO2 gas-surface reactions
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Design and Synthesis of Click Lipids as Tools to Study Immune Cell Metabolism
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Temperature and pressure effects on the electrochemical CO2 reduction
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Towards near-infrared light-activated combination chemotherapy
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Design and Synthesis of Immunomodulatory Peptide Conjugates
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Transglycosylation of N-acylethanolamines
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Unveiling the electrolyte effects of CO2 electroreduction to CO and H2 Evolution from the interfacial pH perspective
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Getting the electrons right for O2-on-metal systems
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Microglial lipid metabolism: a delicate balance
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Microstructural and Metabolic Alterations in the Zebrafish Brain Induced by Toll-Like Receptor 2 Deficiency
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