9 search results for “chemical biology” in the Staff website
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Spinoza Prize for chemical biologist Hermen Overkleeft
Professor of Bio-organic Chemistry Hermen Overkleeft develops innovative methods to study disease processes. This increases our understanding of the human body and enables the development of new medicines. Overkleeft has been awarded the Spinoza Prize: the most prestigious scientific award in the Ne…
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Madeline Kavanaghm.e.kavanagh@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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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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Hermen Overkleefth.s.overkleeft@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275037
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Anthe Janssena.p.a.janssen@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Berend Gagesteinb.gagestein@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274410
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Tom van der Welt.van.der.wel@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273534
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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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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.