On November 26th, 2020, the RISE workshop “The Productive Researcher” took place. The workshop was based on the third book (“The Productive Researcher”) written by Professor Mark Reed, who is a professor of Socio-Technical Innovation, an award-winning publicist and an expert at training researchers of all disciplines and career stages to become more productive. While working…
As of 1 November, Laura Heitman has been appointed full Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). Heitman has been working on the understanding and improvement of drug-receptor interactions in early drug discovery. ‘My…
Pharmacologist Liesbeth de Lange has won the Lewis B. Sheiner Lecturer Award from the International Society of Pharmacometrics (ISoP). As Professor of Predictive Pharmacology she is working, among other things, on a mathematical model that can predict drug concentrations in…
Women scientists can benefit from the LNVH Distinguished Women Scientists Fund. The LNVH is the Dutch Network for Women Professors. This travel grant is intended for female postdocs, up to 3 years after obtaining a PhD and residing and working…
Ingrid Weerts, MSc student Media Technology at the Faculty of Science has written an interesting article on misconceptions about Women in Science, illustrating why gender quotas are desperately needed. Click here to read the full article in DUB >>…
The image of the Leiden microboat traveled all over the world, from the BBC up to Arab shipping blogs. But Daniela Kraft’s research group has quite a few more different 3D printed microswimmers up their sleeves. Kraft receives a Vidi…
“A college class had two teaching assistants: one male and one female. At the end of the semester, the students scored the male TA higher on course evaluations, while the female TA got five times as many negative reviews. There’s…
