News & lectures

Departmental day June 14, 2013 (15-18 h; M2.01 DDW)
 - Utrecht Award for Excellence in Pharmaceutical Research
 - UIPS PhD lecture and publication competitions
 
Enrico Mastrobattista is awarded the Galenus Research Prize 2013
(Press release)

Eight PhD candidates with China Scholarship Council come to UIPS.
 - 4 have chosen Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology
 - 2 have chosen Pharmaceutics
 - 1 has chosen Pharmacology
 - 1 has chosen Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology

Top Publications

• Position paper on Advanced drug delivery systems from Profs. Crommelin and Florence. Int.J.Pharm. (February 2013)
• Nature article on stem cells pluripotency, from a Dutch team, including our colleagues Mischerikow, Altelaar and Heck. Nature 495, 516-519 (2013)
• Nature News is focusing on an article on a Leishmaniasis study, involving Thomas Dorlo and Jos Beijnen. http://www.nature.com/news/leishmaniasis-drug-fails-a-fifth-of-patients-1.12553
• Patrick Souverein and Ton de Boer have participated in an Utrecht-Amsterdam nortriptylin study combining statistical with mechanistic data. Eur. Heart J. (February 2013)  
• Michelle Putzeist (Leufkens group) has analysed why certain drugs fail to be approved. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 11, 903-904 (December 2012) 
• Maarten Altelaar (Heck group) has published a perspective on proteomics. Nature Reviews Genetics 14, 35-48 (January 2013) 

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