The 15th International Activity-Based Protein Profiling Meeting will be held in Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands from June 2nd to 4th, 2027. This meeting will discuss the latest advancements in prot...

Eleven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an Open Competition Domain Science ENW XS grant by the Dutch Research Council for their research projects. They are researching how to make ...

PhD Candidate in Chemistry, Proteomics, and ImmunologyThe Leiden Institute of Chemistry is looking for a PhD candidate to pursue research on the development of immune-modulatory drugs to treat infecti...

Microbial pathogens continue to plague human health and develop resistance to our current frontline treatments. Over the last few decades, there has b…

Is it a coincidence that three chemists from the same department have each independently received a ZonMw grant? 'No,' the researchers agree in unison. 'The role of chemistry in medical biology is bec...

On the 24th of March 2025, World TB day, we organize a symposium to connect the Dutch scientific community working on mycobacterial infections. We will cover all aspects of tuberculous or non-tubercul...

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Global antibiotic scarcity looms owing to bacterial resistance. Now the discovery of a class of allosteric inhibitors targeting DNA gyrase—essential for bacteria—yields a compound LEI-800 that exhibit...

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Cytochrome bd from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtbd) is a menaquinol oxidase that has gained interest as an antibiotic target because of its importanc…