The final keynote lecture of the 6th Virtual ChemBioTalks will be given by Michelle Chang (@mchanggroup.bsky.social). She will talk about: "Discovery and engineering of new enzymes for biocatalysis" Register for free: events.zoom.us/ev/Ag... #ChemBio #Chemsky Chemistry Europe
Leiden Early Drug Discovery & Development (LED3)
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LED3 is a hub of scientists working on early drug discovery at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, the Institute of Biology Leiden and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. @LED3hub@mstdn.science
The sixth talk of the 6th Virtual ChemBioTalks will be given by Luke Lavis (Luke Lavis). He will talk about: "Illuminating biological processes using chemistry" Register for free: events.zoom.us/ev/Ag... #ChemBio #ChemSky Chemistry Europe
Congratulations, Ed, Nicolas and @sebastianpomplun.bsky.social!
Der Klaus-Grohe-Preis 2026 geht erstmals an zwei Forscher: Edward Tate (London) macht Fettmoleküle zum Werkzeug gegen Krebs, Nicolas Winssinger (Genf) baut schaltbare Wirkstoffe aus Nukleinsäuren: www.gdch.app/article/klaus-grohe-preis-2026-erstmals-an-zwei-forscher-2026-07
Der Klaus-Grohe-Preis 2026 geht erstmals an zwei Forscher: Edward Tate (London) macht Fettmoleküle zum Werkzeug gegen Krebs, Nicolas Winssinger (Genf) baut schaltbare Wirkstoffe aus Nukleinsäuren: www.gdch.app/article/klaus-grohe-preis-2026-erstmals-an-zwei-forscher-2026-07
The fourth talk of the 6th Virtual ChemBioTalks will be given by Nina Hartrampf (Hartrampf Lab). She will talk about: "Deciphering Phosphorylation-Dependent MYC Interactions with Chemical Protein Synthesis" Register for free: events.zoom.us/ev/Ag... #ChemBio #ChemSky
We are happy to have Oncode Accelerator as a sponsor and co-organizer for #ABPP2027. We are looking forward to working with them on an amazing event! Sign up for our mailing list: fd24.formdesk.com/universiteit... Interested in sponsoring? Reach out at abpp2027@outlook.com #ChemBio #ChemSky #ABPP
Very excited for the #ABPP conference in Leiden on June 2nd to 4th, 2027. Great news that we have Oncode Accelerator on board. Are you also interested in being visible at this event? Reach out at abpp2027@outlook.com for sponsoring options. Mailing list: fd24.formdesk.com/universiteit...
We are happy to have Oncode Accelerator as a sponsor and co-organizer for #ABPP2027. We are looking forward to working with them on an amazing event! Sign up for our mailing list: fd24.formdesk.com/universiteit... Interested in sponsoring? Reach out at abpp2027@outlook.com #ChemBio #ChemSky #ABPP
Excited to share that our project has been awarded an #ERC #PoC Grant! This will help us translate discoveries from fundamental research into practical tools with real-world impact. Thanks to everyone who has contributed along the way, and to the support from @erc.europa.eu @unileiden.bsky.social
The round 1 results of the 2026 ERC Proof of Concept Grant call are out! 🎉 182 researchers receive a total of €27.3 million to explore the commercial and societal potential of their ERC-funded findings. Read more 👉 buff.ly/K8GXgbs #ERCPoC #FrontierResearch @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
Very much looking forward to hearing about the exciting work of Hui Ye at the 6th Virtual @chembiotalks.bsky.social on September 29th. Register now for free, if you do not want to miss it: events.zoom.us/ev/Ag1AUcW3n... (1/2)
The second talk of the 6th Virtual ChemBioTalks will be given by Hui (Vivian) Ye. She will talk about: "Chemoproteomics maps binding targets for bioactive ligands" Register for free: events.zoom.us/ev/Ag... #ChemBio #ChemSky Chemistry Europe
The second talk of the 6th Virtual ChemBioTalks will be given by Hui (Vivian) Ye. She will talk about: "Chemoproteomics maps binding targets for bioactive ligands" Register for free: events.zoom.us/ev/Ag... #ChemBio #ChemSky Chemistry Europe
Spinoza Award for Chemical Biologist Hermen Overkleeft from Leiden University! We are extremely excited that Hermen Overkleeft from the Leiden Institute of Chemistry and our @led3hub.bsky.social was awarded the highly prestigious Spinoza Award. (1/5) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...
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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Amazing news that Hermen Overkleeft of @led3hub.bsky.social and @leidenscience.bsky.social was awarded the Spinoza Award! The Spinoza Award is the highest scientific Award of the Netherlands. www.nwo.nl/en/professor... #ChemBio #ChemSky #Glycotime #DrugDiscovery #Award
Professor Hermen Overkleeft | NWO
Hermen Overkleeft is known worldwide as one of the founders of chemical biology. This is the field that designs molecules to analyse biological processes. As a professor of bio-organic chemistry at th...
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Inspiring @led3hub.bsky.social Lecture by @madelonmaurice.bsky.social. She talked about SureTACs as a modality for lysosomal degradation of membrane proteins by engaging membrane-bound E3 ligases using antibodies. worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/searc... #ChemSky #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery #TPD
We are very happy that @madelonmaurice.bsky.social from @umcutrecht.bsky.social and @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social visited us today for a LED3 Lecture. She talked about "SureTACs: A novel modality for targeted degradation of cell surface proteins". #DrugDiscovery #TPD #Degraders #ChemBio #ChemSky
Check out the program for the @led3hub.bsky.social Lectures of the coming academic year. It would be great to see many of you there!
We are excited that we could again invite a world-class program of speakers for the LED3 Lectures 2026/2027. Full program below. All current information can be found here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l... Let us know in the comments, which lectures you are mot looking forward to! (1/8)
We are excited that we could again invite a world-class program of speakers for the LED3 Lectures 2026/2027. Full program below. All current information can be found here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/l... Let us know in the comments, which lectures you are mot looking forward to! (1/8)
It was amazing to see the breadth of exciting science in early drug discovery and development that was presented at the @led3hub.bsky.social PhD/Postdoc Symposium.
We celebrated our amazing, interdisciplinary early drug discovery community at the 3rd LED3 PhD/Postdoc symposium with more than 120 participants from all of our institutes, the Leiden University Medical Center, the Leiden Bio Science Park and beyond. (1/4)
I am very happy that Yorick van Aalst represented our group with a great talk at the 3rd @led3hub.bsky.social PhD/postdoc symposium. He gave exciting insights into his project on mining the human proteome for druggable pockets. #ChemSky #ChemBio #DrugDiscovery #ProudPI
We celebrated our amazing, interdisciplinary early drug discovery community at the 3rd LED3 PhD/Postdoc symposium with more than 120 participants from all of our institutes, the Leiden University Medical Center, the Leiden Bio Science Park and beyond. (1/4)
Big thanks to talented #PhD candidates Jakob van der Wall and Georgia Andriopoulou for representing our lab @led3hub.bsky.social Early #DrugDiscovery symposium yesterday, sharing how #chemoproteomics and new #chemistry can tackle traditional challenging #cancer & #immune targets! #chembiol
Very insightful keynote lecture by Howard Hang from @scripps.edu at the 3rd @led3hub.bsky.social PhD/Postdoc Symposium. He talked about his group's impressive research on using chemical tools to better understand host-microbe interactions in health and disease. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very happy that Menno Valk represented our group at the @led3hub.bsky.social Symposium with a Flash Talk on his project, in which he uses base editing to study the essentiality of individual amino acid residues in bacteria. Make sure to visit him at his poster to discuss his exciting project!
Johanna Erbani gave an exciting talk at the @led3hub.bsky.social Symposium. She talked about her work on better understanding lipid-laden macrophages and their involvement in tumorigenesis of glioblastomas. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Great talk by Aukje Beers at the @led3hub.bsky.social Symposium. She talked about her work on new chemical tools for studying the function of the glycerophosphodiesterase GDE4 with important implications in pediatric neural cancers.
We are very happy that Howard Hang from @scripps.edu visited us today to give the keynote lecture at the 3rd LED3 PhD/Postdoc symposium. He talked about "Chemical dissection of microbiota mechanisms in health and disease".
Mia Urem gave an exciting talk at the 3rd @led3hub.bsky.social Symposium about her work on a new antibiotic class that selectively targets PolC in Gram-positive bacteria such as C. difficile. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am very excited that our group is broadly represented at the 3rd @led3hub.bsky.social PhD/postdoc symposium by Yorick van Aalst (full talk), Menno Valk (Flash Talk) and Miriam van der Veer (poster). I am looking forward to a great day full of exciting science.
The 3rd @led3hub.bsky.social PhD/Postdoc Symposium is off to a great start with a talk by Vladyslav Lysenko from the group of Nathaniel Martin. He talked about his work on Evybactin analogs as potent new antibiotics targeting DNA gyrase. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Bart van Lieshout gave an interesting talk at the @led3hub.bsky.social symposium. He talked about his work on a zebrafish model to model the PKPD parameters of antituberculosis drugs on the example of bedaquiline. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...