Honored to have won the 2022 Guiding Star Award from TOPX Network! Also congratulations to the other guiding and rising star award winners. It was a great day!!

We finalized the program for our first year of @led3network Talks. We already had amazing talks by Craig Crews and Carolyn Bertozzi and look forward to Kawamura Group, Tom Grossmann, Christian Heinis, Dario Neri, @gbernardes_chem, Christian Ottmann, Dirk H. Trauner and Kathrin Lang.

To all researchers that heard this week that their NWO #VENI grant got rejected in the pre-application round, and think that this is because of the new application format (narrative CV +Key output): Send me a DM - I'm collecting examples to file a complaint to NWO!

European Research Council (ERC) funded #postdoc position in my group We are looking for a molecular biologist excited to help developing synthetic tools that can control gene transcription. Universiteit Leiden LACDR Leiden Science Please RT!!! And apply :-) universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2…

Attention peptide chemists in the Netherlands! Be aware that a bad batch of "peptide synthesis grade" DMF is in circulation. Appears to be highly amine contaminated and has caused us much frustration recently. Feel free to DM me if you'd like to know the vendor and batch number.

I am looking for a #Postdoc! Do you have #molecular_biology experience and are excited about developing top edge #drug_discovery modalities in a young team pomplunlab.com/open-positions/? Join us LACDR Leiden Science Please RT! nature.com/naturecareers/…

This morning I was a guest at #Sleutelstad radio to talk about my research in the context of Europen City of Science #Leiden2022. Thanks for having me!

EFMC Short Course 2023 Small Molecule Protein Degraders 📆 April 23-26, 2023 📍 Oegstgeest (near Leiden), The Netherlands 📣 Meet the Speakers on our website! 🌐 efmcshortcourses.org #medchem #chembio #drugdesign #shortcourse

The result of a great collaboration is out! A paper where structural biology, chemistry, biochemistry, in vitro and in vivo pharmacology meet on the CB2 receptor. #GPCRs #bindingkinetics Thanks to all collaborators! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Leuk artikel in de universitaire nieuwsbrief over het resultaat van een mooie samenwerking met @mariovdstelt met fantastisch werk van o.a. mijn aio Jara Bouma. Leiden Early Drug Discovery & Development (LED3) lnkd.in/eAsjeRNK

EFMC short course 2023 on Small Molecule Degraders has started. A nice mix of lectures and group discussions on this highly exciting and timely topic! EFMC Organized by: Alessio Ciulli and Suzanne O'Connor

The 17th short Course on Medicinal Chemistry on Small molecule degraders is over. It was a great success! Next week we'll start preparations for the 18th!! EFMC

The RESOLUTE  final conference “Unlocking Transporters for Drug Discovery” will take place from 27 – 29 September in Vienna.  There are reserved slots for talks and posters selected from the abstracts submitted. Register via: re-solute.eu/conference. Limited seats available!

I really enjoyed the barbecue and sunny weather with my team in my backyard. Looking forward to next year already! 🌞

Great to meet an make friends at #GRC on "Cannabinoid Function in the CNS"! Uwe Grether, Alessia Ligresti Pal Pacher

Enjoyable way of examining a thesis! 🌞