Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have pioneered a computational approach to designing peptides that target Bax, a key regulating protein of programmed neuronal cell death. Their study, recently published in ...

A team of researchers from the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have developed a powerful computational approach for modelling of liquids and vapours. A paper in Physical Review Letters describes how they ...

An international team of researchers led by Prof. Bob van der Zwaan of the University of Amsterdam and TNO Energy and Materials Transition have quantified the role of the ‘hydrogen economy’ in making our society more ...

In a paper in Angewandte Chemie, researchers of the Flow Chemistry group at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences report an efficient and practical electrochemical cyclopropanation method in ...

Researchers at the Homogeneous, Supramolecular and Bio-inspired Catalysis group led by Prof. Joost Reek have devised a novel concept for catalysis which enables transient control during the course of a reaction. ...

In a paper in Nature Communications, researchers at the Flow Chemistry group led by Prof. Timothy Noël present a novel and efficient deoxygenative photochemical alkylation method for transforming secondary amides ...

In a joint project, researchers at the University of Amsterdam and KWR Water Research Institute have developed and tested a novel analytical procedure for the environmental analysis of persistent and mobile organic ...

In a paper just published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling polycotton ...

In an international cooperation, researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam and Zurich have tested the limits of molecular photocages that can release their cargo upon activation with near-infrared light. In a ...

Researchers at the Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a groundbreaking, sustainable method for synthesizing benzyl-tert-butylamine, a compound widely used in pharmaceuticals and fine ...

Paul Ferguson has been named professor by special appointment at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam as of 15 March. His chair, ‘Separation of Biomacromolecules, with an emphasis on Sustainable ...

With their pitch 'Plastic of the future is made of sugar', Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter of Industrial Sustainable Chemistry together with Prof. Marja Lamoree of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam hope to win the Klokhuis Science ...

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has appointed 11 new fellows to their Faculty of Impact program. Among them are two researchers of the UvA's Faculty of Science: Roland Berdaguer (SILS) and Florenz Buß (HIMS). ...

Prof. Timothy Noel of the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has been awarded a Vici grant by the Dutch research council NWO. Worth 1.5 million euros, the Vici is one of the ...

Stefano Bonciolini of the Flow Chemistry group won a poster prize at the 5th Swiss Industrial Chemistry Symposium held 31 January in Basel, organized by the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS).

In a paper just published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling polycotton ...

On 8 Januari, Dr Antonio Pulcinella obtained his doctorate with the distinction ‘cum laude’ after defending his thesis on ‘Photocatalytic strategies for the valorization of feedstock chemicals in batch and flow’. ...

Dr Giulia Giuibertoni of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has been awarded € 40,000 ‘Take-off’ funding from the Dutch Research Council NWO. Together with Prof. Sander Woutersen, she will use the ...

A multidisciplinary research team coordinated by Maarten van Bommel, professor of Conservation Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been awarded 900,000 euros funding by the Dutch Research Council NWO ...

Dr Jocelyne Vreede of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences (HIMS) is part of a research team that has just been awarded funding from the Dutch Research Council NWO to take the next steps in developing ...