During this symposium, all current LACDR PhD-Students presented a poster. Additionally, a PhD per division presented his or her research in full during the LACDR PhD Competition. The winners will represent LACDR in the National Competition during the FIGON Medicine Days. Two leaders in the field of Drug Research provided the Key Lectures and afterwards, the LACDR Progress Report 2009 was presented. 

The Spring Symposium was held on Tuesday, April 13th 2010 in the Auditorium of the VU in Amsterdam.  

Key Lectures by:  

Prof.dr. Piet Herdewijn (Catholic University Leuven/Rega Institute) 
“Oligonucleotides as novel Therapeutics: The Past and Future”

Dr. Richard Janssen (Galapagos B.V.)
“From RNA interference to clinical trials: the road towards a first–in-class drug for rheumatoid arthritis”

This year's Winners of the PhD Competition are: 

Jan Simon Boerma, Division of Molecular Toxicology, Amsterdam

"Application of a P450 BM3 mutant as tool for the generation of protein adducts"

Gerard van Westen, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, Leiden

“Dynamic Analysis of Crystal Structures: From Snapshots and Movies to Drugs”