The Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) belongs to the Clinical Sciences Department at ITM. It is mandated to manage and support non-commercial clinical trials (except phase I) and intervention researches carried out overseas and addressing health problems of developing countries. It has been fully operational since the start of 2007, and it is supported by the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation of the Flemish Government.
The CTU ...
The staff of the Laboratory for Clinical Infectious and Inflammatory Disorders consists of dedicated clinicians involved in the patient care of the General Internal Medicine Department, including Emergency Care and Intensive Care. Hence, the research efforts have tight links with clinical care and provide a dynamic interplay between bench and bedside. Examples of topics include: hepatic critical care: detoxification devices and hemodynamics; ...
The Leuven Coordinating Centre (LCC) is an academic research centre with more than 25 years of experience in delivering services for clinical research. LCC conducts phase II, III and IV clinical trials in all therapeutic areas with the main focus on phase II and III trials in cardiovascular diseases and also has a broad experience in setting up and maintaining registries.
The research group Clinical Digestive Oncology focuses on:
Clinical bacteriology
• Study the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on pneumococcal disease epidemiology
• Next-generation sequencing (NGS) strategy by means of Illumina sequencing to characterize S. pneumoniae and M. tuberculosis strains including genotyping, serotyping, resistance, virulence detection and strain relatedness.
• Optimization of microbiological methods for diagnosis of orthopedic implant-related ...
Patients are the focal point of the research of our department. Our research fields include the diagnostics, prevention and treatment of the individual patient, with emphasis on tropical and infectious diseases including zoonoses, hiv/aids and tuberculosis.
Our expertise lies in descriptive and analytical pathology, laboratory medicine, pharmacology, medical decision sciences and clinical epidemiology. We also carry out clinical ...
The area of interest of the research group Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy is the safe and efficient use of medicinal products – including small molecules, biologicals and vaccines – in humans.
The department of Clinical Sciences