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Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology Ghent University

Current scientific activities in the department include ADHD and PTSD in the domain of child and adolescent psychiatry, and eating disorders, suicidal behaviour en functional neuroimaging of psychopathology in adult psychiatrie, including the study of impulsivity and anxiety using brain metabolism and perfusion, cognitive testing and study of serotonine transporter and receptors. Research on the efficacy of treatment of diverse psychiatric ...

Laboratory for Medical and Molecular Oncology Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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As part of the Oncology Research Center, the Laboratory for Medical & Molecular Oncology (LMMO) at the VUB Faculty of Medicine engages in several major research initiatives: to study pancreatic cancer biology (Prof. Dr. Ilse Rooman), to study cancer immunotherapy including autologous dendritic cell therapies (Prof. Dr. Bart Neyns) and to advance targeted therapies for cancer in genomically defined patients (personalized medicine, ...

Laboratory of Medical Microbiology (LMM) University of Antwerp

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The Laboratory of Medical Microbiology (LMM) has a world reputation in studying antibiotic use and resistance, and improving diagnostic tests. The LMM is the coordinator of several European projects, such as European Surveillance for Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC), Genomics to Combat Resistance against Antibiotics in Community-acquired LRTI in Europe (GRACE), Translational Research on Antimicrobial resistance and Community-acquired infections ...

Leuven Medical Technology Centre KU Leuven

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Leuven Health Technology Centre (L-HTC) will focus on technology enhanced active and healthy living. In the L-HTC vision new technology will be developed for active movement in the framework of lifestyle applications, rather than for sport performance applications. This choice is inspired by the societal importance of an active lifestyle for prevention, i.e. for keeping people healthy (primary prevention), reducing risks for chronically ill ...

Medical Biochemistry University of Antwerp

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Proteolytic regulation of biological processes by endopeptidases and exopeptidases in human: isolation, expression, molecular characterization, functional exploration in vitro and in vivo, effects of inhibition, clinical and diagnostic applications, therapeutic drug target discovery. * Mechanism and pathophysiological role of the carboxypeptidase U pathway in fibrinolysis; study of related metallocarboxypeptidases (dirk.hendriks@ua.ac.be). * ...

Medical Biochemistry Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Diabetes mellitus is in many cases a disease state of the pancreatic insulin-producing beta cells, which are either destroyed by an auto-immune assault (type 1 diabetes) or fail to produce and secrete sufficient amounts of insulin under different physiological conditions (type 2 diabetes). Reseach performed within the VUB-unit BIOV is situated within the Diabetes Research Centre (DRC) and has as general aim to better understand how normal ...

Medical Electronics University of Antwerp

Multidisciplinary scientific research at the Medical Electronics Lab consists of the following topics in the field of functional electrical stimulation: - Micro-mechanical design of multi-channel electrodes for stimulation of nerve fibers and registration of neural responses: a multi-channel electrode consists of a carrier with several (up to tens) electrode contacts. This allows the stimulation with small electrical currents at well-defined ...