Introduction
The Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM) has a longstanding tradition in tropical and cosmopolitan virus research. The Unit of Virology was home to the discovery of Ebola virus in 1976 and the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus SIVcpz in 1989 as the origin of HIV-1.
The Unit of Virology, led by Prof. Kevin K. Ariën, is dedicated to improving the diagnosis, the understanding of the (re-)emergence and ...
The research of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neurology focuses on cognitive domains selective attention, language and semantic memory.
The research team of Prof. Vandamme is investigating factors influencing antiviral treatment response in HIV infected patients with a special focus on the impact of virus drug resistance. The team is responsible for drug resistance testing in clinical practice at the local AIDS Reference Laboratory. Another research topic involves the evolution and molecular epidemiology of human viruses, seeking to understand in particular the origin and ...
This unit designs and develops antiviral and antitumor agents, primarily nucleoside, nucleotide or oligonucleotide analogues but also other substances which interact with enzymes involved in nucleic acid metabolism (i.e. DNA polymerase, reverse transcriptase, thymidine kinase, thymidylate kinase, nucleoside phosphorylase, dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, adenosine deaminase, S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase, IMP dehydrogenase, OMP ...
The division Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy aims at developing novel therapeutics and diagnostics starting from basic research into the molecular cause of disease and employing the most advanced biomedical technologies. Research can be basic, applied or technological; in all cases our research aims at future applications in medicine.
Major disease areas are AIDS and Parkinson's disease. Other interests are gene therapy of cystic ...
The service neurology focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the nervous system (brain, spinal cord, spinal roots, nerves) and muscles.
The Research Group Experimental Neurology consists of 7 laboratories: Laboratory for Neurobiology (Vesalius Research Center); Laboratory for Cognitive Neurology; Laboratory for Parkinson Research; Laboratory for Neuroimmunology; Laboratory for Epilepsy Research; Laboratory for Molecular Neurobiomarker Research; Laboratory for Neuropathology; Laboratory for myopathies and neuropathies.