Organisations
Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy (Rega Institute) KU Leuven
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 ...
Molecular Digestive Oncology KU Leuven
The laboratory for Molecular Digestive Oncology focusses on gastro-intestinal cancers and currently has two types of activities:
- large molecular annotation projects, aimed at better describing the overall molecular identity of GI tumors and potential subtypes. Activities here include in depth molecular annotation of tumor series, state of the art bioinformatics for subtype derivation and biological annotation, comparisons of ...
VIB Metabolomics Core Leuven Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Alliance for Modulation in Epilepsy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The common research line of the Alliance for Neuromodulation in Epilepsy (AMIE) research group is preclinical, clinical and translational scientific research in the field of epilepsy and its major comorbidities (ie, anxiety and major depression, learning and memory disorders, brain infarction). The researchers concerned attempt to understand the pathophysiology of epilepsy, characterize cellular and network changes, and consequently develop ...
Cardio & organ systems Hasselt University
Cell Differentiation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Our team wants to find ways to generate new insulin-producing, glucose-regulated "beta" cells that can be used for transplantation in diabetes patients and ways to regenerate beta cells in the pancreas. We study rodent experimental models as well as human cells. The first aim is based on tissue engineering starting from: 1. Exocrine pancreatic cells: reprogramming of adult exocrine cells to endocrine cells, or transdifferentiation in culture. ...
Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology KU Leuven
The action of steroid hormones (more specifically androgens and vitamin D) and of polypeptide hormones (more specifically calcium regulating hormones); the regulation of these hormones and their significance in human disease; the role of these hormones in normal and abnormal cellular differentiation. Development of new techniques for the measurement of hormones, hormone-binding proteins and hormone receptors. Development of new vitamin D ...