Projects
A promising COVID-19 vaccine candidate. KU Leuven
Within the group of prof. Johan Neyts, the vaccine team (under the scientific lead of dr. Kai Dallmeier) developed a promising COVID-19 vaccine candidate. This live-attenuated vaccine shows great promise in animal models. By this CoVax-PreC project granted by the COVID-19 fund, we want to study the longevity of the triggered immunity as well as the potential of the vaccine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission within a population (by means of a ...
Trust, legitimacy and intended compliance with COVID-19 exit strategy measures. University of Antwerp
Development of a new point-of-care COVID-19 screening using exhaled-breath volatilome analysis. KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: The inability to rapidly detect SARS-CoV-2 infection during the COVID-19 pandemic inspired strict lockdown policies, resulting in unprecedented economic adversity and clogging the health care sys-tem. As countries’ fears for second and third wave outbreaks are becoming reality, there is an urgent need for globally available, easy-to-perform, non-invasive, on-the-spot diagnostic tests to detect SARS-CoV-2 and to predict COVID-19 ...