Projects
Airway in a dish: advancing translational testing of cystic fibrosis rescue strategies. KU Leuven
The overall goal of this project is to create cutting-edge cellular models mimicking the airway pathology of human CF.by:
1) creating a biobank of airway cells from patients and assess the effect of drugs on CFTR in a personalized medicine approach,
2) improve airway cell models to evaluate the efficacy of gene-directed therapies better,
3) create an airway on multi-electrode array chip to assess biological effects of ...
Alien neurogenesis in a dish: novel techniques to study neurodevelopment in Octopus vulgaris KU Leuven
Within the phylum Mollusca the Cephalopoda arose approximately 530 million years ago. They comprise the shelled nautiloids and the soft-bodied coleoids, for example cuttlefish and the common octopus. All cephalopods share a basic organisation of the nervous system: a supra- and a suboesophageal brain mass surrounding the oesophagus, a pair of optic lobes laterally and an axial nerve chord spanning into the appendages. The octopus’ nervous ...
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease- the role of adipose tissue in the development of NASH: a translational study KU Leuven
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease in Western countries that could lead to serious health problems including liver failure, cancer or death. This disease is paralleled by the global obesity pandemic affecting a growing number of people. It therefore comes as no surprise that inflammatory events occurring in the adipose tissue play a central role in the pathogenesis of this disease. We ...
Iranian PhD student, Siavash Manafi Khajeh Pasha Ghent University
Its main task is the comprehensive analysis of the measurements taken during the field trial zettingsvloeiing in the Westerschelde in 2014. He, building on the first analysis conducted by Deltares. The original goal was to determine whether there during zettingsvloeiingsproef there was a '' verwekingsvloeiing '' or '' bresvloeiing '. Because not really has encountered a large-scale flow, that question seems to be already more or less answered ...
DISH: Detection of food Intake using Smart devices in Healthcare KU Leuven
Award in the context of impulse financing for research on the detection of food intake by smart appliances and specifically for home care.
Liver and systemic haemodynamic alterations, noninvasive diagnostic markers and potential pathophysiological mechanisms for NAFLD and NASH: a large longitudinal cohort study. University of Antwerp
One for all and all for cash? An inquiry into sustainable social network and collective action effects of cash transfers in rural Uganda. University of Antwerp
Uptake: Socio-spatial inequality among families with children with disabilities who are entitled to cash benefits and welfare services. KU Leuven
Our aim for this project is to strengthen the basis for future international funding e.g. from the EU, by involving researchers from Belgium, France, and the US in our expert advisory board for the socio-spatial inequality among families with children with disabilities who are entitled to cash benefits and welfare services.
Bridging knowledge to the field: an evaluation of the agronomic potential of Robusta coffee genetic resources as a cash crop in the Congo Basin KU Leuven
Coffee is an important source of income for small coffee farmers in the South and is traded worldwide as a soft commodity. The economy of coffee production is influenced by the ecology, climate change, the biodiversity, the soil fertility and the socio-economic conditions of the production system. The COFFEEBRIDGE-project (BRAIN-be 2.0 - BELSPO) aims to integrate the expertise from different disciplines to revive a sustainable coffee ...