Flow Cytometry Core Facility Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Flow Cytometry Core Facility (FlowCore) has a verity of Flow Cytometry instruments of which users can be trained to use these instruments correctly to analyse and/or sort biological materials.
Flow Cytometry Core Facility (FlowCore) has a verity of Flow Cytometry instruments of which users can be trained to use these instruments correctly to analyse and/or sort biological materials.
The lab for NanoHealth and Optical Imaging performs research on the biomedical use of nanomaterials, with the primary focus on cancer research. The main research tracks are: studying the targeted delivery of nanomaterials in tumors, studying the therapeutic use of nanomaterials in cancer, either as a monotherapy or combined with more classical methods such as chemotherapy or immunotherapy.We further focus on developing optical imaging methods ...
Research topics of this unit are :
- research regarding the immunobiology of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for solid tumors in mouse models
- development of novel immunosuppressive drugs
- in vitro immuno-assays
- immunophenotyping of patients undergoing stem cell transplantation
The Department of Cell Biology (CYTO-VUB) is specialized in molecular and cellular liver research, with a main focus on the (patho)biology of hepatic stellate cells and liver progenitor cells. Prof. A. Geerts contributed to the first paper on isolation, purification and culturing of hepatic stellate cells (1) and is the author of a side scatter activated cell sorting method to purify freshly isolated hepatic stellate cell up to 95 - 100% (2). ...
In June 2016, the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy was founded at KU Leuven. In 2019 Prof An Coosemans, MD PhD, was appointed as the head of the lab. Currently, the lab counts one post-doc, four PhD students, one biostatistician and two lab technicians. The research philosophy of the lab is highly translational. By unraveling the immune biology in patients at diagnosis and during therapy/clinical trials (immune profiling), we ...
The research is focused on the cellular and molecular basis of immune tolerance mechanisms and failure. They study genetic basis of immune tolerance through the generation of murine models of disease and the analysis of genetic defects in patients with immune disorders. The laboratory specializes in the study of regulatory T cells, primary immunodeficiencies, diabetes and T cell development.
The Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology performs research related to the following topics:- Pathogenesis of thrombosis and bleeding. - Development of assays for the diagnosis of thrombosis and bleeding. – Signalling and transcription factor regulation in megakaryocytes and platelets. - Genetics for bleeding and thrombotic disorders. –(patho)physiology of megakaryopoiesis. – Role of transcription factors in endothelial heterogeneity. – ...
Crop protection research includes acarology, bacteriology, entomology, mycology, nematology and virology. The main topics are (i) the reliable identification and typing of the pathogens, (ii) better knowledge of the plant-pathogen relation, and (iii) developing alternative protection strategies using IPM in various plant cultivation systems.