Projects
Vacature voor een doctoraat in de geschiedenis van de geneeskunde en het milieu KU Leuven
In this project I will study the environmental history of colonial healthcare, medicine and disease in colonial Congo (1900-1960). The development of the Congolese healthcare system has been thoroughly influenced by European ideas on the connections between the environment and disease. Health and disease and the organization of health care are always affected by material and ecological circumstances. The natural environment provides both ...
Radiation risk appraisal for detrimental effects from medical exposure during management of patients with lymphoma or brain tumour Ghent University
Een versterkte risicobeoordeling van medische blootstelling is nodig vanwege een uitgebreid gebruik van ioniserende straling voor diagnose en behandeling. Het belangrijkste doel van het 4-jarige SINFONIA-project is het ontwikkelen van nieuwe methodologieën en instrumenten die dat zullen doen een alomvattende risicobeoordeling geven voor de schadelijke effecten van blootstelling aan straling op patiënten, werknemers, verzorgers en dekbedden, ...
APPLIEDx: Integrated point-of-care platform for infectious diseases diagnosis KU Leuven
In vitro diagnostic (IVD) technologies have undoubtfully revolutionized healthcare over the past decades. However, with dominance of laboratory-confined technologies, the IVD market critically lags behind a healthcare paradigm shift towards decentralized diagnostic approaches (so called, point-of-care, POC). Lab-on-chip (LOC) technologies have long promised to address this need and bring lab-quality assays to the POC, but largely failed ...
Hilde Bruers prijs 2022 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Responding proactively to Covid-19 vaccination doubts to increase the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns in Belgium. KU Leuven
A transdisciplinary approach of the question of how to respond proactively to Covid-19 vaccination doubts to increase the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns in Belgium:;
Calibrating the recent evolution of protozoan pathogens using viral evolutionary time-scales KU Leuven
Exploring natural genetic variation has been instrumental to understand the processes that shape organismal diversity on Earth. Phylogenetics, the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among (groups of) individuals, is one of the most influential techniques to reconstruct the tree of life. This technique is especially powerful when external information, such as fossil data, can be included to time evolutionary events. ...
Hepatitis C virus direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment success and its impact on transmission dynamics in HIV/HCV co-infected MSM KU Leuven
Globally, 3-4 million hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections occur annually with injecting drug users (IDUs) and HIV positive men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) at highest risk. While spontaneous clearance occurs, the majority develops chronic infection with risk for cirrhosis, end-stage liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. In MSM, HCV transmission routes are unclear but concurrent IDU, coinfection with HIV and high-risk sexual practices are ...
Protective potential of obesity against critical illness induced muscle wasting KU Leuven
Kritieke ziekte is elke acute medische conditie waarvoor de patiënt intensieve medische ondersteuning nodig heeft van vitale organen om te kunnen overleven. Ondanks vooruitgang in de intensieve geneeskunde, heeft ongeveer 30% van de kritiek zieke patïenten langdurig nood aan intensieve zorgen. Deze verlengde vorm van kirtieke ziekte gaat samen met hypercatabolisme, spierverlies en spierzwakte, wat ook kan zorgen voor verlengde nood aan ...