Projects
BRIDGE 2019: SUBLIMUS – Becoming modern green urban alchemists: Gold and silver mining from Brussels urban sewage Vrije Universiteit Brussel
InForMining in Peru: research and partnership on informal gold mining. University of Antwerp
InforMining? An in-depth study of informalization processes in global gold production. University of Antwerp
Design and development of biodegradable polymer/ gold nanorod hybrid nano carriers for photothermal cancer therapy : Evaluation by (non-)linear optical methods. Hasselt University
Therapeutic targeting of early metastasis by exosome-mimetic gold nanoparticles Ghent University
Metastasis is responsible for more than 90% of cancer-associated mortality; thus the clinical need
to prevent or target metastasis is high. This holds especially for triple-negative breast cancer
(TNBC) patients, since not a single targeted therapy has been approved for the treatment of
metastatic TNBC and these patients respond poorly to aggressive and toxic chemotherapy. We
focus on common early ...
Hybrid nanoparticles based on magnetite and gold as catalyst for organic coupling reactions. KU Leuven
In the past decades the importance of nanotechnology in the industry has grown exponentially. Nanoparticles with all sorts of properties have been developed for a multitude of applications, and recently it was realized that combining materials for hybrid nanotechnology offers further technological progress. In the last 30 years another branch of chemistry has become economically relevant, palladium catalyzed reactions for organic coupling. ...
Synthesis of strigolactone and karrikin analogues by gold mediated cyclisation Ghent University
Karrikins and strigolactones are plant hormones which share a common signaling cascade, and a common structural butenolide feature. A newly developped gold catalysed rearrangement is used to obtain new butenolide analogues in order to shed light on the biological pathways involved and to obtain useful new agrochemicals.
Gold nanoparticle templated vaccine nanocarriers Ghent University
Dendritic cells (DC) are the key players linking annate to adaptive immunity and the development o nanocarriers that can target and activate these cells while delivering an antien payload is believed to be o high importance in the development of the next generation of vaccines against intracellular pathogens and for the development of anti-cancer cavvines. here we aim to design nanovaccines based on gold nanoparticles with sezes ranging from ...