Projects
PremAtuRe nEwborn motor and cogNitive impairmenTs: Early diagnosis KU Leuven
Prematurity exponentially increases the risk for an altered neurodevelopmental outcomes in childhood and adolescence. Many survivors children, face a lifetime of disability. Despite the advances in neonatal care have greatly improved survival of preterm born infants even at extremely low gestational ages we are now at a period of steadiness where no further improvement in long-term neurodevelopmental outcome is seen. The impact of these ...
FasOmics: an integrated multi-omics characterization of the fundamental biology of maternal and newborn health vulnerability in Burkina Faso Ghent University
Modern biological high-throughput technologies have generated a data deluge—from which low and middle-incomes countries (LMICs) have not yet fully benefited. These technologies generate methodologically and biologically distinct omics data types (e.g., genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and most recently exposomics)—each of which imparts different but complementary information. New insight from these omics data can deepen our understanding of ...
A multidisciplinary study for the exploitation of biodegradable nanocarriers for targetted drug delivery to preterm newborn lungs KU Leuven
Development and validation of the in vitro microfold cell model to investigate the role of breastmilk antibodies in infant protection against pertussis. University of Antwerp
Missed opportunities in maternal and infant health Ghent University
The main objective of this project is to improve maternal and newborn health trough a focus on the postpartum period. The research will examine how postpartum services could best be organized to reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality, within existing health systems and their constraints.
Community-based scheduled screening and treatment of malariain pregnancy for improved maternal and infant health : a cluster-randomized trial Institute of Tropical Medicine
NEW ANAESTHETIC STRATEGIES FOR PAEDIATRIC AND FOETAL INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE HAEMODYNAMIC STABILITY AND NEUROCOGNITIVE OUTCOME KU Leuven
General anesthesia in young children has reached such a level of safety in terms of immediate outcome that indications are growing disproportionally. General anesthesia is increasingly used to provide not only ideal and safe conditions for invasive surgical interventions, but also for diagnostic and interventional procedures. With the advances in prenatal diagnosis and therapy, the indications for fetal surgery continue to expand, and ...