Projects
Development of innovative techniques on board of the vessel for the manipulation and processing of living brown shrimp Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Which technical improvements on the shrimp vessels must be made to ensure the landing of higher quality live and/or raw brown shrimp? This short term practice-oriented research project is linked to another ILVO project ("liveable shrimp fishery') whose aim is to optimise trading and processing of live/raw brown shrimp. That optimisation begins on the vessel. The first unwanted damage to the ...
Reconstruction of Wave Forms for Parameter Correction and Pattern Recognition for Acoustic Emission Testing on Pressure Vessels KU Leuven
The aim of this project is to improve the analysis of acoustic emission testing on cylindrical pressure vessels. The analysis of acoustic emission tests on pressure vessels is currently based on signal parameters. Those signal parameters are extracted from the wave form as it is measured by the sensor which is the closest to the source. This approach comes with the drawback that changes to the wave form occurring prior to arrival of the wave ...
Study of the residual stresses in a thermoplastic filament winding process for high-pressure H2-storage vessels. KU Leuven
The target is to obtain a series of FEA-models that are capable of predicting the mechanical performance (burst-pressure) of thermoplastic composite high-pressure vessels for H2-storage applications. The project will start with an accurate characterization of both process and materials. Secondly, a thermal model and a process-model will be built that are able to predict the residual stress state and microstructure after winding. This result ...
Extreme low-frequency-electromagnetic stimulation (ELF-EMS) as an innovative tool to target endothelial cells in ischemic stroke Hasselt University
Not a (tooth-)fairy tale: towards a new innovative strategy to bioprint a tooth KU Leuven
The biofabrication of 3D biomimetic tissue analogs, which accurately mimic the properties of native tissue, have an enormous potential in biomedical applications (drug discovery, cancer research, regenerative medicine,…). A basic prerequisite for the survival, maturation and function of 3D engineered tissues is the establishment of blood vessels. The most critical challenge in complex tissue engineering is the integration of an organ-specific ...
Innovative scaffolds with enhanced vascularization and patterned cells for bone tissue engineering Ghent University
Tissue engineering (TE) is a promising research field to address the loss or failure of organs/tissues. However, designing larger performant TE constructs is challenging due to the need for (1) functional scaffold vascularization in combination with (2) controlled cellular distribution. Therefore, this project aims to develop a new strategy to synthesize vascularized TE bone constructs, as bone is a very relevant tissue. The construct will ...
The potential of innovative genome-scale metabolic models in discovering novel targets to treat pathological angiogenesis KU Leuven
During blood vessel formation (angiogenesis), endothelial cells (ECs) tune their metabolism to cope with altered energy or biomass demands. While targeting EC metabolism thus offers novel anti-angiogenic treatment opportunities, prioritization of the >4,000 metabolic enzymes remains a challenge. We therefore developed an EC-tailored genome scale computational metabolic model (EC-GEM_v1.0) to in silico predict metabolic genes essential for ...