Clinical sciences Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The department of Clinical Sciences
The department of Clinical Sciences
- Lung and chest wall mechanics: respiratory function in health and disease and effects of drugs. - Lung toxicology: fundamental mechanisms and epidemiologic research on occupational hazards. - Biochemical and metabolic functions of lung in health and disease and animal models. - Bronchial carcinoma: PET-scan, therapeutic modalities. - Respiratory muscles: animal models and changes in disease. - Difficult asthma. - Pulmonary embolism and ...
The department is responsible for graduate teaching in Pathologic Anatomy and (post)graduate training in Experimental Pathology. The goal is to train (bio)medical students and graduates in projects which address questions in Tissue and Cell Pathology. Technical expertise is mainly in the areas of histology, immunocytochemistry, mechanisms of cell death and regeneration, in situ hybridisation, electron microscopy. Issues in surgical pathology ...
In this project, we investigate the possibility to transplant lungs from donors after circulatory arrest. In a rabbit lung model, we look for biochemical, morphological and functional evidence that postmortem cooling, ventilation or inflation may be beneficial for lung viability in the absence of perfusion.
Description research unit:
Biomedical variables generally explain only a part of a person’s experience of health and illness and in many instances a novel approach including social and psychological influences is needed. The KU Leuven Research Group “Health Psychology” aims at unravelling how psychological and somatic variables interact in health and disease from a psycho-bio-social perspective. Both fundamental and applied research is ...
The research group of the Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Neurovascular Link focuses on a central theme, i.e. unraveling the molecular basis of angiogenesis (i.e. the formation of blood vessels) and translating these genetic insights in therapeutic concepts – and, if possible, novel treatments. The group has also broadened its scope of interest to the exciting research avenue of the neurovascular link, illustrating that vessels and nerves have ...
A. Expansion of the Clinical Research Unit of the department of anaesthesiology. This unit is at the disposition of 1. Stafmembers of the department who wish to initiate and conduct clinical research in their subspeciality. 2. Companies active in health care who wish to submit their products for evaluating in a clinical environment. 3. Health care manger who wishes to investigate organisation, cost explosion and containment in health care. B. ...