Abdominal Transplantation KU Leuven
Intestinal transplantation Bioartifical liver Effect of immunosuppression on tolerance induction. Chronic rejection
Intestinal transplantation Bioartifical liver Effect of immunosuppression on tolerance induction. Chronic rejection
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology focuses on the study, prevention and treatment of important diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, the study of the complex host-microbiome interaction, and the study of the host immune system in infections, cancer, kidney diseases, autoimmunity, allergy and organ transplantation
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Research topics of this unit are :
- research regarding the immunobiology of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for solid tumors in mouse models
- development of novel immunosuppressive drugs
- in vitro immuno-assays
- immunophenotyping of patients undergoing stem cell transplantation
Patient-oriented research of factors impacting on the long term outcome of patients with chronic nephropathies both before and after starting renal replacement therapy. - Mechanisms underlying the inititiation and progression of glomerular diseases. * Evaluation of new methods to follow long term renal function in men. *Role of chronic hyperfiltration - effect of pharmacological interventions. * Role of persisting proteinuria. * Place of ...
The Laboratory of Abdominal Transplantation performs translational and clinical research in the area of kidney, liver, and intestinal transplantation. It has two main research focusses: (1) the optimization of organ preservation and reduction of ischemia-reperfusion injury, and (2) the promotion of graft acceptance after intestinal transplantation. The laboratory uses models of isolated organ perfusion, transplantation, and ischemia ...
- Coronary restenosis: clinical and experimental studies on restenosis of coronary arteries. - Myocardial infarction: clinical and experimental studies on coronary trombosis, limitation of infarct size, trombolytic agents, regulation of coronary blood flow and myocardial metabolism during ischemia and infarction. - Echocardiography: clinical and experimental studies on backscatter of ultrasound in diverse disease states; computerstudies on ...
Clinical bacteriology
• Study the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on pneumococcal disease epidemiology
• Next-generation sequencing (NGS) strategy by means of Illumina sequencing to characterize S. pneumoniae and M. tuberculosis strains including genotyping, serotyping, resistance, virulence detection and strain relatedness.
• Optimization of microbiological methods for diagnosis of orthopedic implant-related ...