Projects
Metabolomic viability fingerprint during normothermic isolated kidney perfusion using tracer metabolomics KU Leuven
The kidney is a complex puzzle of different cell types that carry out a multitude of life-sustaining biochemical functions. Acute kidney injury, caused by a lack of oxygen supply, is a major problem in medicine for which there are no reliable diagnostic tools.
TRACK investigates whether metabolic fingerprints of health and disease can be used to diagnose severity and reversibility of acute kidney injury.
Indeed, we hypothesise that ...
Tracer Raman-Driven Mass Spectrometry Imaging (TRaMaSI): a new platform for on-tissue Tracing of Nutritional and Biochemical Trajectories. Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Heat transport as groundwater tracer Ghent University
Heat transport is an interesting tracer to better understand groundwater flow systems. With this project applications of heat transport in different situations and scales is determined. Heat transport is first studied at the scale of a well using a number of tracter tests. Secondly, heat transport is studied at a larger scale in the vicinity of an infiltration pond and finally on regional scale using hot water springs in Zambia.
Prospective clinical diagnostic performance of the novel fibroblast imaging tracer 18F-AlF-FAPI-74 versus standard of care 18F-FDG PET/CT in inflammatory disorders and fever/inflammation of unknown origin. KU Leuven
Development of Temporal Separation Methods for Simultaneous Dual Tracer PET Imaging with in vivo Validation for Applications in Oncology and Neurology. University of Antwerp
The reliability of infrared emission as a galaxy star formation rate tracer Ghent University
Star formation is the most important process in the evolution of galaxies. Hence, to understand the galaxy population reliable star-formation rate indicators are needed. The most widespread tracer is infrared emission, since it is assumed that dust (from which the infrared emission originates) is mostly heated by young stellar populations. However, recent studies challenge this assumption, questioning the reliability of infrared emission as a ...
Studying congenital disorders of glycosylation and their potential treatments using tracer metabolomics KU Leuven
Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) are a group of individually rare diseases that often severely affect multiple organs. On a biochemical level there is a malfunction of the glycosylation machinery that normally puts sugar antennas on most proteins in order that they can perform their function properly. Usually, there is no treatment for these CDG. A notable exception are a group of CDG that are characterized by a deficit of ...
Connect 2018: IMMUNE-IMAGE: Specific Imaging of Immune Cell Dynamics Using Novel Tracer Strategies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
immunotracers pre-clinically in relevant disease models, produce the tracers in a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)- compliant way, and conduct smart clinical trials, including with novel tracers.