Organisations
Environment and Health KU Leuven
ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH (E&H)
The Centre for Environment and Health (E&H) includes the following closely linked areas of research: (a) Occupational and Environmental Exposure and Toxicological Assessment; (b) Occupational and Environmental medicine; (c) Insurance medicine; (d) Youth Health Care; (e) Infection Prevention and Control; (f) Nutrition. The interaction between environment and health in different age groups and settings ...
Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy (Rega Institute) KU Leuven
This unit designs and develops antiviral and antitumor agents, primarily nucleoside, nucleotide or oligonucleotide analogues but also other substances which interact with enzymes involved in nucleic acid metabolism (i.e. DNA polymerase, reverse transcriptase, thymidine kinase, thymidylate kinase, nucleoside phosphorylase, dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, adenosine deaminase, S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase, IMP dehydrogenase, OMP ...
LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance KU Leuven
The research team focuses on the analysis of the economics of transition, with a special emphasis on empirical testing of theory using micro economic databases. The latter include firm level data collected by means of large scale business survey data. The main research topics that we focus on include: - the analysis of firm restructuring in transition countries, using approaches from Schumpeterian growth theory. - the analysis of job ...
Translational Research in GastroIntestinal Disorders KU Leuven
- Neuromodulation of the intestinal immune system
- Immunomodulation of afferent nerve function and visceral hypersensitivity
- Intestinal macrophage phenotyping
- Pathophysiology and treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
- Pathophysiology of postoperative ileus
- Pathophysiology of gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Pathophysiology and treatment of achalasia
- Neuron-glial interactions in the ...
Trypanosoma Institute of Tropical Medicine
Introduction
The Trypanosoma Unit, led by Prof Jan Van Den Abbeele, focuses its activities on African trypanosomes, protozoan parasites that causes devastating diseases in humans (Human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness) and livestock (Animal trypanosomiasis). Activities reach from basic research to translational, field-oriented work. The major aims of our work are to extend our understanding of i) the parasite adaptive ...
Department of Large Animal Surgery, Anaesthesia and Orthopaedics Ghent University
Clinical Biology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research (IMPRES) University of Antwerp
Ecology and Systematics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
AMPHIBIAN EVOLUTION LAB (Prof. Franky Bossuyt) http://www.amphibia.be ABSTRACT: Research centers around the use of molecular phylogenetics to elucidate evolutionary patterns, and the processes that produce them, in amphibians. We are trying to understand the relationship between tempo and mode of evolution in relation to biogeography, speciation and morphological diversification. Our research also integrates this phylogenetic background with ...