Projects
Targeting phosphatidylserine to enhance immunogenicity of regulated necrotic cancer cells by microcapsules. Ghent University
Cell-based immunotherapies hold great promise for the future treatment of cancer. The success of these therapies, with some patients showing durable and complete remission, demonstrate the power of harnessing the immune system to eradicate tumours. It is also becoming clear that the type of cancer cell death determines the antitumor immune response and, therefore, contributes to the efficiency of anti-cancer therapy and long-term survival of ...
Computational design of symmetric circulary proteins as building blocks for platonic protein frameworks KU Leuven
The host laboratory recently made 6-fold and 8-fold symmetric circular proteins using computational biomolecular modelling techniques. The 6-fold symmetric protein called Pizza has promising properties for use in nano-technology. This Pizza protein was also redesigned to coordinate metal ions, thus forming the smallest nanocrystal reported to this date. In this project, I will aim to design other symmetric proteins with a different rotational ...
Validation of Research On Nano-electronic Integrated Circuits. KU Leuven
Aptamer micro-factories: replacing SELEX by a single-step aptamer selection strategy KU Leuven
Developments in medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, food safety and therapeutics require systems that make it possible to detect a wide range of molecules in a fast and easy, yet specific and sensitive manner. In light of these applications and driven by this demand, the field of biosensing has demonstrated huge potential. In spite of this potential, continuous improvements beyond the state of the art are necessary to help overcome ...
ERA-NET RUS.PLUS - JTC 2019: NANOtechnological TOolkit for multiplexed 3D detection and monitoring of BIOmarker status in breast cancer biopsies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
must demonstrate its greater potential in personalised approaches. A prerequisite for this is the identification
of genetic and proteomic biomarkers as well as the use of novel immunological signatures that take into
account the complex three-dimensional (3D) architecture of the tumour.
For this purpose, NanoToBio is ...
Single nanoparticle characterization platform for biomedical and nanotechnological applications. Ghent University
The field of nanoparticle applications and studies has gained large interest in the past decades both from the industrial and academic world. While the first biomedical, environmental and electro-optic applications based on nanoparticles are under development such as: biosensors, drug delivery, heavy metal sensors, quantum dots for displays etc., it still remains challenging to accurately predict and determine the nanoparticle properties on ...
MINERVA: MIcro- and NanoElectronics Research VAlidation KU Leuven
Electronics has become an essential part of our society. This is mainly thanks to the continuous improvement of semiconductor technologies. Today, nanotechnologies allow designers and engineers to build and develop highly complex systems and chips for a plethora of applications. The research on such novel electronic circuits, integrated in a nanotechnology, requires validation by fabricating and testing the designed chips. This prototype ...
Numerical simulations on the atomic scale of nanotechnological C- and Si-materials. University of Antwerp
Quantum microscope for low temperature measurements and nanoscale technologies KU Leuven
To match fast developments in the quantum technology filed, translating basic quantum mechanical principle to a novel class of devices, being it quantum computers, simulators, quantum internet and finally quantum sensing, a dedicated infrastructure is needed. Belgium has a leading theoretical tradition in quantum physics, however there is a major deficiency of experimental equipment for quantum instrumentation at FlemishUniversities, at the ...