Projects
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. University of Antwerp
Congo basin integrated monitoring for forest carbon mitigation and biodiversity (COBIMFO). Ghent University
The relationship between C stock, fluxes and biodiversity in the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin is investigated. Therefore, intensive monitoring of these variables will be performed in pristine and intervened dense tropical forests in Yangambi, along a forest productivity gradient.
The project is a partnership between UGent, Royal Museum for Central Africa, ULB, UCL, National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Royal Belgian ...
AFRIFORD: Genetic and paleoecological signatures of African rainforest dynamics: pre- adapted to change? Ghent University
AFRIFORD
AFRIFORD: Genetic and paleoecological signatures af African rainforest dynamics: pre-
adapted to change?
Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid
AMAZALERT Ghent University
The AMAZALERT project will: (1) identify ecosystem services of the AMAZON basin forests, (2) integrate modelling of the interactions between societal and natural contributors to land use, (3) improve modeling and undersranding of the complex interactions between natural systems and anthropogenic impacts, and (4)develop a tool to warn for immminent, irreversible loss of ecosystem services.
Project on the Enforcement of Non-Discrimination Law (PENDL): design of a legal framework for evidence and remedies. KU Leuven
When someone is discriminated against by an authority or another citizen (eg as an employee on the basis of age or as a tenant on the basis of ethnic origin), international, European, national and regional legislation offer protection. Recent evaluation reports show, however, that a citizen who wants to call on this protection faces considerable difficulties. First, it is not clear how one should prove that discrimination has taken place. ...
Project on the Enforcement of Non-Discrimination Law (PENDL): design of a legal framework for evidence and remedies. Hasselt University
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in the Flemish population: overview of epidemiological characteristics and pathophysiological analysis using single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-sequencing techniques. KU Leuven
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a histopathological pattern of kidney injury defined by the microscopical appearance of scar tissue (‘sclerosis’) in segments of some (‘focal’) kidney glomeruli. Historically, FSGS was incorrectly defined as a separate disease entity, while it is now recognized that FSGS lesions may occur in a wide range of clinical conditions that are all characterized by severe podocyte injury and loss, called ...
How to reimburse and pay orphan drugs for rare diseases? KU Leuven
Orphan drugs are very expensive drugs that are used to treat rare diseases. Although there are between 5,000 and 7,000 rare diseases affecting a total of 30-40 million patients in Europe, only 151 orphan drugs are available to treat such patients. As a result, market access is an issue of high priority. Of those 151 orphan drugs, only 86 drugs are fully reimbursed by RIZIV/INAMI in Belgium, implying that the patient does not have to pay for ...
Private enforcement of non-discrimination law in the goods and services sector : to a balanced legal framework for evidence and remedies KU Leuven
When someone is discriminated against by an authority or another citizen (eg as an employee on the basis of age or as a tenant on the basis of ethnic origin), international, European, national and regional legislation offer protection. Recent evaluation reports show, however, that a citizen who wants to call on this protection faces considerable difficulties. First, it is not clear how one should prove that discrimination has taken place. ...