Projects

T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a rare aggressive hematological malignancy that is
characterized by the diffuse infiltration of the bone marrow by malignant T-cell progenitors. Due to the
introduction of intensified combination chemotherapy, the prognosis of T-ALL has significantly improved
over the last years, with current protocols reaching cure rates over 80% in children and about 50% in
adults. Nonetheless, the ...

Prostate cancer patients being confronted with a limited nodal recurrence are generally treated with palliative lifelong systemic androgen deprivation therapy with an important negative impact on the quality of life. The current study wants to establish a new standard of care for these patients exploring the potential of local treatments, improving progression-free survival and quality of life.

This project aims at excavating an extensive Roman settlement threatened by the construction of the Ghent harbor, called the Kluizendok.

During the sabbatical period I will work on a book project about the flawed reception of the classical sociology of culture of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, which is mainly found in their sociology of religion (and in Weber's case equally in his scientific theory). This flawed reception has resulted in an intellectual dominance of a cultural sociology that treats culture as little more than an ideology that justifies, perpetuates and ...

It is largely assumed that large-scale housing has been an outright failure. The typical images that we have of mass housing have been derived from canonical but polarising projects, the wet dreams of megalomaniacal architectural figures and demonising rhetoric. Since large-scale, coordinated housing solutions are politically incorrect, the types of actions celebrated today tend towards the small: self-help models which risk ...

Re-readings of Roman Catholic tradition through the lens of power-critical studies have exposed a host of silent and silenced voices underneath its master narrative of unity and stability; however, Roman Catholic theology has not developed adequate models to enable a thoroughgoing reflection on this ecclesial polyphony in its full complexity. The proposed research programme addresses this lacuna through an interdisciplinary retrieval of ...

In this project we plan research with the CMS-detector at CERN, Geneva, the IceCube observatory at the South Pole, and the SoLid-detector in SCK.CEN, Mol. The recurring theme in every workpackage is the search for deviations from the Standard Model of particle physics, showing the way to new physics beyond this model.

A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.

The spectacular first direct detections of gravitational waves (GW) have opened up hitherto unexplored and extreme regions of the universe. To realize the rich discovery potential of GWs with laser interferometry will require new collaborations and initiatives at the interface of physics and engineering. With this Declaration of Intent our research groups join forces to put forward a coherent research program building on our strengths and ...