Projects
PRISMA:Polygenic Risc scoring and deep-Immunophenotyping Strategy to Master Alzheimer's disease KU Leuven
The consortium is committed to pushing Alzheimer's disease (AD) towards personalized medicine. This project will broaden and deepen the knowledge about genetic risk and immune biomarkers for AD. She will also build a solid data platform that can be used to rigorously recruit stratified populations for clinical studies and serve as a basis for designing personalized diagnostic applications and targeted interventions for AD. The central ...
Innovative credit scoring modeling using textual and social network data. University of Antwerp
Innovative credit scoring modeling using textual and social network data. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Patrick Degryse: Micro-analysis of cultural artifacts: sourcing antimony used in late Bronze age pyrotechnology KU Leuven
Antimony minerals were frequently used from the 5th millennium BCE onwards, as a resource in metallurgy and glass making. Nevertheless, questions concerning technology and provenance have not been satisfactorily answered. To provenance antimony ores used in ancient technology, the group of P. Degryse developed Sb isotopic analysis (AIA) to compare ores to artefacts, next to using more established lead isotope analysis (LIA). The former ...
PASSAGE - Pioneering Autonomous Suturing for Single-port Access surGEry KU Leuven
Unlike conventional minimal invasive surgery (MIS), Single-port access surgery (SPA) utilizes only a single incision or a natural orifice to access the surgical space. While further reducing the risk for morbidity and shortening the recovery period, the single access approach magnifies the technical difficulties such as poor eye-hand coordination, limited vision and haptic feedback, notably in utero repair of open spina bifida. Recently a ...
From smart watches to autonomous cars: securing consumers’ rights and interests in the era of smart technology and the Internet of Things KU Leuven
The number of devices being connected to the internet is growing rapidly. This trend—referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT)—illustrates how everyday objects are gradually turned into smart devices. These smart devices are capable of collecting data from their surroundings and sharing those data over the internet.
The development of the IoT raises several legal questions from a consumer protection perspective. First, the ...
Sustainable Sourcing of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables from Senegal KU Leuven
Rural development can be a major welfare catalyst for rural Sub-Saharan African regions, as more than 80% of the poor live in rural areas and derive their livelihoods from a limited range of (on-farm) activities. Rural development – an umbrella term for all activities, programs and strategies that target to improve the livelihoods of rural households – comprises both agricultural and non-agricultural development, and can be triggered through ...
Investigation of anti-inflammatory and cytotoxic guaianolide lactones: isolation and characterisation of naturally occuring NF-B inhibitors from Laserpitium L.species and their structural modification in order to enhance their activity Ghent University
The aim of this project is an investigation of the mechanism by which guaianolide
lactones exert NF-kappaB and/or AP-1 inhibition in a strong, concentration
dependent manner, and to explain their activity as potential anti-inflammatory and
cytotoxic agents.
Sesquiterpene lactones are plant metabolites of a complex structure, with a limited
distribution and numerous pharmacological activities, so they are gaining ...
The power of social media in the news. A multi-method study on the influence of Twitter on sourcing patterns in journalism. Ghent University
This project investigates the impact of social media on news in the Flemish public sphere by examing (1) inter-media agenda-setting relations between traditional and new media; (2) how social media is treated as source of information in mainstream news stories (and vice versa) and (3) how journalists assess and process social media as a source in their news stories.