Organisations
Neglected Tropical Diseases Institute of Tropical Medicine
The Unit of HIV & Neglected Tropical Diseases was created in April 2015, building on the post-doctoral work of the current head (Johan van Griensven, internist/clinical epidemiologist).
The unit studies the interaction between neglected tropical diseases and other conditions such as HIV coinfection. The current main research area is visceral leishmaniasis (VL)-HIV coinfection in East-Africa. Research is conducted within a ...
Interuniversity Centre For Health Economics Research Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Research within I-CHER will focus on topics in the following research areas:
1. Health-economic evaluations (costs and benefits of medicines and medical technologies);
2. Health and business economics aspects of hospital policy
3. Health-economic aspects of physical exercise, nutrition, healthy lifestyle and preventive health care in general
4. Health-economic aspects of various organizational models and medical care ...
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
MICH develops research in the following areas: 1. Fundamental research on the replication cycle of poliovirus, research concentrates on the first steps of the cycle (adsorption, uncoating) and the last step (assembly); 2. Development of new poliovaccines (also biotech vaccines); 3. Fundamental research on antiviral compounds (in collaboration with Janssen Research Foundation); 4. Viruses on the origin of multiple sclerosis?; 5. Theiler murine ...
Allergy and Clinical Immunology Research Group KU Leuven
1. Allergy
Clinical research, cohort based, on drug hypersensitivity
Food allergy: clinical driven research into hidden allergens, co-factor enhanced food allergy, rare allergens (allergy to carmine, eatable insect allergens, WDEIA quality of life study etc…)
Mastocytosis and hymenoptera venom allergy and treatment: clinical prospective follow-up over 30 years of a large database of patients with hymentoptera venom ...
Audio Visual Signal Processing Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Audio-visual Signal Processing (AVSP) Lab investigates novel methods for the automated interpretation of social and affective behaviour. Research areas include social signal processing, multisensor fusion, computer vision, ubiquitous computing, and machine learning. Our expertise is mainly focused on developing automated methods to analyse social signals from verbal and non-verbal behaviour with multiple sensing modalities (e.g. ...
Cell Biology and Histology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Department of Cell Biology (CYTO-VUB) is specialized in molecular and cellular liver research, with a main focus on the (patho)biology of hepatic stellate cells and liver progenitor cells. Prof. A. Geerts contributed to the first paper on isolation, purification and culturing of hepatic stellate cells (1) and is the author of a side scatter activated cell sorting method to purify freshly isolated hepatic stellate cell up to 95 - 100% (2). ...
Pain in Motion Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pain in Motion is a multidisciplinary group of researchers and clinicians who combine forces to 1) improve the understanding of biopsychosocial mechanisms of pain; and 2) strive towards having a significant impact on health care for patients suffering from (persistent) pain. Therefore, Pain in Motion members engage themselves in conducting innovative research and sharing findings to students, healthcare professionals, policy makers, patients ...
Diensten Rector Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Morphology Hasselt University
1. Neuroregeneration in the central nervous system (therapies for spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries) - Prof. Hendrix.
2. Dento-maxillo-facial regenerative medicine: neuroregeneration and bone tissue formation using stem cells and implants, analyzed by histological techniques, frontier research by means of multiple high-resolution imaging techniques- Prof. Lambrichts ...