Projecten

Goedgekeurde geneesmiddelen hebben favoriete of gevalideerd farmacokinetische eigenschappen en toxicologische profielen, en de herpositionering van bestaande geneesmiddelen voor nieuwe indicaties kunnen potentieel dure kosten in verband met een vroeg stadium het testen van de hit verbindingen te vermijden. In de afgelopen jaren de technologische vooruitgang in de virtuele screening methoden hebben toegestaan medicinale chemici om snel te ...

ConcePTION partners have united around a shared vision that we have a societal obligation to radically and rapidly reduce uncertainty about the safety of medication use in pregnancy and lactation.

What do we deliver? ConcePTION aims to create a paradigm shift in how we study medication safety in pregnancy. We will establish (1) a successful, sustainable open-science based EU non-proprietary ecosystem of public and private ...

Decompensation of liver cirrhosis and progression towards acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) causes 1.2 million deaths/year. Microbiome is causally involved in cirrhosis progression and is for drugs the first interaction point with the patients. Drugs can alter the microbiome leading to unwanted effects or even facilitating their effects, but the microbiome metabolizes the drugs, shapes their effects and possibly determines the host ...

ADME (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion) studies focus on the examination and prediction of drug behavior in the human body. Zebrafish present a good in vivo model for this purpose since they comply with the 3R principle of humane animal research (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement). The research group of Prof. Deirdre Cabooter recently developed a novel sample preparation and analytical method to accurately measure the ...

All chemicals whether they are drugs, cosmetics, agrochemicals or others need to be tested for their safety to man and the environment. The use of whole animal studies for the prediction of adverse effects in man, is problematic due to species dependent effects, high costs and a large burden to animals in terms of numbers and suffering. While there have been major improvements in human in vitro and in silico techniques, there is still a lack ...