Meet our researchers
Dr. Tuhina K.
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In our series: âMeet Our Researchersâ, we highlight one of the researchers from our faculty. For this edition, we sat down with Dr. Tuhina Khan. Dr. Tuhina Khanâs journey from a small village in rural India to cutting-edge research in Belgium is as inspiring as her work. At the lab of Prof. Pieter Van Der Veken at UAMC | Medicinal Chemistry Research Group, she focuses on targeted therapies for glioblastoma, designing molecules that can cross the blood-brain barrier to improve treatment options for this aggressive cancer.
February 23, 2026
Congratulations to Louis Lauwerys for successfully defending his PhD on February 23, 2026. Topic: "Design and evaluation of novel PET strategies to evaluate immunotherapy response".
December 16, 2025
Congratulations to MĂ©lissa Lallier for successfully defending her PhD on December 16, 2025. Topic: "Roadblock on the recycling route: development of novel autophagy inhibitors".
December 9, 2025
Congratulations to Maciej Rogacki for successfully defending his PhD on December 9, 2025. Topic: "Phenotypic and target-based approach to antitubercular drug discovery: investigation of thienopyrimidine and hydantoin scaffolds as new hits against Mycobacterium tuberculosis".
Archives
October 29, 2024
Congratulations to Olivier Beyens for successfully defending his PhD on October 29, 2024. Topic: "Computational study of DPP8 and DPP9: fundamental insights and inhibitor design".
April 26, 2024
Congratulations to Alan Kerstjens for successfully defending his PhD on April 26, 2024. Topic: "Computational design of synthesizable molecules by imitating reference chemistry".
February 13, 2024
Congratulations to Siham Benramdane for successfully defending her PhD on February 13, 2024. Topic: "Design and synthesis of selective DPP9 inhibitors".
January 30, 2024
Congratulations to Karuna Adhikari for successfully defending her PhD on January 30, 2024. Topic: "Design, synthesis, and evaluation of trans-cyclooctene (TCO) and cis- dioxolane fused TCO (d-TCO) probes for bioorthogonal pretargeted PET imaging".
September 20, 2023
Congratulations to Camilla Scarpellini for successfully defending her PhD on September 20, 2023. Topic: "Identification of novel ferroptosis and necroptosis inhibitors - Optimising the therapeutic potential by improving pharmacokinetic properties".
June 27, 2023
Congratulations to Alba Ramos Llorca for successfully defending her PhD on June 27, 2023. Topic: âDesign, synthesis, and evaluation of novel activity-based probes and inhibitors for trypsin-like serine proteasesâ.