PhD projects

Dorien Glorie

Accelerated target identification using preclinical neuroimaging to close the treatment gap in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (started 01/09/2015).

Julie Ottoy

Development of clinically-feasible strategies for more accurate quantification of amyloid-beta scans (started 01/10/2015).

Stijn Servaes 

Combining small animal molecular imaging with next generation neuromodulation to explore novel OCD treatments (01/10/2014 -30/09/2018).

Sven De Bruycker

Predictive imaging biomarkers for drugs targeting the tumor microenvironment in lung cancer (1/10/2013 - 30/09/2017).

Yanina Dockx

Molecular imaging for early response assessment of drugs targeting the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in an HER-2 amplified breast cancer model (1/10/2012 - 30/09/2016)

Filipe Elvas 

Development and in vivo evaluation of SPECT/PET tracers for cell death imaging for the assessment of early tumor cell death in response to therapy

Jens Fissers

PET imaging as a potential biomarker for the diagnosis and treatment in Alzheimer’s disease

Lauren Kosten 

Multimodal molecular imaging of a rat model for schizophrenia contributing to an integrative understanding of the glutamatergic (mGluR5), neuroinflammatory (TSPO) and phosphodiesterase (PDE10) interplay

Alan Miranda Menchaca

​Molecular brain imaging of unanesthetized and unconstrained small animals (1/10/2013 - 30/09/2017)

Stephan Missault

The role of extracellular matrix proteases MMP-9 and uPA in the development of posttraumatic epilepsy following traumatic brain injury (1/10/2013 - 30/09/2017)

Sara Rapic

Molecular imaging for early response assessment of drugs targeting the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in a colorectal cancer model (1/10/2012 – 30/09/2016)

Ann-Marie Waldron

Development of an in vivo microPET imaging platform for the non-invasive investigation of novel therapeutics in Alzheimer's disease (1/01/2014 - 31/12/2017)

Halima Amhaoul

Characterization of brain inflammation in a chronic epilepsy model by means of post-mortem and in vivo techniques (1/10/2011- 31/12/2015)