IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to the recent health safety measures put into effect at our university, the seminar "From GCxGC to LCxLC (and back)" by Prof. Tadeusz Górecki planned on 17th March 2020, CDE (room R-003), is postponed until a later date.
Edible insects low in contaminants. Antwerp toxicologists test for levels of hazardous organic chemicals.
Prof. Adrian Covaci is a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology - 2019.
At the Euroanalysis conference in Istanbul, Turkey (1-5 september 2019), Olivier Mortelé and Tim Boogaerts both won an award in the category ‘best oral presentation of a young scientist’ on their work in in vitro colonic biotransformation of xenobiotics and wastewater-based epidemiology to track down antidepressants use.
Elias Iturrospe and Chanel De Swert, both master students who prepared their master thesis at the Toxicological Centre, were recently awarded for their efforts. Elias won the price for best Master student of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chanel won both the jury and audience award for her master thesis on opioid use in Belgium.
Poster presentations from our lab members at different international conferences in 2019 are now available online. Check them out here.
The Toxicological Centre is officially licensed (Royal Resolution of 5 June 2019) to perform analysis of oral fluid in the context of drugs-in-traffic