Corona Research

January 2020: Vraag en antwoord over COVID-19 Vaccinatie - For UZA employees. Dutch webinar with Pierre Van Damme, Erika Vlieghe, Hilde Jansens and Jo Swartenbroekx

January 2020: Vaccination webinar - For UAntwerpen employees. Dutch webinar by Pierre Van Damme and Erika Vlieghe

January 2020: Ontwikkeling, veiligheid en kenmerken van het COVID-19 vaccin - For ZNA employees. Dutch webinar, by Pierre Van Damme

January 2020: Ontwikkeling, veiligheid en kenmerken van het COVID-19 vaccin, en aanbevelingen voor vaccinatie - For IPSA (instituut voor permanente studie voor apothekers). Dutch webinar, by Pierre Van Damme

December 2020: The road to a COVID-19 vaccine - animation introduced during the Vaccine Safety Network meeting of 17/12/2020

November 2020: Myths and facts about vaccination - At the occasion of the 6th World One Health Congress - Pierre Van Damme

October 2020: Waarom de coronabarometer er zo snel mogelijk moet komen - VRT NWS opinie

October 2020 - Het Nieuwsblad launches 'the corona compass' to help you assess how safe or risky your behaviour is. Receive tailor-made advice from renowned experts.

July 2020 - Geert Molenberghs (UHasselt and KU Leuven), Pierre Van Damme (UAntwerpen), Sarah Vercruysse (UHasselt), Niel Hens (UHasselt and UAntwerpen): Why COVID-19 has to be taken seriously.

VAXINFECTIO leads corona-related research projects. 

• Citizen Science project: weekly corona survey
• Mathematical and Statistical Prediction Models
• Sero-epidemiology study
• Clinical Vaccine Research
• EPIPOSE project

And others. All research projects have been granted the necessary ethical approval, including demonstrating the relevant added value over existing studies. The scientific methodology is shared with scientific peers. Relevant advisory groups and cabinets are informed directly about our results, on a regular basis.