Antwerp Surgical Training, Anatomy and Research Centre search menu search content For undertakers Practical guidelines and information The executor should contact an undertaker, or in exceptional cases the town where the individual was registered (see FAQ), once they are deceased. The undertaker wil…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Janneke COX HIV and Mortality, Autopsy Studies from Uganda Abstract HIV can be treated nowadays; with antiretroviral medication HIV‐infected patients can live a healthy life. Nevertheless, 1.2 million people died of HIV in sub‐Saharan Africa in …

Alain Verschoren UAntwerp mourns former rector Alain Verschoren On behalf of the entire UAntwerp community, Rector Herman Van Goethem offers his heartfelt condolences to the family and the many friends and colleagues of Alain Verschoren. Mourning register Alain put our university on the map On Thurs…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Jane NAMUKASA Challenges for long-term HIV treatment adherence and risk behaviour reduction in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons learned at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda Thesis Summary There has been remarkable global scale-up of anti…

VAXINFECTIO search menu search content Coronavirus Research News Why COVID-19 has to be taken seriously Geert Molenberghs (UHasselt and KU Leuven), Pierre Van Damme (UAntwerpen), Sarah Vercruysse (UHasselt), Niel Hens (UHasselt and UAntwerpen) - July 2020 It has often been claimed that the infection…

Arts Sniper Alley - To my brother Film screening and Q&A Sniper Alley - To my brother Film screening and Q&A Trailer Sniper Alley Sniper Alley - to my brother The documentary Sniper Alley - to my brother by filmmakers Cristiana Lucia Grilli and Francesco Toscani tells the story of Dzemil Hodzic and …

5th Edition Vesalius Continuum search menu search content Past editions Vesalius Continuum is an interdisciplinary initiative that has been active since 2014, dedicated to exploring the intersection of anatomy, art, and history. The project commemorates the legacy of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), th…

Biomab search menu search content Vesalius Continuum Vesalius Continuum is an interdisciplinary initiative that has been active since 2014, dedicated to exploring the intersection of anatomy, art, and history. The project commemorates the legacy of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), the 16th-century Flem…

Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content Political Chronicles 2020 of the African Great Lakes Region Continuing the tradition of L’Afrique des grands lacs. Annuaire, this companion volume to Conjonctures de l’Afrique centrale (Paris, L’Harmattan) offers a survey of political dev…

Emile Francqui Our compatriot Emile Francqui was born in 1863 and died in 1935. During his stay in China commissioned by king Leopold III, Francqui met future president Hoover of the United States. At the outbreak of World War I he was contacted by Hoover to intervene in the distribution of the aid …

Research Group MIOS search menu search content HealthNar (2017) Can you use a TV soap or a game to promote health? What is the role and impact of health stories from celebrities, (blogging) patients and health organisations? How should health and media professionals work together? And what challenge…

The Great Corona Study search menu search content Results survey 23 More than one in five still have symptoms after two months November 9th 2020 Analysis of the Great Corona Study shows that virus is now very close to many people The coronavirus is close to many people’s hearts: 65% of participant…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Ilan SCHWARTZ Emergomyces africanus: a new cause of opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts Abstract Emergomyces africanus is a dimorphic fungus reported from South Africa in 2013 (as Emmonsia sp.) as a cause of invasive fungal disease (…

Diversity and inclusion search menu search content Film 'Sous l'Etoile d'Or' In 1939, Belgian filmmaker Hélène Schirren made this promotional film about the Belgian Colonial College founded in 1920. This building is currently the University of Antwerp’s Rector’s Office on Campus Middelheim. Th…

Global Engagement search menu search content Film 'Sous l'Etoile d'Or' In 1939, Belgian filmmaker Hélène Schirren made this promotional film about the Belgian Colonial College founded in 1920. This building is currently the University of Antwerp’s Rector’s Office on Campus Middelheim. The hist…

The Great Corona Study search menu search content Results survey 25 More people will respect rules for Christmas December 3rd 2020 Almost none of the participants in the Great Corona Study say they will go on skiing holiday Two weeks ago, one in three participants of the Great Corona Study said they…

The Great Corona Study search menu search content ‘One in three have to make do with less income’ UAntwerp’s Great Corona Study yields some remarkable findings again April 21st 2020 Almost one in five people with a suspected COVID-19 infection stated in UAntwerp’s Great Corona Study that the…

Centre for Research and Innovation in Care search menu search content News and press releases Staff shortages lead to more deaths 'Staff shortages lead to more deaths' UAntwerp research links lower nurse staffing to higher hospital mortality A new study by researchers from UAntwerp has found that th…

Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series search menu search content In memoriam Mario J. Valdés In memoriam: Mario J. Valdés, 1934–2020 ‘La enseñanza es mi pasión. Todo lo que he publicado ha salido de las aulas, todo’ ‘there is no survival as meaningful as the re-…

Evolutionary Ecology Group - EVECO search menu search content Ebola-mission - EVECO Scientists head to Congo in search of Ebola source of infection Antwerp scientists from EVECO head to remote province in Congo with an international team in search of the source of the recent Ebola infection. Wednesd…

Social Sciences Karolien Poels Karolien Poels 1. What was your favourite subject during your student days? I had my first “aha! - I really find this interesting” moment during Professor Patrick Vyncke's “Semiotics” classes and later also during his classes on consumer behaviour. This led me …

The Samuel Beckett Endpage search menu search content Biography Short Biography of Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett was born without difficulty at Cooldrinach in Foxrock, County Dublin, on 13 April 1906, but grew old enough to fill the air with many different cries. He was the second of two son…

Diversity and inclusion search menu search content Speech Herman Van Goethem Rector UAntwerp Esteemed representatives of the family of the late Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, esteemed representatives of the African community in general and representatives of the Congolese community in particular, e…

Global Engagement search menu search content Speech Herman Van Goethem Rector UAntwerp Esteemed representatives of the family of the late Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, esteemed representatives of the African community in general and representatives of the Congolese community in particular, esteeme…

Antwerp X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy laboratory search menu search content The Ghent Altarpiece The Ghent Altarpiece reveals its greatest secret UAntwerp researchers identify the precise contribution of Hubert and Jan van Eyck Interdisciplinary research by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage…