Session: sleeping better Mind Matters Week Do you want to start your day feeling fresher and more rested? Join our Better Sleep Session online and learn simple techniques to improve your sleep quality. It will boost your energy (and your mood)! Webinar (English): Monday 17/11, 12h-13h30 Sign up here…

Global Change Ecology search menu search content How deep is the sleep of tree buds in winter? How deep is the sleep of tree buds in winter? A more erratic sleep for deciduous trees than previously thought is discovered. A new study by Romain Garrigues and co-authors showed that while absence of win…

The Great Corona Study search menu search content Results survey 2 Three out of four work from home Second wave of UAntwerp’s Great Corona Study also enquired about mental well-being On Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of Belgians filled in the UAntwerp corona questionnaire again. An initial analysi…

Inge Glazemakers associate professor Research Inge Glazemakers Research team Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI) Expertise Studies about child and adolescent mental health. -Cross-sectoral collaboration for children and adolescents with multiple and complex needs/multiple pr…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Patrick MITASHI Novel diagnostic tests for human African trypanosomiasis: what is their role in primary health care services? Thesis summary Introduction The control of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is mainly based on active case detection (i.…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Uganda Research Platform Welcome to the Uganda 'HEFS' Platform The Health, Environment and Food Security ('HEFS') platform is a research platform sponsored by the Belgian Development Cooperation through the VLIR-UOS. The Platform comprises of 5 Flem…

Dorien Mabille postdoc researcher FWO Research Dorien Mabille Research team Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) The role of tissue sanctuary niches in naturally transmitted Trypanosoma infections. 01/11/2023 - 31/12/2026 Abstract African trypanosomiasis is a tsetse fly trans…

Ilse De Volder unpaid staff Publications Ilse De Volder Novel technologies for REM sleep behavior disorder detection for home screening in Parkinson's disease and related alpha-synucleinopathies Source NPJ Parkinson's disease - ISSN 2373-8057-11:1 (2025) p. 1-14 Author(s) Kaat Colman, An-Marie Schyv…

Mind Matters Week Monday 17/11/25 - Friday 21/11/25 During the Mind Matters Week, we are shining a light on mental health. Find out what is on the programme during the week of 17 November 2025 below. You can find the Dutch programme here. Workshop Heart Coherence: Breath your stress under control Mo…

Zeng Li unpaid staff Publications Zeng Li The history of anti-trypanosome vaccine development shows that highly immunogenic and exposed pathogen-derived antigens are not necessarily good target candidates : enolase and ISG75 as examples Source Pathogens - ISSN 2076-0817-10:8 (2021) p. Author(s) Stef…

Infla-Med search menu search content News Infla-Med is coordinating a new HORIZON-MSCA-Doctoral Network 'OncoProTools' April 2022: Happy to announce that Infla-Med is coordinating a new HORIZON-MSCA-Doctoral Network! OncoProTools was granted 2.3 million € to train 10 Doctoral Candidates in the fie…

Reuse Lab search menu search content REDOSE Sustainability in the operating room: anaesthesia Immense piles of disposable waste are created daily in the operating room. Practicing anesthesia is a major contributor to the creation of this waste. How can an anesthesiologist perform his/her duties in a…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Neglected Tropical Diseases Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of 20 conditions* that are mainly prevalent in tropical areas, where they mostly affect impoverished communities and disproportionately affect women and children. The…

Robert Tholen unpaid staff Research Robert Tholen Research team Centre for Population, Family and Health For better health in university and college students: pin-pointing the interplay between social support, study stress, substance use and mental health across different study programs. 01/10/2017 …

Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene search menu search content LMPH Laboratory of Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene Welcome The Laboratory of Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) is an interdepartmental research group at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and V…

Annick Gilles assistant professor Research Annick Gilles Research team Expertise Randomized- controlled trials, statistics, imaging on topics: tinnitus, hearing, cogniton, vestibular STILLER: Silencing Tinnitus by Individualised Low-Level stimulation to Enhance Responses. 01/09/2025 - 01/09/2028 Abs…

Louis Maes emeritus with assignment Research Louis Maes Research team Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) Expertise - Antioxidant evaluation of pure compounds and extracts. - Integrated antimicrobial (bacteria, fungi, yeasts and parasites) screening and profiling of pure com…

Translational Neurosciences search menu search content Lab Dental Materials Introduction The research at our Lab Dental Materials focuses on (1) Research on dental sleep medicine and obstructive sleep apnea in the hospital, and (2) Development of research equipment for several research projects of o…

Death care search menu search content Lecture series 2024 In the Spring of 2024, we invited a broad audience to a four-part lecture series in which they could listen and talk to researchers about various societal challenges related to death care. In the panel on the left, you can find more informati…

Building project Paardenmarkt Historical site is new home base of students Product Development Students of the Product Development programme at UAntwerp started the second semester of academic year 2022-2023 in a different setting. The historical education site of the former Stedelijke Nijverheidssc…

Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences search menu search content Expert Meeting 2: The degradation of weighted silk objects in heritage collections Venue: Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, Metelkova ulica 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia This expert meeting is part of the SAFESILK research project, an FWO/ARIS…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Joseph OKEBE From control to elimination: reducing residual malaria transmission in The Gambia Summary Malaria endemic countries such as The Gambia, backed by political will and international funding, have significantly reduced the malaria burden. T…

Guy Caljon research professor Research Guy Caljon Research team Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) Expertise - In vitro and in vivo preclinical models of parasitic infectious diseases - Natural parasite transmission models using insect vectors - Imaging methods to study inf…

Jean-Claude Dujardin associate professor Research Jean-Claude Dujardin Research team An investigation into the mechanisms of Plasmodium vivax chloroquine resistance (PvCQR): a transcriptomic/transgenic approach. 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Chloroquine resistance (PvCQR) in Plasmodium vivax, the…

Kris Van den Broeck assistant professor - principal research fellow Research Kris Van den Broeck Research team Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA) Expertise Public mental health (prevalence); mental health promotion and selfcare (in primary care professionals); stigma on mental health…