Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Basic as well as applied research on mechanisms, treatment and prevention of cell death-driven diseases, with focus on ferroptosis (kind of biological rust). We follow an integrated approach from knowledge building and discovery to (pre)clinical resear…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Facilities The CDS lab has standard access to two university facilities, allowing for frequent measurement on up-to-date instrumentation. Pyrosequencing (SNP, CpG) Bisulfite sequencing is the use of bisulfite treatment of DNA to determine its pattern o…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content News Recent news items can be viewed here: Farnaz Takhsha wins 2nd price thesis price competition 2015 The first price of € 1000 in the category of exact (bio)medical sciences was won by Yannick De Vlaeminck for his thesis entitled "Dissecting the bi…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Equipment CDS uses a large variety of techniques situated in the field of proteomics, (epi)genomics and protein biochemistry. Here are a few examples of equipment in the CDS lab: Flash photolysis and stopped flow The reactivity of globins towards gaseo…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Events PhD Defences Structural analysis of the membrane-proximal venus flytrap domain (VFT2) of ESAG4 receptor-like adenylate cyclase from Trypanosoma brucei Public defence Desirée Oliveira Alves - Department Pharmaceutical Sciences Date 21 nov Struct…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content CDS Cell Death Signaling Cell Death Signaling lab Cell Death Signaling lab prev 1 / 2 next Contact Cell Death Signaling (CDS) Show email address Campus Drie Eiken, Building S, 4th Floor / T, 1st floor Universiteitsplein 1 2610 Wilrijk (Flanders), Belgi…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Members Team leaders Prof. dr. Tom Vanden Berghe Prof. dr. Wim Vanden Berghe Prof. dr. Andy Wullaert Prof. dr. Xaveer Van Ostade Ass. Prof. Dr. Anja Verhulst Ass. Prof. Dr. Benjamin Vervaet Post-docs Dr. Claudina Perez Novo Dr. Geert Behetz Dr. Britt O…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Teams Our Cell Death Signaling research group integrates following research lines: Ferroptosis Signaling - Tom Vanden Berghe The lab investigates mechanisms, diagnostics, and intervention strategies related to critical illnesses, brain injuries, kidney…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Research mission The Cell Death Signaling lab studies molecular biological stress responses which affect cell viability (autophagy, nucleophagy), cell death (apoptosis, ferroptosis, pyroptosis), or senescence. The research cluster combines advanced mol…

Medicinal Chemistry search menu search content Cell death/survival Necroptosis and Ferroptosis Necroptosis and ferroptosis are newly discovered modes of regulated necrosis. Necroptosis is regulated by RIP kinase 1 (RIP1) and plays a critical role in several inflammatory diseases. Furthermore, RIP1 h…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Projects and publications Contact Proteinchemistry, Proteomics and Epigenetic Signalling (PPES) Show email address Campus Drie Eiken, Building S, 4th floor Universiteitsplein 1 2610 Wilrijk (Flanders), Belgium Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary coo…

Death care search menu search content Death care What about the dead in times of climate crisis, pandemics, and multiculturalism? Sooner or later, death becomes part of everybody's life. Often, conversations after death concern mourning or care for the people left behind by the deceased. But what ca…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Molecular actions of medicinal compounds Epidemiological, preclinical and animal studies support phytomedicinal benefits of mangiferin (purified from mangotree Mangifera Indica), withaferin A (purified from Withania Somnifera) or thalassiolin (purified…

Dodenzorg zoeken menu zoek inhoud Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death Online leesgroep over het boek van Susana Monsó Ons project organiseert een online leesgroep over het boek Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monsó. We hopen dat dit fascinerende boek kan dienen als …

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Epigenetic clock rejuvenation towards healthy aging A deeper understanding of this can be used for therapeutic nutritional or pharmaceutical rejuvenating interventions to promote healthy aging, or to prevent cancer and cardiometabolic and neurodegenera…

Death care search menu search content Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death Online book club on the book by Susana Monsó Our project facilitates an online book club on the book Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monsó. We hope that this fascinating book provides a starti…

Death care search menu search content Dealing with Human Remains This lecture is in the past. It took place in Dutch. Did you miss the lecture? E-mail emma.moormann@uantwerpen.be to receive a link to the recording. On the opening night we delve into one of the most fundamental questions of death car…

Death care search menu search content The Green Death This lecture is in the past. It took place in Dutch. Did you miss the lecture? E-mail emma.moormann@uantwerpen.be to receive a link to the recording. The popularity of ecological burial methods is on the rise. Humusation or resomation are conside…

Death care search menu search content Intercultural Rituals and Death Care This lecture is in the past. It took place in Dutch. Did you miss the lecture? E-mail emma.moormann@uantwerpen.be to receive a link to the recording. Different cultural and religious traditions employ different rituals and pr…

Death care search menu search content Death Care in Times of Crisis This lecture is in the past. Did you miss the lecture? E-mail emma.moormann@uantwerpen.be to receive a link to the recording. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted our burial practices: funerals were to be held in small parties, online, o…

Death care search menu search content *** This symposium will take place in Dutch. *** On Tuesday the 21 of October our first yearly symposium will take place. During this event, our researchers present their insights and hope to foster dialogue with and between participants. This symposium is broad…

Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Proteomics on biomarkers, infectious disease severity and electromagnetics Summary of major ongoing and planned projects. 1. Biomarker Identification 1.1. Identification of cervix carcinoma biomarkers using proteomics on cervicovaginal fluid In collabo…

Death care search menu search content People In our project, we are trying to bring together many people and organizations involved in sustainable death care. The research in our project is conducted by a research team in which three institutions are represented: University of Antwerp, KU Leuven and…

Death care search menu search content Publications 2025 De groene dood (essay in Dutch) Uitgeverij Letterwerk - ISBN 9789083567402 Katrien Schaubroeck Link to the website of the publisher Art–science collaborations in biotechnology research: a transdisciplinary approach In Trends in biotechnology:…

Tom Vanden Berghe hoogleraar Onderwijs Tom Vanden Berghe 2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2025-2026 Moleculaire celbiologie Moleculaire celbiologie Studiegidsnr: 1016FBDBIC Bachelor in de biochemie en biotechnologie Cellular stress and cell death signaling Cellular stress and cell death signaling Studi…