Advanced master of Youth Health Care Learning outcomes Learning outcomes Compentence area 1: Expert youth health care 1. Thorough knowledge and advanced insight in the concepts of health and disease, health promotion and disease prevention, focused on infants, children and adolescents, and acting ac…

Henry Blom onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Henry Blom From 'best practice' to 'best Fit' : evaluating the implementation of Video Reflexive Ethnography as an improvement tool in a NICU setting Bron SSM : qualitative research in health - ISSN 2667-3215-8 (2025) p. 1-13 Auteur(s) Henry Blom, Jessic…

David Van Laere onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties David Van Laere Outcomes of extremely preterm infants who participated in a randomised trial of dopamine for treatment of hypotension (the HIP trial) at 2 years corrected age Bron Archives of disease in childhood : fetal and neonatal edition - ISSN …

Ine Wouters senior researcher Research Ine Wouters Research team Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination (CEV) Expertise Study on nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other pathogens in children (6-30 months) with acute otitis media and in healthy children (6-30 months) residing …

Heidi Theeten associate professor Research Heidi Theeten Research team Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination (CEV) Expertise dr Theeten conducted clinical trials with candidate vaccines against different diseases (hepatitis A and B, adult diphtheria‐tetanus‐pertussis booster, human papilloma …

Laboratory of Medical Microbiology search menu search content LAB-Net assists in reducing neonatal infections The NeoDeco study, led by Fondazione Penta EST, is creating an impact in neonatal care. This innovative study investigates whether optimised kangaroo care can reduce severe infections, sepsi…

Centre for Evaluation of Vaccination search menu search content Vaccine preventable diseases and pregnancy Ongoing research Our research on vaccine preventable diseases and pregnancy includes a range of themes, such as experiments describing the presence and persistence of maternal passively acquire…

Elke Leuridan unpaid guest prof. Research Elke Leuridan Research team Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination (CEV) Expertise During the past 10 years, we developed specific skills in conducting clinical trrials with vaccines in pregnant women. This is a vulnerable population, often excluded from t…

Sanae Makhout doctoraatsbursaal Publicaties Sanae Makhout Nocturnal oximetry in infants : reference values and diagnostic accuracy for upper airway obstruction Bron Respiratory medicine - ISSN 0954-6111-245 (2025) p. 1-10 Auteur(s) Anastasios-Panagiotis Chantzaras, Maria Eleni Liagkaki, Angeliki Mou…

Psychotherapie Opleidingsinfo Opleidingsinfo Opleidingsinfo Dit postgraduaat omvat 4 deeltijdse studiejaren van 85 studiepunten en start om de twee jaar. De volgende opleidingscyclus start in oktober 2025. De contactmomenten vinden plaats van oktober tot juni op donderdagen (van 13.30 tot 19.30 uur)…

Centre for Evaluation of Vaccination search menu search content Evaluation of immunization programs Ongoing research projects Monitoring the impact of HPV vaccination through surveys of HPV DNA prevalence in urine samples from adolescents Abstract: This project represents a formal research agreement…

Sabrina Laroche onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Sabrina Laroche One year respiratory and neurodevelopmental outcome of premature neonates after exposure to plasticizers in the neonatal intensive care unit : a prospective cohort study Bron Environmental research - ISSN 0013-9351-274 (2025) p. 1-10…

Kirsten Maertens assistant professor - senior researcher Research Kirsten Maertens Research team Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination (CEV) Pregnancy and Infant Preparedness Platform in Europe (PIPELINE). 01/01/2025 - 31/12/2028 Abstract Recent epidemics have highlighted how infectious disease o…

Henry Blom unpaid staff Publications Henry Blom From 'best practice' to 'best Fit' : evaluating the implementation of Video Reflexive Ethnography as an improvement tool in a NICU setting Source SSM : qualitative research in health - ISSN 2667-3215-8 (2025) p. 1-13 Author(s) Henry Blom, Jessica Mesma…

David Van Laere unpaid staff Publications David Van Laere Outcomes of extremely preterm infants who participated in a randomised trial of dopamine for treatment of hypotension (the HIP trial) at 2 years corrected age Source Archives of disease in childhood : fetal and neonatal edition - ISSN 1359-29…

Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Excellence in Antwerp search menu search content Strategic vision and research goals The consortium contributes to the scientific knowledge at an international level of excellence: Polio vaccine clinical trials in containment Other human challenge studies in containme…

Centre for Evaluation of Vaccination search menu search content Clinical trials What we do The Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccinations (CEV): a clinical trial centre, specialized in the conduct of vaccine trials: ⇒ Phase I until phase IV trials. ⇒ Trials for a range of companies. ⇒ In all ag…

Ludo Mahieu unpaid guest prof. Research Ludo Mahieu Research team Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP) Pertussis immunization during pregnancy: assessment of the role of maternal antibodies on immune responses in term and preterm infants: the MAMA study. 01/01/2015 - 31/12/2018 Abs…

Juliette Masquelier onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Juliette Masquelier Protecting health and the Catholic family : Catholic Women’s League and preventive medicine clinics for mothers and infants in Belgium (1945–1975) Bron Social history of medicine - ISSN 0951-631X- (2025) p. 1-23 Auteur(s)…

Centre for Evaluation of Vaccination search menu search content PhD theses List of Phd theses defended 2017 Effects of pertussis vaccination during pregnancy. Kirsten Maertens, Universiteit Antwerpen Promoters: Elke Leuridan & Pierre Van Damme 2016 Detection of HPV DNA in urine: demonstration, optim…

Sofie Schaerlaekens predoc researcher FWO Research Sofie Schaerlaekens Research team Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) Defining a Correlate of Protection (CoP) for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV): focus on the F protein and infants. 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2027 Abstract Sever…

Jessica Bots domeincoördinator - gastprofessor externe fondsen Publicaties Jessica Bots No relationship between vertebral column shifts and limb fluctuating asymmetry in human foetuses Bron PeerJ - ISSN 2167-8359-6 (2017) p. Auteur(s) Claartje ten Broek, Jessica Bots, Marianna Bugiani, Frietson Gal…

Sabrina Laroche unpaid staff Publications Sabrina Laroche One year respiratory and neurodevelopmental outcome of premature neonates after exposure to plasticizers in the neonatal intensive care unit : a prospective cohort study Source Environmental research - ISSN 0013-9351-274 (2025) p. 1-10 Author…

Paul Govaerts unpaid guest prof. Research Paul Govaerts Research team Speech and language acquisition in Dutch speaking children with different degrees of hearing: Hearing children and deaf children with a cochlear implant. 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2009 Abstract The aim of this project is to investigate s…

Jérémy Genette postdoc researcher FWO Research Jérémy Genette Research team Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS) Expertise My research approach is mainly quantitative and inspired by laboratory phonology. My research has two main focuses: the phone…