Christof Vulsteke unpaid guest prof. Research Christof Vulsteke Research team Acquired immunity and immunologic aspects of SARS-CoV-2 infection a population of patients and healthcare workers in Multidisciplinary Oncologic Centres. (MOCOR-Study). 01/06/2020 - 31/05/2021 Abstract COVID-19 is a diseas…

University Fund search menu search content Testimonial researcher Hearing loss and the importance of prevention Hearing loss is one of the most frequent sensory impairments, affecting more than 1.5 billion people worldwide. Its impact on quality of life and society in general is therefore enormous. …

Manon Huizing unpaid staff Research Manon Huizing Research team Acquired immunity and immunologic aspects of SARS-CoV-2 infection a population of patients and healthcare workers in Multidisciplinary Oncologic Centres. (MOCOR-Study). 01/06/2020 - 31/05/2021 Abstract COVID-19 is a disease caused by an…

University Fund search menu search content Testimonial initiator Making pelvic floor problems a topic for discussion Hedwig Neels, initiator and driving force behind The Pelvic Floor, is a physiotherapist herself by training and very passionate about her profession. We recently had an interesting ch…

Social Sciences 1. What was your favorite course during your student days? The course “Sociology of Media,” taught by Prof. Keith Roe, who would later also become the supervisor of my doctorate. That course discussed how our social position explains our media use and the impact of media use on i…

Guido Vanham unpaid staff Research Guido Vanham Research team Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) Expertise Immuno-virology og HIV, including prevebtion and therapeutic vaccination Cell-associated HIV RNA as a superior marker of treatment success or failure. 01/01/2015 - 31/…

Peter Van Dam emeritus occasional assignment Research Peter Van Dam Research team Center for Oncological Research (CORE) Expertise Translational investigations in breat and cervical cancer Immune environment in inflammatory breast cancer and cervical cancer Effect of Denosumab on the immune environm…

Press releases 2020 'Preventive malaria treatment improves children's performance at school' (26/10/2020) UAntwerp involved in large-scale international research to be published in The Lancet. School-aged children who are given anti-malaria drugs preventively are only half as likely to catch the dis…

Wim Vanden Berghe full professor Research Wim Vanden Berghe Research team Cell death signaling (CDS) Expertise Pyrosequencing is a fast, simple and quantitative method for analysis of CpG methylation, mutation analysis, SNP analysis in multiple sites in a single assay and eliminates the reliance on …

Marc Peeters full professor Research Marc Peeters Research team Center for Oncological Research (CORE) Expertise My expertise is in the field of oncology or cancer research. It is mainly focused on clinical translational research. This domain is very broad and ranges from bio-research to clinical st…

Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Unveiling the Hidden Human Virome: A Genomic and Spatiotemporal Approach to Viral Surveillance in Wastewater. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2026 Abstract Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) analyzes human…

Center for Oncological Research search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Overcoming fundamental hurdles for future development of novel and highly effective targeted and personalized pancreatic cancer therapies. 01/01/2026 - 30/09/2029 Abstract Pancreatic cancer is till today the deadlie…