The department of Experimental anatomy is a basis for fundamental research of topographical, functional and clinical anatomy, polarised around the human body and its body composition. Both dissections (a detailed study of the interior human body) and plastine studies (made of prepared parts of the human body) are elements of every students' contact with anatomy. The research findings (Anatomical variations and detailed mapping experiments) ...
Current research of the Anatomy Department of the Free University of Brussels is mainly concentrated on: 1° Study of the mechanisms leading to glomerulosclerosis in experimental models of chronic renal failure; 2° Transplantation of liver progenitor cells; 3° Arthrokinematics and morphologic anatomic studies; 4° Clinical research on knee pathology.
The Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy department is one of two departments of the Faculty LK. It conducts research and provides education in the domains of anatomy, human physiology and physiotherapy.
The department is responsible for graduate teaching in Pathologic Anatomy and (post)graduate training in Experimental Pathology. The goal is to train (bio)medical students and graduates in projects which address questions in Tissue and Cell Pathology. Technical expertise is mainly in the areas of histology, immunocytochemistry, mechanisms of cell death and regeneration, in situ hybridisation, electron microscopy. Issues in surgical pathology ...