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Tropical Infectious Diseases Research Group Institute of Tropical Medicine

The Tropical Infectious Diseases Group brings together expertise on neglected tropical diseases (in particular leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, leprosy as well as dengue and other arboviruses) and on common infectious diseases (such as malaria and TB) using a transdisciplinary perspective. The community perspective is key and addressed by a mixed methods approach. Priority topics for 2020-2024 are the science of disease elimination, eco-health ...

Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CHERMID) University of Antwerp

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The "Centre for Health Economic Research & Modelling Infectious Diseases" (CHERMID) has extensive expertise in health economics, biostatistics and mathematical models. CHERMID is multidisciplinary, currently employing 14 researchers, often with multiple backgrounds (economics, medicine, mathematics, statistics, informatics, physics, biology and (bio/commercial) engineering). CHERMID conducts both conceptual-methodological and applied ...

Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO) University of Antwerp

Integrated vaccine and microbiological research with a focus on increasing the understanding of the immune response in prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines (including tumour vaccines) and on the containment of antibiotic resistance. - Development of point of care diagnostic systems - Therapeutic and/or preventive (personalized) health care - Applied research with human vaccines - Research for surrogate biomerkers - Biobanking - Development of ...

Non-communicable Diseases Research Group Institute of Tropical Medicine

The Non-Communicable Diseases Group was created in late 2018 following a long-recognised need to strengthen ITM’s expertise in understanding and addressing the spreading NCD (such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers) epidemics in low-resource settings, areas traditionally burdened with infectious diseases. The overall motivation of the group is to understand the socioeconomical, behavioral and metabolic risks driving ...

Neglected Tropical Diseases Institute of Tropical Medicine

The Unit of HIV & Neglected Tropical Diseases was created in April 2015, building on the post-doctoral work of the current head (Johan van Griensven, internist/clinical epidemiologist).

The unit studies the interaction between neglected tropical diseases and other conditions such as HIV coinfection. The current main research area is visceral leishmaniasis (VL)-HIV coinfection in East-Africa. Research is conducted within a ...

Tropical Medicine Institute of Tropical Medicine

The Unit of Tropical Diseases has for long been part of the Department of Clinical Sciences, under the leading of Prof. Emeritus Jef Van Den Ende. It is led now since November 2012 by Prof. Emmanuel Bottieau (MD internal medicine/infectious diseases). It has strong collaborative links with the other units of the department, in particular the Unit of Travel Medicine, of Tropical Laboratory Medicine and of the recently created Unit of ...