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The Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine conducts a research program focused on different aspects of both emergency and disaster medicine : * Emergency Medicine: Training, Quality Assessment and Quality Improvement, Information Technology (IT)-applications, Data-management and Process-analysis, Outcome predictors in emergency medicine, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Developments in medical imaging techniques , Patient ...

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 ...

Laboratory for Systems Medicine:

The Systems Medicine Lab at KU Leuven is part of BIO3, which has pillars in GIGA-R at the University of Liège (Belgium) and in the Center for Human Genetics at KU Leuven (Belgium). BIO3's activities take place at the intersection of Biostatistics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics. The group leader is Professor Dr. Dr. Kristel Van Steen who is an expert in these areas.

BIO3 has built up a recognized ...

Endocrinology: The ovaries and other reproductive organs are in continuous interaction with the pituitary and the thyroid. The interplay may account for infertility occurring at different levels and may render the diagnosis difficult. Thyroid disorders, both hyperthyroidism and hypthyroidism, can interact with the ovaries, through a direct effect on the and indirect through alterations of the SHBG levels, the PRL levels and the coagulation ...

Convincing evidence continues to emerge from clinical trials that gene therapy is yielding therapeutic effects in patients suffering from a wide range of diseases. Moreover. the use of adult stem cells and the reprogramming of cells towards pluripotency are being heralded as some of the most promising developments in regenerative medicine at the forefront of medical innovation. This mirrors worldwide efforts in some of the leading research ...

The faculty of Medicine is sub-divided in "The Faculty of Medicine Administrative Direction", "Student and Programme Office" "Dean's Office", "Academic Consultants", "Teaching and Learning Office" and "The Alumni".