Organisations
Department of Data-analysis Ghent University
Academic Center for General Practice KU Leuven
The department's research is organized within four large programmes with significant interactions between them: development of instruments and outcome measurement, educational research, clinical epidemiology and health care organisation research. It focusses on a broad range of clinical situations, with care for the elderly and diagnostics as its corner-stones. 1. Instrument development and outcome research Together with 11 other institutes ...
Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy
Gerontology and Geriatrics KU Leuven
Our division focuses on gerontological and geriatric research and includes basic through clinical studies, with special expertise in clinical trial design in old age. Over the past years, three main research lines have been established: ‘musculoskeletal frailty in the elderly’, ‘cognitive disorders and dementia in the elderly’, and ‘models and quality of healthcare for the elderly’. Here, we focus on research on osteoporosis, sarcopenia and ...
Sleegers Lab Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Biomechanics Section KU Leuven
The research activities of the division are concentrated in three areas of biomechanics: 1. FUNDAMENTAL BONE RESEARCH: Both the relation between bone structure and its mechanical properties and the influence of mechanical sollicitation on bone remodelling are investigated. These relations are particularly relevant for the study and comprehension of fracture healing mechanisms and of osteoporosis. The division uses state of the art engineering ...
Biomedical Statistics and Informatics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the area of statistics research is done concerning multivariate statistical methods, in particular cluster analysis, which is the discipline studying methods for finding groups in data. The work done in this study group consists of the development, computer implementation, and application of clustering methods. The study group is also active in collaborative research with other groups of the School of Medicine in the application of ...
Biostatistics and medical informatics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Biostatistics and Medical Informatics department at the medical campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is involved in education and R&D covering the fields of (bio)statistics, medical informatics and E-health.
The members of the team are involved in teaching statistics and computer science mainly in the faculty of medicine and pharmacy of the VUB in Jette. The department coordinates the "master after master in ...
Body Composition and Morphology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The research group LIMO is mainly focused on changes in Body composition and morphology in people with under-, normal- and overweight, in different age groups (children, adolescents and elderly persons) and activity level (sedentary, moderate active and athletes), as well as the validation of techniques and devices used to detect this changes. Quality control and critical appraisal of the reliability of body composition data acquisition ...