Projects
Optimization of the counseling on emergency contraception using ‘audit-feedback’ and ‘serious gaming’ implementation strategies KU Leuven
Hormonal emergency contraception is commonly used, as shown by the large number of packages that are dispensed annually in Belgian community pharmacies. From a societal perspective, it is essential that emergency contraception is used correctly and with the necessary professional guidance. As the emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) can be dispensed and reimbursed ‘over-the-counter’, community pharmacists have a crucial role in ensuring its ...
Optimizing drug therapy in high risk older patients KU Leuven
The global population is ageing. This evolution prompts new needs for health care that urgently need to be addressed. Briefly, older adults use more health care resources overall and are more regularly admitted to the hospital. Those hospital admissions represent a substantial portion of national health care budgets. Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications have been shown to be important risk factors associated with such ...
Improve the reprogramming of human adult skin-derived fibroblasts into functional hepatocytes by directed evolution of hepatocyte nuclear factors Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A roadmap to the safe introduction of hESC in the clinic: the case of genetic mosaicism in hESC-derived retinal cells Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Elucidating the mechanisms of drug-induced cholestasis as the basis for improved animal-free prediction of drug-induced liver injury Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Development of a NanoCAR-T cell approach for the treatment of multiple myeloma Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Cancer cells usually look ...
Modulating epigenetic mechanisms to enhance cancer immunotherapy. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Shades of grey: Analyzing shifts across the white, grey, black and criminal segments of the pharmaceutical market and the challenges of their control KU Leuven
The proposed project is intended I) to identify the market segments of the Belgian and Indian pharmaceutical market on the basis of their legal status (thus from fully legal to fully criminal) and the legal nature of the offence or violation at hand (e.g., criminal law offence or violation under intellectual protection (IP) law, other civil or administrative law); II) to analyze actors’ and products’ shifts across these segments; and III) to ...