BOF ZAP in Vaccinology Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
Development of a rapid, sensitive, and reproducible method for the ex-vivo detection, quantification and characterization of cell-mediated immune responses induced by natural infection or vaccination. This method will hopefully enable us to replace the applied laborious and expensive methodologies thereby increasing the applicability of these types of immune monitoring methods in large (field) trials. This simplified method will allow for ...
Antiviral drugs are only available for a handful of viruses. Also in the vaccine field a similar scenario can be seen. For many other viral infections that pose an important treat to human health (including re-emerging & neglected infections), there are no antiviral strategies available. The changing ecosystem increases the pressure on the appearance of (novel) viruses (with epidemic/pandemic potential). With this project, we aim to ...
Salivarian trypanosomes are single-celled extracellular parasites that reside in the blood, lymphatics, and various tissues. They cause infections in humans, livestock, and game animals. Trypanosomes thrive in plain sight of the immune system, by deploying multiple evolutionary acquired evasion strategies, which aim at avoiding antibody-mediated destruction as much as possible. Interestingly, assessing experimental infections has shown that ...
CORE CTC² has a main goal to provide and centralize all relevant basic equipment and expertise within the domain of tissue and cell culture of human origin (or animal models representing human disease).