Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
KU Leuven LUCAS, Centre for care research and consultancy
LUCAS is an interdisciplinary research centre of KU Leuven, active in the fields of care and welfare. Its mission is threefold: research, trainin g and consultancy. In all three areas, LUCAS brings together insights fr om policy, practice and research, and this in constant dialogue with all stakeholders.
Over the past twenty years, LUCAS has specialise d in a number ...
The action of steroid hormones (more specifically androgens and vitamin D) and of polypeptide hormones (more specifically calcium regulating hormones); the regulation of these hormones and their significance in human disease; the role of these hormones in normal and abnormal cellular differentiation. Development of new techniques for the measurement of hormones, hormone-binding proteins and hormone receptors. Development of new vitamin D ...
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy
The ‘Neuro-Aging’ team focuses on glutamate transport, with emphasis on system xc - , in health and disease. We have ongoing projects on the role of system xc - or the cystine/glutamate antiporter in e.g. Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and (central effects of) (pancreatic) cancer. In most of these projects, neuroimmune communication is receiving increasing attention. Our overall hypothesis that inhibition of system xc - might be a ...
MICH develops research in the following areas: 1. Fundamental research on the replication cycle of poliovirus, research concentrates on the first steps of the cycle (adsorption, uncoating) and the last step (assembly); 2. Development of new poliovaccines (also biotech vaccines); 3. Fundamental research on antiviral compounds (in collaboration with Janssen Research Foundation); 4. Viruses on the origin of multiple sclerosis?; 5. Theiler murine ...
The Division Animal and Human Health Engineering (A2H) is a new division within the Department of Biosystems at KU Leuven consisting of a transdisciplinary team of researchers who are active in the field of animal and human health engineering.
The mission of A2H is stated as follows: