Projects
Gender Reassignment Surgery as a Moral Challenge: A Theological-Ethical Investigation with a Focus on the Indian Context KU Leuven
Gender reassignment surgery (GRS) is widely presented and practiced as a promising and competent treatment option for gender dysphoria in the Indian context recently. Though there occur discussions on the medical and legal aspects, the ethical discussion on GRS is almost non-existing in the present context. The absence of a normative ethical framework on GRS in India creates moral confusion among the stakeholders as well as among common ...
A linguistic analysis of indexical markers of identity in Flemish job interviews in a changing recruitment context: A sociolinguistic-pragmatic mixed methods study KU Leuven
Unveiling Sport’s Instrumental Role: A Postcolonial Analysis of Sport for Development and Peace Policy in Flanders, with a Focus on Individuals with a Migration Background KU Leuven
This research investigates the role of sport in social development in Flanders, Belgium, with a focus on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) policies targeting individuals with a migration background. While sport is widely seen as a universal tool for social development, this study examines the extent to which SDP policies in Flanders address the needs of specific groups, particularly those labeled as 'disadvantaged' or 'marginalized.' The ...
Motivational counseling as a lever for sustainable re-employment and higher well-being: the development and evaluation of a training protocol in a health insurance context KU Leuven
Over the last years, the number of patients on sick leave has increased which leads to increased expenditures for our social security system. In 2016 the federal expenses linked to absence from work were larger than those for unemployment for the first time in Belgium. Absence from work can be evaluated in different ways. For a long period of time, occupational and health insurance physicians used merely a biomedical approach with a focus on ...
A Tale of Furan and Nucleic Acids: A journey through the exploration of furan chemistry as a versatile tool for nucleic acid targeting. Ghent University
MMbio will bridge the classically separate disciplines of Chemistry and Biology by assembling leading experts from academia and non-academic partners (industry, technology transfer & science communication) to bring about systems designed to interfere therapeutically with gene expression in living cells. Expertise in nucleic acid synthesis, its molecular recognition and chemical reactivity is combined with drug delivery, cellular biology ...
Community-based participatory research and connecting partnership as a basis for a diverse-sensitive assistance offer for families with a migration background in Ghent HOGENT
Magenta@Brussel: Magenta is translating its existing offer for parents with a special need due to a limitation or a chronic illness between 0 and 14 years to the Brussels context KU Leuven
Magenta is translating its existing offer for parents of children with a special need due to a limitation or a chronic illness between 0 and 14 years to the Brussels context. Magenta develops supporting tools for this together with the parents from Brussels and from the user's perspective.
Phonobet - A new phonetic alphabet Can a new visual typographical system, representing the pronunciation of several languages, build a bridge in understanding language related phonemes and thus assists in reading aloud with the correct pronunciation? Hasselt University
Bioinformatics for a high-throughput deep mutational scanning protein-protein interaction assay: turning a prototype into a precision medicine toolbox Ghent University
This proposal contributes to the development of a high-throughput method to characterize the impact of nearly every mutation on specific protein-protein interactions. After bioinformatics-driven experimental optimization, this method will be applied to tumor-driver protein interactions (TP53, PTEN, PIK3R1) and results compared to large-scale tumor mutation and gene expression data. This will allow to demonstrate the major relevance for ...