Organisations
Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology (Rega Institute) KU Leuven
The research team of Prof. Vandamme is investigating factors influencing antiviral treatment response in HIV infected patients with a special focus on the impact of virus drug resistance. The team is responsible for drug resistance testing in clinical practice at the local AIDS Reference Laboratory. Another research topic involves the evolution and molecular epidemiology of human viruses, seeking to understand in particular the origin and ...
Clinical Virology Institute of Tropical Medicine
Department of Biomedical molecular biology Ghent University
Follicle Biology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Basic aims of the Follicle Biology Laboratory, led by Prof. Ellen Anckaert are the design and validation of new culture systems for ovarian follicles and unripe egg cells to establish practical, applicable strategies for fertility clinics.
Fundamental and pre-clinical research:
1) optimization of multistep systems for in vitro follicle activation, growth and maturation: mouse in vitro models for culturing ovarian follicles ...
Biology of the Testis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Our research team studies spermatogenesis with a special focus on spermatogonial stem cells. Our current aim is to develop strategies in order to prevent infertility after gonadotoxic treatments. Fertility can be preserved by either limiting the loss of gametes and their precursors or by storing gametes and/or their precursors. Gonadotoxicity is an important side effect of cancer treatments. While adult men can bank their spermatozoa prior to ...
Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center KU Leuven
The Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center focuses its research on the understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of skeletal tissue formation, remodeling and repair.
The Center thereby aims to develop treatments for skeletal disorders, in particular regenerative strategies for cartilage, bone and joint repair. These approaches include the manufacturing of novel class Advanced Therapeutic Medicinal Products, towards we ...
Laboratory of cell biology and histology University of Antwerp
Cell Biology and Histology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Department of Cell Biology (CYTO-VUB) is specialized in molecular and cellular liver research, with a main focus on the (patho)biology of hepatic stellate cells and liver progenitor cells. Prof. A. Geerts contributed to the first paper on isolation, purification and culturing of hepatic stellate cells (1) and is the author of a side scatter activated cell sorting method to purify freshly isolated hepatic stellate cell up to 95 - 100% (2). ...
Computational Cancer Biology and Epigenomics KU Leuven
Cancers are highly heterogeneous entities, both within a single tumor and across patients. Intratumoral heterogeneity stems from the spectrum of cancer cell clones and the dynamic cellular composition of the tumour microenvironment. Cross-patient heterogeneity is based on the multitude of cancer cells-of-origin and patient-specific combinations of germline and somatic genetic variants driving the tumorigenesis. Despite recent major ...