Organisations
Academic Center for General Practice KU Leuven
The department's research is organized within four large programmes with significant interactions between them: development of instruments and outcome measurement, educational research, clinical epidemiology and health care organisation research. It focusses on a broad range of clinical situations, with care for the elderly and diagnostics as its corner-stones. 1. Instrument development and outcome research Together with 11 other institutes ...
Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy
Gerontology and Geriatrics KU Leuven
Our division focuses on gerontological and geriatric research and includes basic through clinical studies, with special expertise in clinical trial design in old age. Over the past years, three main research lines have been established: ‘musculoskeletal frailty in the elderly’, ‘cognitive disorders and dementia in the elderly’, and ‘models and quality of healthcare for the elderly’. Here, we focus on research on osteoporosis, sarcopenia and ...
Sleegers Lab Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Biomedical Statistics and Informatics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the area of statistics research is done concerning multivariate statistical methods, in particular cluster analysis, which is the discipline studying methods for finding groups in data. The work done in this study group consists of the development, computer implementation, and application of clustering methods. The study group is also active in collaborative research with other groups of the School of Medicine in the application of ...
Biostatistics and medical informatics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Biostatistics and Medical Informatics department at the medical campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is involved in education and R&D covering the fields of (bio)statistics, medical informatics and E-health.
The members of the team are involved in teaching statistics and computer science mainly in the faculty of medicine and pharmacy of the VUB in Jette. The department coordinates the "master after master in ...
Cardiac Surgery KU Leuven
Protection of the heart against ischemic damage - Myocardial protection in isolated hearts with NMR during cardiac surgery: global myocardial ischemia. (joint study). - 24 hours preservation of the heart 'ex vivo' for cardiac transplantation. - Postischemic myocardial dysfunction and influence of inotropic drugs. - Isolated heart ischemia and influence of volatile anaesthesia. - Cardiopulmonary bypass techniques. - Isolated heart-perfusion ...
Centre for Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology KU Leuven
Learning and memory processes in psychological function and dysfunction, in particular in relation to anxiety, depression and substance use, including:
- - Basic and applied research on emotional changes, especially with regard to anxiety and depression.
- - The role of classical (Pavlovian) conditioning in evaluative processes.
- - Psychophysiological measurements with computer-assisted data processing.
- - Basic ...
Centre for Statistics Hasselt University
The Center for Statistics has an international reputation in statistical research (both theoretical and applied). In the domain of mathematical statistics, research is carried out in a.o. the following fields: bootstrap methods, smoothing techniques, censored data, asymptotic theory. Research in applied statistics focuses on biostatistics (longitudinal data analysis, clustered data, missing data, multivariate methods, clinical trials, ...