Projects
Little Nirvana: the immersive virtual reality experience helping kids fight pain KU Leuven
Millions of children endure painful medical events annually, such as vaccinations, blood sampling, minor surgery or invasive examinations – understandably, a scary prospect for children. Their fear of a potentially painful treatment can make treatment difficult and lead to anxiety before any medical intervention, even in adult life.
Pain is a vital sign that needs addressing, according to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of ...
No pain during infancy by adapting off-patent medicines. (NeoOpioid) University of Antwerp
Infradev - European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure (ID-EPTRI). University of Antwerp
Validation of Actionable Genomic ABerrations in a paediatric Oncology Network for Doctorate students Ghent University
Pre-clinical drug development for paediatric cancers is very complex, resource intensive and requiring multi-disciplinary expertise and innovative approaches. The VAGABOND ITN, consisting of 12 academic and 6 non-academic partners from 8 European countries, aims to create a multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral program to validate new therapeutic interventions in paediatric cancer. This network will be sustainable embedded in the ITCC ...
Solving the unsolved Rare Diseases (Solve-Rd). University of Antwerp
A SIOPEN pragmatic clinical trial to MOnitor NeuroblastomA relapse with LIquid biopsy Sensitive Analysis Ghent University
High-risk neuroblastoma accounts for 15% of cancer related-deaths in children. Half of the >1500 patients yearly diagnosed with neuroblastoma in the EU have high-risk disease, which will relapse or progress in half these cases after first-line treatment. Relapsed neuroblastoma is aggressive and often therapy-resistant. Monitoring for disease relapse and therapy response is crucial for thesurvival chance of these patients. The current ...
Health-promotion through obesity prevention across Europe: an integrated analysis to support European health policy Ghent University
The present proposal focuses on overweight and obesity as one of the main determinants of loss of healthy life years and of health disparities in Europe. In particular, it focuses on expanding understanding of the key lifestyle factors nutrition and physical activity, which are the major proximal determinants of overweight and obesity. It aims at identifying (I) socio-economic and environmental determinants of these behaviours and (II) ...