Projects
A Comprehensive Translational Research and Training Pipeline Harnessing Lipid Metabolism to Improve Prostate Cancer Management and Educate Young Researchers in Tackling Complex Disease KU Leuven
HIT-BACK-HEART: Effects of High Intensity Training on Mechanistic Pain Profiling and Heart Rate Variability in Persons with Chronic Low Back Pain Hasselt University
Supramaximal high-intensity interval training in persons with COPD: superior for cognitive health? Hasselt University
VITRIMAT: “Training in VITRImers: high performance MAterials and Trainees for cutting-edge industrial applications” Ghent University
Today’s plastics are either thermoplastics (TPs) composed of polymer chains, recyclable and processable at high throughput yet with poor heat and solvent resistance, or crosslinked thermosets (TSs) made of permanent polymer networks with far better thermomechanical properties and solvent resistance yet essentially intractable and non-recyclable once processed. Vitrimers are a new class of materials, rewarded by the 2015 European Inventor ...
MAeSTRo: neuro-Musculoskeletal ASsessement and TRaining for safe (e-)cycling KU Leuven
Towards a targeted therapy for diabetic neuropathy: a cross-sectional study and exercise training intervention to improve pathophysiological understanding. Ghent University
Approximately 50% of all patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) develop diabetic neuropathy (DNP), which leads to a decrease in muscle mass and strength. This sarcopenic effect can theoretically be attributed to a shift in muscle fiber type and a negative protein turnover, resulting from reduced mitochondrial function and inflammation. There are some studies that report a shift to a more anaerobic type IIx fibers in the case of T2DM, ...
Feeding muscle hypertrophy with atrophy: exploring simultaneous bidirectional skeletal muscle plasticity during resistance training Ghent University
Skeletal muscles have a remarkable plasticity to readily expand their size in response to increased activity and mechanical loading. The adaptive process of muscle hypertrophy is energetically expensive but is retained even in conditions of low dietary energy intake. Our preliminary data now show a surprising new phenomenon, i.e. that this muscle hypertrophy in trained muscles is sometimes accompanied with simultaneous muscle atrophy in ...
GRO Care Addendum: updating, training and aftercare KU Leuven
The aim of this research is twofold: (1) updating the current GRO Zorg Addendum on the basis of the new GRO interregional, (2) supporting VIPA in the application of the GRO Zorg addendum.
Language policy training program tailored to secondary schools in the Flemish periphery around Brussels. KU Leuven
Within this training programme, the Center for Language and Education (CTO) develops the necessary know-how among the participants to develop an effective language policy with the aim of strengthening their education and their students. They base this on recent (language learning) research and train core teams to become language policy experts. The core teams are given the necessary tools to involve the school team in developing and ...