– Diether Lambrechts grew up in Diepenbeek and attended Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Genk before studying bioengineering at KU Leuven. — © Guy Puttemans – Leuven – The Limburg top scientist Diether Lambrechts (45) will receive a prestigious European subsidy of 2.5 million euros. This ERC Advanced Grant should give an extra boost to his groundbreaking … Read more
Thousands of websites can view without the user’s permission if you enter your e-mail address on an online form. You don’t even have to click send. This is apparent from a large-scale study by KU Leuven, Radboud University and the University of Lausanne. – According to the researchers, someone who wants to subscribe to an … Read more
– Yasmina Abakkouy won both the audience award and the jury award of Falling Walls Lab. — © KU Leuven – Houthalen-Helchteren/Leuven – What is the best tool to find out if someone will ever get Alzheimer’s disease? Yasmina Abakkouy (27) from Houthalen-Helchteren is investigating this in her PhD. In November she will be able … Read more
For the ambitious James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the moment of truth succeeded on Saturday, as shown on NASA TV: the full extension of the main mirror. It was fully deployed at 4.28 pm Belgian time, when the telescope was 1,069,000 km away from us. The main mirror has a diameter of 6.5 meters and … Read more
– Professor Johan Neyts in his virus lab. — © put – Virusbank Leuven – Omikron is grown in… Leuven. To analyze of course. The alarming new variant of the coronavirus will be given a place in the ‘virus bank’ that is being built at KU Leuven. A high-tech library of viral disasters, with an … Read more
– © Guy Puttemans – Virologist Johan Neyts and his team at the Leuven Rega Institute have a promising vaccine candidate against the delta variant. In tests on hamsters, the vaccine has been shown to be extremely effective. KU Leuven researchers have been looking for a vaccine since the start of the pandemic. They have … Read more
– Professor Dries Martens of Hasselt University: “Prevention is better than cure, and also more cost-effective. This research can help with that.” — © Tom Palmaers – Science Hasselt/Leuven – Researchers from Hasselt University and KU Leuven analyze proteins in urine samples to determine the biological age of individuals. For example, they can see whether … Read more
– © Getty Images – Researchers from the Rega Institute of KU Leuven and CD3 (Centre for Drug Design and Discovery) have developed an antiviral agent against dengue. The university announced this on Wednesday. The agent is particularly effective against all known variants of the dengue virus, and can be used both preventively and curatively. … Read more
CoMoveIT, a spin-off of the KU Leuven Campus Bruges, has developed a smart wheelchair that uses sensors and artificial intelligence. The wheelchair is specifically intended for persons who have difficulty using the joystick on power wheelchairs. ‘This concerns, for example, wheelchair users with cerebral palsy. They are in a lock-in: they are, as it were, … Read more
– Coronacommissaris Pedro Facon. — © BELGA – Brussels – The Consultation Committee will consider the advice of a brand new expert group next Friday. This new advisory board was set up by Corona commissioner Pedro Facon and consists of 24 experts. – Facebook Twitter Whatsapp MailFill — Infectiologist Erika Vlieghe, a Facon employee, will … Read more