Process Safety Process Safety Micro-credential Process Safety Micro-credential Basic principles to identify common safety hazards, leading to correct safety assessments and understanding on how process safety is set-up for batch and full continuous processes. Protecting chemical processes by operati…

Master of Safety Sciences Master of Safety Sciences Master of Safety Sciences This programme is taught in Dutch. On these pages, and for informational purposes only, we provide basic information about this programme in English. To find out more, we kindly refer you to the detailed information in Dut…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Computer assistance in drug safety experiments 23/02/2022 - Haibo (ESR #3) This flyer shows the promise of computer-assisted predictive analytics in cardiovascular safety evaluation. Predictive analytics models are designed to discover patterns …

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Fireflies, enlightening our knowledge of drug safety 12/01/2022 - Marieke (ESR #11) Photinus pyralis, commonly called fireflies or lightning bugs, use bioluminescence to attract mates or prey. To do this, they produce an enzyme, a luciferase, wh…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content INSPIRE European Training Network in Safety Pharmacology (SP) Innovation in SP for integrated cardiovascular safety assessment to reduce adverse events and late stage drug attrition Publications Defended PhD thesis Mission and Objectives New dru…

Process Safety Enrol Micro-credential: Process Safety Enrol Micro-credential: Process Safety Admission and enrolment Admission requirements • Bachelor’s degree with a scientific or engineering basis or bachelor, master or preparatory program of safety sciences or access via EVC (recognition of a…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content 26/05/2021 - Callan (ESR#10) Ultrasound imaging is a common practice in clinical setups which has been around since the late 1950’s1. This technology is frequently used in pregnant women to gain insight into anatomical imaging2. However, our l…

Process Safety Programme info Micro-credential: Process Safety Programme info Micro-credential: Process Safety Course content The chemical industry is making products using chemical reactions on derivatives of natural resources, such as natural gas, crude oil, air, etc. In general, there are two typ…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Consortium An interational team INSPIRE is an EU-leading consortium of carefully selected beneficiaries (i.e. 5 academic and 5 industry R&D teams) with complementary expertise and skills in the field of safety pharmacology. Additionally, 10 part…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Beneficiaries The University of Antwerp is a young, dynamic and forward-thinking university (>20.000 students and >5000 staff). INSPIRE will rely on the expertise of the Physiopharmacology (PhysPharm) and the Cardiovasuclar Diseases (Cardiovasc)…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Training The training objective of INSPIRE is to deliver a new generation of multidisciplinary trained, creative and entrepreneurial researchers motivated to develop new solutions for safety pharmacology and drug development. Each ESR performs h…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Dissemination Publications Conference posters PhD Thesis Defended INSPIRE excludes the European Research Executive Agency of responsibility for any communication and any dissemination of results performed by the INSPIRE Team - in compliance with…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Research Project Architecture While SP has invested heavily in research for evaluation of drug-induced proarrhythmia risk, new forms of CV toxicity have emerged. For instance, SP is challenged to detect and interpret more subtle forms of functio…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Governance Internal IP review form Coordinator Office Scientific Coordination: prof. Dr. Pieter-Jan Guns (UAntwerp) Directors of training: prof. Dr. Guido De Meyer (UAntwerp) and Dr. Jean-Pierre Valentin (UCB Biopharma SRL) Project Management: P…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Supervisors Elena Matsa (Ncardia) Annie Delaunois (UCB) Jean-Pierre Valentin (UCB) Vitalina Gryshkova (UCB) Paul Volders (Maastricht University) Ron Heeren (Maastricht University) Berta Cillero Pastor (Maastricht University) Sylvain Bernasconi (…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Partners The Safety Pharmacology Society (SPS) is a non-profit organization that promotes knowledge, development, application, and training in Safety Pharmacology. The objective of Safety Pharmacology studies is to further the discovery, develop…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Publications 2025 Cherubin M, Delaunois A, Valentin JP, Alaerts M, Guns PJ, Gryshkova V. Bridging the gaps in detection of structural cardiotoxicity in stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes: promise of miR-133b, miR-184 and miR-208b-3p. Front Pharmac…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Secondments A secondment is a research training period spent by a fellow at the premises of a different beneficiary or partner organisation of INSPIRE. Click on the boxes below to look at the secondments scheme foreseen in the network and the gr…

Process Safety Model timetable Model timetable Model timetable Process safety Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary cookies They are necessary for the proper functioning of the website and can not be switched off. They are generally defined only as a result of actions you carry out and that enable …

Process Safety Study programme Micro-credential: Process Safety Study programme Micro-credential: Process Safety 2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2025-2026 Micro-credential: Process safety 3 ECTS-credits Process safety Course code: 2300WETPRS Semester: 2E SEM Contact hours: 30 ECTS-credits: 3 ECTS-cred…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content #HEARIN'spire podcast #HEARIN'spire - Hilarious Deleted scenes #HEARIN'spire - Episode 1 Belgian fries are not for vegans #HEARIN'spire - Episode 2 If Callan can do it, everybody can do it #HEARIN'spire - Episode 3 It’s all about the food #HEA…

Law Enforcement search menu search content Safety and prevention Safety and prevention Risks and uncertainty/insecurity are essential characteristics of today’s society. Recent developments in the field of, inter alia, new technologies (digitisation, robotisation…), increasing economic and socia…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Numerical simulation 02/06/2021 - Sara (ESR #8) In the poster, you see pressure signals obtained from in silico modelling in different conditions, i.e. in a compliant (healthy) and stiff (aged) blood vessel. The picture shows P0 (blue), which is…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Created impact INSPIRE excludes the European Research Executive Agency of responsibility for any communication and any dissemination of results performed by the INSPIRE Team - in compliance with the art. 38.1.3 and 29.5 of the grant agreement 85…

INSPIRE safety pharmacology search menu search content Summer schools Three Summer schools of one week will be organized to allow the ESRs from different disciplines to interact with each other while taking part in an interactive and hands-on training. Each Summer school is divided in theoretical se…