Global Change Ecology search menu search content How deep is the sleep of tree buds in winter? How deep is the sleep of tree buds in winter? A more erratic sleep for deciduous trees than previously thought is discovered. A new study by Romain Garrigues and co-authors showed that while absence of win…

The Great Corona Study search menu search content Results survey 2 Three out of four work from home Second wave of UAntwerp’s Great Corona Study also enquired about mental well-being On Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of Belgians filled in the UAntwerp corona questionnaire again. An initial analysi…

Inge Glazemakers associate professor Research Inge Glazemakers Research team Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI) Expertise Studies about child and adolescent mental health. -Cross-sectoral collaboration for children and adolescents with multiple and complex needs/multiple pr…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Patrick MITASHI Novel diagnostic tests for human African trypanosomiasis: what is their role in primary health care services? Thesis summary Introduction The control of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is mainly based on active case detection (i.…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Uganda Research Platform Welcome to the Uganda 'HEFS' Platform The Health, Environment and Food Security ('HEFS') platform is a research platform sponsored by the Belgian Development Cooperation through the VLIR-UOS. The Platform comprises of 5 Flem…

Ilse De Volder unpaid staff Publications Ilse De Volder Prevalence of insomnia and sleep habits during the first and second wave of COVID-19 in Belgium Source Psychologica Belgica - ISSN 0033-2879-63:1 (2023) p. 18-29 Author(s) Aurore Roland, Clara Colomb, Stephane Noel, Arcady Putilov, Halszka Ogin…

Dorien Mabille postdoc researcher FWO Research Dorien Mabille Research team Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) The role of tissue sanctuary niches in naturally transmitted Trypanosoma infections. 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2026 Abstract African trypanosomiasis is a tsetse fly trans…

Infla-Med search menu search content News Infla-Med is coordinating a new HORIZON-MSCA-Doctoral Network 'OncoProTools' April 2022: Happy to announce that Infla-Med is coordinating a new HORIZON-MSCA-Doctoral Network! OncoProTools was granted 2.3 million € to train 10 Doctoral Candidates in the fie…

Reuse Lab search menu search content REDOSE Sustainability in the operating room: anaesthesia Immense piles of disposable waste are created daily in the operating room. Practicing anesthesia is a major contributor to the creation of this waste. How can an anesthesiologist perform his/her duties in a…

Annick Gilles assistant professor Research Annick Gilles Research team Expertise Randomized- controlled trials, statistics, imaging on topics: tinnitus, hearing, cogniton, vestibular The HuNT project: A Human Neuroimaging study investigating somatic Tinnitus mechanisms. 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2026 Abstr…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Neglected Tropical Diseases Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of 20 conditions* that are mainly prevalent in tropical areas, where they mostly affect impoverished communities and disproportionately affect women and children. The…

Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene search menu search content LMPH Laboratory of Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene Welcome The Laboratory of Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) is an interdepartmental research group at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and V…

Robert Tholen unpaid staff Research Robert Tholen Research team Centre for Population, Family and Health For better health in university and college students: pin-pointing the interplay between social support, study stress, substance use and mental health across different study programs. 01/10/2017 …

Lecture series Death Care search menu search content Exhibition “The Nobodies”: Exploring the ethics of caring for unidentified dead bodies From Februari until May, we will host a free art exhibition on the topic of death care in the stairway of the R building (going towards -1). Embark on a poi…

Translational Neurosciences search menu search content Lab Dental Materials Introduction The research at our Lab Dental Materials focuses on (1) Research on dental sleep medicine and sleep apnea in the hospital, and (2) Development of research equipment for several research projects of our research …

Louis Maes emeritus with assignment Research Louis Maes Research team Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) Expertise - Antioxidant evaluation of pure compounds and extracts. - Integrated antimicrobial (bacteria, fungi, yeasts and parasites) screening and profiling of pure com…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Joseph OKEBE From control to elimination: reducing residual malaria transmission in The Gambia Summary Malaria endemic countries such as The Gambia, backed by political will and international funding, have significantly reduced the malaria burden. T…

Guy Caljon research professor Research Guy Caljon Research team Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH) Expertise - In vitro and in vivo preclinical models of parasitic infectious diseases - Natural parasite transmission models using insect vectors - Imaging methods to study inf…

Kris Van den Broeck assistant professor - principal research fellow Research Kris Van den Broeck Research team Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA) Expertise Public mental health (prevalence); mental health promotion and selfcare (in primary care professionals); stigma on mental health…

Sibyl Anthierens associate professor - senior researcher Research Sibyl Anthierens Research team Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA) Laboratory of Medical Microbiology (LMM) Expertise Professor dr Sibyl Anthierens is a social scientist. She is also the co-director of QUALUA (Qualitati…

Jean-Claude Dujardin associate professor Research Jean-Claude Dujardin Research team An investigation into the mechanisms of Plasmodium vivax chloroquine resistance (PvCQR): a transcriptomic/transgenic approach. 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Chloroquine resistance (PvCQR) in Plasmodium vivax, the…

Luc Moens emeritus occasional assignment Research Luc Moens Research team Expertise - in vitro expression of hemo-proteins in E. coli - protein purification and characterisation - protein sequencing - molecular biological techniques (PCR, cloning, hybridisation, celculture etc). Ion mobility high re…

Joachim Mariën assistant professor Research Joachim Mariën Research team Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) Expertise The fundamental part of my research aims to understand under what conditions pathogen transmission is more or less efficient in wildlife populations. For most zoonotic pathogens, s…

Student housing on the private market Who can rent student accommodation? Student housing can only be rented by students (e.g. degree students, exchange students, PhD students, ...). You must be able to provide proof of your student status (like a student card). Student rooms are mainly aimed at ind…

Ben Jeurissen associate research professor Research Ben Jeurissen Research team Vision lab Expertise My work is focused on extracting robust and clinically relevant information from quantitative MRI data acquired within realistic scan times. The novel acquisition and analysis techniques that I devel…