PhD Students
- 26/09/2000 Gabrielle Thonus: Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of opioid-related prolyl peptides and pseudopeptides
- 10/11/2000 XueMei Zhang: Design, synthesis and evaluation of dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP IV) inhibitors
- 25/06/2002 Katie Amssoms: Glutathionylspermidine synthetase as a target in the design of new trypanocidal compounds
- 30/09/2002 Gunther Bal: Dipeptidyl peptidase IV and prolyl oligopeptidase: design, synthesis and evaluation of substrates and inhibitors
- 29/03/2004 Pieter Van der Veken: Design, synthesis and biochemical evaluation of peptidomimetic inhibitors of dipeptidyl-peptidase IV and dipeptidyl-peptidase II
- 31/03/2004 Kristel Senten: Design and synthesis of potent and selective inhibitors for dipeptidyl peptidase II
- 23/04/2004 Abdellah Yamani: Design, synthesis and evaluation of glutathionylspermidine synthetase inhibitors as potential trypanocidal drugs
- 24/10/2005 Jurgen Joossens: Synthesis and biochemical evaluation of matrix metalloproteinase and urokinase plasminogen activator inhibitors targeting angiogenesis and metastasis
- 30/10/2006 Annelies Goeminne: Development of nucleoside hydrolase inhibitors as potential antiparasitic agents
- 02/10/2007 Anna Soroka: Design and synthesis of potent and selective inhibitors for dipeptidyl peptidase II and dipeptidyl peptidase 8
- 26/06/2008 Steven Hostyn: Synthesis of aminoalkylamino-substituted neocryptolepine analogues: valorization of the cryptolepine alkaloids as antimalarials
- 24/11/2009 Koen Steert: Design, Synthesis and Biochemical Evaluation of New Cysteine Protease Inhibitors as Potential Antiparasitic Agents
- 21/05/2010 Maya Berg: Targeting the Trypanosomatidae: Inhibitor Development for Nucleoside Hydrolases and Metacaspases
- 05/09/2011 Sebastiaan Van Goethem: Structure-activity relationship studies on inhibitors of dipeptidyl peptidases 8 and 9: is selectivity an attainable goal?
- 13/06/2013 Jonas Messagie: Synthesis and biochemical evaluation of inhibitors and activity-based probes for uPA and related serine proteases
- 09/12/2013 Matthias Breugelmans: Cysteine protease inhibitors for protozoan infections: metacaspases as promising new targets
- 27/03/2014 Koen Jansen: Potent and selective inhibitors of fibroblast activation protein (FAP)
- 03/07/2015 Kurt Lebeau: Synthesis and structure-activity exploration of novel compound series with potential towards the treatment of systemic fungal infections
- 09/07/2015 Leen Heirbaut: Heteroannelated pyrrolidines and prolines as inhibitors of dipeptidyl peptidases and related enzymes
- 10/05/2016 Rafaela Gladysz: Fragment-based approaches to inhibitors of urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA)
- 16/12/2016 Matthias Cleenewerck: Discovery of novel Atg4B inhibitors with a benzotropolone core structure and therapeutic evaluation in a HT29 colon carcinoma mouse xenograft model
- 02/02/2017 Eleni Pitta: Structural investigation of two novel classes of quinoloxyacetamide- and hydantoin-based antimycobacterials guided by phenotypic screening and targeted approaches
- 04/09/2017 Yves Adriaenssens: Implementation of carboxylate isosteres to improve inflammatory caspase inhibitors
- 06/11/2017 Sam Hofmans: Identification, lead optimization and validation of necroptosis and ferroptosis inhibitors
- 10/11/2017 Jens Fissers: Optimization of biorthogonal pretargeting for immuno-PET imaging in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease
- 18/09/2018 Lars Devisscher: Discovering of necroptosis and ferroptosis inhibitors with potential applications in pathologies associated with regulated necrosis
- 09/10/2019 Carlos Morenos Cinos: Design, synthesis and characterization of alpha-amino diaryl phosphonates as serine protease inhibitors with applications in antimicrobial drug discovery
- 19/11/2019 Baán Adrienn: Formulation development of poorly water-soluble compounds using solubility enhancement methods
- 30/03/2020 Eduardo Ruivo: Development of novel chemical tools for bioorthogonal pretargeted PET imaging
- 04/10/2021 Pedro Santos Gonçalves: Strecker-type reactions and MSAS as tools for protease inhibitor discovery
- 17/11/2021 Olga Balabon: Profiling and structural investigation of dihydrotriazine-based DHFR inhibitors and hydantoin-derived DprE1 inhibitors in search of novel antimycobacterials
- 27/06/2023 Alba Ramos Llorca: Design, synthesis and evaluation of novel activity-based probes and inhibitors for trypsin-like serine proteases - Focus on Dry eye disease (DED) and Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- 20/09/2023 Camilla Scarpellini: Identification of novel ferroptosis and necroptosis inhibitors – Optimizing the therapeutic potential by improving the pharmacokinetic properties
- 2024 Maciej Rogacki: Phenotypic and target based approach to antitubercular drug discovery: investigation of thienopyrimidine and hydantoin scaffolds as new hits against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- 2024 Karuna Adhikari: Development of new TCO probes for pretargeted PET imaging