Medical problems Visiting a General Practitioner (GP) / Campus doctor Responsibility for students' health has been transferred to a network of general practitioners near the campuses. The aim is to ensure that the partner GPs see their students/patients as quickly as possible, even though they are n…

Advanced master of Specialist Medicine Study programme Medical Oncology Study programme Medical Oncology 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021 2019-2020 2024-2025 Attention: during the second year you will not have to take any courses. However, you will need to re-enroll in the programme…

Insurance and healthcare All students must have sufficient health insurance to cover their stay in Antwerp. Although the University of Antwerp does offer accident-liability insurance to all its students, health insurance is not included, so please make sure you are sufficiently insured. We cannot re…

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Medical Biochemistry Unravelling the structure-function relationship of proteins in human pathophysiology The Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry studies the structure-function relationship of proteins with a medical relevance in human pathologies. Its …

Medical Genetics search menu search content Medical Genetics (MEDGEN) About MEDGEN MEDGEN is an interfaculty research group which was formed in 2022 after the fusion of 3 research teams (HMG, COGNET and MGENOS) from the faculty of pharmacy, biomedical sciences and veterinary sciences (FBD) and one (…

Laboratory of Medical Microbiology search menu search content Laboratory of Medical Microbiology Welcome to the LMM The LMM has a world reputation in studying antibiotic use and resistance, as well as on the development of rapid diagnostic solutions by identifying and tapping the potential of newly …

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Contact Medical Biochemistry University of Antwerp Show email address Campus Drie Eiken - Building S, D.S.509 Universiteitsplein 1 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary cookies They are necessary for the proper functioning of the…

Laboratory of Medical Microbiology search menu search content Laboratory of Medical Microbiology - Biofilm Model Systems Biofilm model systems The LMM develops and undertakes studies investigating the mechanisms of biofilm formation for all forms of bacteria. We are currently defining patterns of ge…

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Enzymology Prof. Anne-Marie Lambeir is well recognized for her expertise in enzymology. She accepted invitations not only for teaching enzyme kinetics, but also to participate in multidisciplinary projects on protein engineering, enzyme design and drug…

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Theses Staff members of the laboratory are promoters of doctoral theses in Pharmaceutical Sciences. They also supervise bachelor theses and master theses in the Pharmaceutical Care (FZ) and Drug Development (GO) programs, in Biochemistry and Biotechnol…

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Crystallography Macromolecular X-ray crystallography For more information, please contact Prof. dr. ir. Yann Sterckx. Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary cookies They are necessary for the proper functioning of the website and can not be switched of…

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Education A description of the courses can be found on the individual webpages of the academic staff members. Ingrid De Meester Dirk Hendriks Yann Sterckx Glenn Van Den Bosch Steven Weekx Veerle Matheeussen Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary cookie…

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects FAPI-PLA: Accelerating the preclinical development of fibroblast-activation protein (FAP)-targeted theranostics through a highly interdisciplinary in vitro platform. 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2027 Abstract Fibroblast activation prote…

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Equipment The Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry disposes of instrumentation listed below. Biomolecular Interaction Platform Isothermal Titration Calorimeter (ITC, Peaq-ITC, Malvern) Grating Coupled Interferometry (GCI, Creoptix WAVEdelta) Microplate r…

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Members Academic staff De Meester Ingrid Sterckx Yann Prothiwa Michaela PhD students Boeykens Lien De Cleene Witse Corthaut Sam De Groot Anke De Loose Joni De Vocht Line Mertens Kathleen Smiejkowska Natalia Van de Velde Jana Van Meel Kim Van Rymenant Y…

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Research Research mission Research topics 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 …

Medical Genetics search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Elucidating the TGFß paradox in aortic aneurysmal disease: unveiling the role of endothelial cells and nitric oxide. 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Impaired TGFß signaling is a defining feature of thoracic aortic aneurysm and …

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content News October 9, 2024 Professor Yann Sterckx was interviewed by De Standaard following the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Read the full article here. August 30, 2024 Congratulations to Natalia Smiejkowska for successfully defending her PhD on…

Medical Genetics search menu search content Publications Cognitive deficits in human ApoE4 knock-in mice : a systematic review and meta-analysis Source Behavioural brain research - ISSN 0166-4328-471 (2024) p. 1-27 Author(s) Marieke J.G. van Heuvelen, Mathijs van der Lei, Pien M. Alferink, Peter Roe…

Medical Genetics search menu search content Members Spokesperson Bart Loeys Member Dogan Akdeniz Maaike Alaerts Dale Annear Reihaneh Asadi Bettina Blaumeiser Amira Bousbaa Lucia Buccioli Martina Cherubin Ana Regina de Abreu Pauline De Kinderen Katrien De Roeck Luna Deconinck Ivanna Fedoryshchenko Er…

Medical Genetics search menu search content Education Courses Skeletal Dysplasia Course July 2013. Université de Lausanne. Organizers: L. Bonafé, S. Unger, A. Superti-Furga. Co-lecturer: Geert Mortier. Skeletal Dysplasia Course July 2014. Université de Lausanne. Organizers: L. Bonafé, S. Unger, …

Laboratory of Medical Microbiology search menu search content 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 you to make use …

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Drug screening Researchers of the Medical Biochemistry group develop purification methods for the enzymes they study, from natural sources as well as recombinant organisms. They develop assays that can be used to assess activity in complex biological s…

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Key publications Biophysical analysis of the membrane-proximal Venus Flytrap domain of ESAG4 receptor-like adenylate cyclase from Trypanosoma brucei Source Molecular and biochemical parasitology - ISSN 0166-6851- (2024) p. Author(s) Desirée O. Alves, …

Medical Biochemistry search menu search content Research mission The Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry has the following mission statement: “unraveling the structure-function relationship of proteins with a relevance in human (patho)physiology, focusing on target finding, characterization and cli…