Grand Challenges 2022 & Meeting Bill Gates
On 24th of October 2022, our partner Johan Neyts and his associates welcomed Bill Gates at the KU Leuven Rega Institute during his visit in...
03 November, 2022
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Human Brain Organoids to Study Infectious Diseases
On October 18th 2022, TPI Amsterdam announced their website and released a video featuring our coordinator, Dasja Pajkrt....
26 October, 2022
Using Organoids to Study Enterovirus D68
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is an RNA virus that can cause outbreaks of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a polio-like disease. Before 2010, EV-D68 was a rare...
19 October, 2022
“Blood Brain Barriers Bari 2022” with GUTVIBRATIONS & OrganoVIR Labs
Between the 21st and 23rd of September 2022, four members of the GUTVIBRATIONS consortium, Eline Freeze, Renata Baptista Vieira de Sà, Dasja Pajkrt, and Salvatore...
04 October, 2022
GUTVIBRATIONS Was in Manchester for ESCV 2022
Between the 7th to 10th of September 2022, Joana Rocha-Pereira, Jana van Dycke, and Johan Neyts were in Manchester, the United Kingdom for the ESCV...
23 September, 2022
Snapshot in a bottle featuring Carlemi Calitz from GUTVIBRATIONS
One of our Postdoctoral Researchers, Carlemi Calitz was recently featured in a video published by Thermo Fisher. Within GUTVIBRATIONS, Carlemi is involved in establishing a complex in-vitro gut-brain...
08 July, 2022
GUTVIBRATIONS Progress Meeting in Örsundsbro, Sweden
On the 21st and 22nd of April 2022, members of the GUTVIBRATIONS consortium journeyed to Örsundsbro, Sweden. At Friiberghs Herrgård, to be exact, members of...
28 April, 2022
Reintroducing Dasja Pajkrt: Professor of Viral Pediatric Infectious Diseases
You may know her as Dasja Pajkrt, coordinator of European consortia OrganoVIR and GUTVIBRATIONS, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist at Emma Children’s Hospital, and Principal Investigator...
12 November, 2021
From A to Z(ebrafish) with Joana Rocha Pereira
There are plenty of fish in the sea (or in this case, freshwater), but what about in virology? Recently, we connected with Leuven-based researcher that...
10 November, 2021
TREATING INFLAMMATORY DISEASES IN PREMATURE INFANTS
Renee Schreurs, postdoctoral researcher in GUTVIBRATIONS received a grant of €30,000 euros to investigate the impact of breastmilk derived extracellular vesicles on intestinal barrier integrity...
11 October, 2021