Department of Biomedical Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 2004 2009 2010 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2027

• 75 Active
• 221 Finished

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  Implementation and evaluation of new tools for Ebola Virus Disease response during eastern Democratic Republic of Congo outbreaks: from rapid diagnostic tests to genomic sequencing

  Mukadi, D., van Griensven, J., Ariën, K., Ariën, K. & Ahuka, S. M.

  1/07/22 → 27/03/23

  Project: PhD-project

• CHIKV nsP1: A common strategy for counteracting antiviral mechanisms in human and mosquito by CHIKV nsP1

  Ariën, K., Bartholomeeusen, K. & Janssens, N.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/01/22 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research Project

• LEISHCHROMAQ: Investigating the role of chromatin accessibility in the global transcription regulation in Leishmania quiescent cellusing multiomic single cell approaches

  Domagalska, M., Dujardin, J., Monsieurs, P. & Stas, M.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/12/21 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research Project

• SinCellK: A single-cell approach to study epigenetic regulation of Plasmodium knowlesi phenotypes: red blood cell invasion and gametocyte differentiation processes

  Rosanas-Urgell, A., Monsieurs, P., De Meulenaere, K. & Stas, M.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/12/21 → 30/11/22

  Project: Research Project

• False rifampicin resistance of Xpert MTB/RIF with paucibacillary samples in Damien Foundation Bangladesh projects

  Aung, K. J. M., de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  Damien Foundation Belgium

  1/01/21 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research Project

• Is the dominant RR clone in Rwanda (R3 clone) also found in Burundi ?

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  Damien Foundation Belgium

  1/01/21 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research Project

• Assess the sensitivity and added value of tongue swabs for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in Guinee and the Comoros

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  Damien Foundation Belgium

  1/01/21 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research Project

• COV2ADAPT: Assessing replicative fitness difference of SARS-CoV-2 circulating lineages

  Bartholomeeusen, K., Ariën, K. & Janssens, N.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  20/10/20 → 20/07/21

  Project: Research Project

• LEISH-ILIAD: Single cell transcriptomics of Leishmania donovani throughout its development in its natural sand fly vector Phlebotomus argentipes

  Domagalska, M., Dujardin, J. & Stas, M.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  20/10/20 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research Project

• Data integration to close the gap on Prediction of MTB Drug Resistance Mutations

  de Jong, B., Tzfadia, O. & Janssens, N.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  20/10/20 → 20/10/21

  Project: Research Project

• The impact of immunometabolomic dynamics in Plasmodium sexual conversion rates

  Rosanas-Urgell, A. & Stas, M.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  20/10/20 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research Project

• PICOV study : "Influence of prior infection with COVID-19 on occurence of influenza-like illness or acute respiratory infection"

  Ariën, K. & Janssens, N.

  Sciensano

  24/09/20 → 31/05/21

  Project: Research Project

• Determination of the ideal concentration of BVL-GSK098 required to boost ETH activity

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  15/08/20 → 31/12/21

  Project: Service

• ImmCoV: Are SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodies a correlate for protection?)

  Ariën, K. & Janssens, N.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  22/05/20 → 31/05/23

  Project: Research Project

• SARS-CoV-2 HCW study : SARS-CoV-2 prevalence, seroprevalence and seroconversion among healthcare workers in Belgium during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak

  Ariën, K. & Janssens, N.

  Sciensano

  22/04/20 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research Project

• Aneuploidy and mosaicism: a strategy for early adaptation to drug pressure in Leishmania

  Heringer Negreira, G., Dujardin, J., Domagalska, M. & Dujardin, J.

  17/04/20 → 27/06/23

  Project: PhD-project

• REMCoV: European Cooperation for anti-Viral Drug discovery and preparedness for current and emerging coronavirus outbreaks

  Ariën, K., Bartholomeeusen, K. & Janssens, N.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/04/20 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research Project

• The clinically silent Plasmodium vivax reservoir in the Amazon: a systematic review and pooled analysis of individual-level data from population-based surveys

  Rosanas-Urgell, A. & Stas, M.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/04/20 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research Project

• DiMoC: Diversity Components in Mosquito-Borne Diseases in Face of Climate Change

  Müller, R. & Borremans, G.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/03/20 → 3/09/23

  Project: Research Project

• Alternative techniques for monitoring of rifampicin resistant TB treatment response, to replace systematic monitoring by culture

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  Damien Foundation Belgium

  1/01/20 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research Project

• Document false rifampicin resistance of Xpert MTB/RIF in Bangladesh and of LPA or MGIT DST in Pakistan, for selected samples

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  Damien Foundation Belgium

  1/01/20 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research Project

• Unravelling phenotypic and molecular traits of quiescent populations of Leishmania under drug pressure

  Jara Portocarrero, M., Dujardin, J. & Stas, M.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/10/19 → 30/09/22

  Project: Mandate

• Effectiveness and tolerability of a short regimen for drug resistant tuberculosis treatment in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, Uncontrolled Clinical Study

  de Jong, B., Ardizzoni, E. & Janssens, N.

  MSF The Netherlands

  1/09/19 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research Project

• PEAU-EBOV-RDC: Prise en charge améliorée de Maladie à Virus Ebola en situation d'urgence en RDC

  Ariën, K. & Janssens, N.

  The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership

  1/09/19 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research Project

• Technical assistance and support by the Supranational Reference Laboratory at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (SRL) to the National Reference Laboratory (NRLs) of Georgia and Bangladesh and Proficiency testing for Drug-susceptibility testing (Round 25)

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  World Health Organisation

  15/05/19 → 31/05/20

  Project: Research Project

• Targeting malaria transmission: a transdisciplinary approach

  Portugaliza, H., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Cortés Closas, A. & Pell, C.

  11/04/19 → 16/12/20

  Project: PhD-project

• A study of the Plasmodium vivax reticulocyte invasion pathways and ligand candidates, with special attention to the promising PvTRAg and PvRBP multigenic families.

  De Meulenaere, K., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Laukens, K., Cuypers, B., Kattenberg, E. & Monsieurs, P.

  11/04/19 → 28/04/23

  Project: PhD-project

• GCAM EntoCap: Enhancing entomological capacity for combating vector born diseases in Nepal

  Müller, R., Subedi, R. K. & Borremans, G.

  26/03/19 → 1/03/21

  Project: Research Project

• Treatment of Rifampin-resistsant Tuberculosis with an All-Oral Regimen containing new drugs in Zhytomyr Ukraine

  de Jong, B., Ardizzoni, E. & Janssens, N.

  Médecins Sans Frontières

  1/03/19 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research Project

• RAPYD-TB: Towards increased access to rapid diagnostics for resistance to pyrazinamide

  Sengstake, S., de Jong, B., Rigouts, L. & Janssens, N.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research Project

• BCCM/ITM Mycobacteriënverzameling: Consolidatie en beheer van het BCCM Consortium als Belgisch "Biological Research Center" (BRC) - 2019

  Rigouts, L. & Janssens, N.

  Belgian Science Policy Office

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research Project

• Development of a non-RRDR SNP assay for countries to assess accuracy of Xpert in detecting their circulating rifampicin resistance

  de Jong, B., Rigouts, L. & Janssens, N.

  Damien Foundation Belgium

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research Project

• BURKINA - 2019 - FA4: To strengthen the research capacity in the resource limited setting of Burkina Faso.

  Jacobs, J., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Hardy, L., Peeters, M., Kattenberg, E. & Ratsarahery, L.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Development project

• GENTOOL: Novel genetic tools to study the molecular basis of drug resistance in Trypanosoma congolense

  Brasseur, A., Van Den Abbeele, J. & Stas, M.

  Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

  1/10/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research Project

• ILIAS: Invasive Lineages of AMR Salmonella, Trojan Horses in Africa

  Van Puyvelde, S., Deborggraeve, S., Jacobs, J., Dougan, G. & Stas, M.

  Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

  1/10/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research Project

• WGS-TB-DIAG: Whole Genome Sequencing to streamline TB diagnosis, improve TB surveillance and optimize individualized TB treatment a pragmatic trial

  Van Rie, A., Rigouts, L., Callens, S., Warren, R. M., Beutels, P. & Janssens, N.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research Project

• iElisa HAT II: Development of a high-throughput inhibition ELISA to replace immune trypanolysis for post-elimination monitoring of gambiense-HAT II

  Büscher, P., Van Reet, N. & Stas, M.

  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  1/10/18 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research Project

• TriDoRe: Novel high-dose tuberclosis retreatment regimens: How to overcome resistance without creating more?

  Decroo, T., Lynen, L., de Jong, B. & Ratsarahery, L.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/10/18 → 30/09/21

  Project: Mandate

• PEOPLE: Post exposure prophylaxis for leprosy in the Comoros and Madagascar

  de Jong, B., Hasker, E., Braet, S., Peeters, K., Geluk, A., Cambau, E., Gaudin, C., Andrianarivelo, M. R., Assoumani, Y. & Stas, M.

  The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership

  1/09/18 → 28/02/23

  Project: Research Project

• Systems biological analysis of niche adaptation in resistant and virulent Salmonella pathogens

  Cuypers, W., Jacobs, J., Laukens, K. & Van Puyvelde, S.

  26/04/18 → 23/06/23

  Project: PhD-project

• Molecular adaptation of the tsetse fly transmited African trypanosome to the intradermal micro-environment in the mammalian host

  Verbeelen, M., Van Den Abbeele, J. & Dujardin, J.

  26/04/18 → 3/11/20

  Project: PhD-project

• Assessing the antibody responses against arboviruses circulating in Peru – from basic immunology to new diagnostics

  Falconi Agapito, F., Ariën, K., Ariën, K., Dujardin, J. & Talledo, M.

  1/04/18 → 2/06/22

  Project: PhD-project

• Taenia spp. cysticercosis in pigs in Northern Vietnam

  Nguyen, T. T. M., Dorny, P., Dermauw, V., Dorny, P. & Nguyen , T. G. T.

  1/03/18 → 2/06/22

  Project: PhD-project

• Technical Assistance to the second nationwide Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Survey in Bangladesh from 2018 to 2019

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  World Health Organisation

  20/02/18 → 15/08/19

  Project: Service

• IMMCYTE: Immuno Cytometry: Phenotyping immune cellular components, in the context of HBV, HIV and AD, by new, advanced technologies

  Vanham, G., Chong, Y., Van Gulck, E., Ebneth, A., Moechars, D., Van Ginderachter, J. A., Van Broeckhoven, C., Wuyts, R. & Janssens, N.

  Agency for Innovation by Science & Technology

  18/01/18 → 17/08/20

  Project: Research Project

• CUBA - 2018 - FA4: To strengthen Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri (IPK, Cuba) and National Institute of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (INHEM, Cuba) towards accomplishment of their academic mission through capacity building and scientific co-operation.

  Boelaert, M., Vanlerberghe, V., Battaglioli, T. C. E., De Baetselier, I., de Jong, B., Torrea, G., Ariën, K., Heyndrickx, L. & Everaert, R.

  Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Development project

• CHIMERA: Identification of epitopes in the alphaviral envelope that confer infectivity for human and mosquito cells.

  Bartholomeeusen, K., Ariën, K. & Janssens, N.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/01/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research Project

• SOUTH AFRICA -2018 - FA4: Strengthening the capacity for research, teaching, policy advice, advocacy and networking of the partners in the field of human and animal health (South-Africa).

  Dorny, P., Van Damme, W., Marchal, B., Dermauw, V., Rigouts, L., Heyndrickx, L., Van Belle, S. & Debois, D.

  Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Development project

• BCCM/ITM Mycobacteriënverzameling: Consolidatie en beheer van het BCCM Consortium als Belgisch "Biological Research Center" (BRC) - 2018

  Rigouts, L. & Janssens, N.

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research Project

• SeTPAT: Development of an antigen test for the diagnosis of syphilis

  Kenyon, C., OSBAK, K., Van Ostade, X., Van Raemdonck, G., Crucitti, T., Büscher, P., Ratsarahery, L. & Dhaenens, M.

  King Baudouin Foundation

  1/01/18 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research Project