Institute of Tropical Medicine

Projects

Projects per year 2004 2013 2015 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2028

• 203 Active
• 594 Finished

Projects per year

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  GeMini: From genome to the field: a global study of pathogen genetic and metabolic diversity and its relationship to clinical phenotypes

  Dujardin, J. & Decuypere, S.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/09/08 → 31/12/14

  Project: Research Project

  • Parasites 100%
  • African Trypanosomiasis 85%

• Transfection of Theileria parva and the role of genes encoding QP-rich proteins in host-parasite interactions

  Dorny, P., Geysen, D. & DOBBELAERE, D.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/09/08 → 31/12/11

  Project: Research Project

  • Theileria parva 100%
  • Host-Parasite Interactions 79%

• P. Vivax morbidity after radical cure treatment in the Peruvian Amazon region

  Soto Calle, V. E., D'Alessandro, U., Erhart, A., Speybroeck, N. & Llanos-Cuentas, A.

  1/09/08 → 12/01/17

  Project: PhD-project

• P. vivax cycle: The complete in vitro Plasmodium vivax cycle as a first step for understanding its biology and identifying new therapeutic targets.

  D'Alessandro, U., Van Den Abbeele, J., Erhart, A., Coosemans, M., Van Overmeir, C. & Van den Eede, P.

  1/09/08 → 31/12/13

  Project: Research Project

• Care for chronic diseases in low income countries. The health system perspective and self-management of diabetes

  van Olmen, J., Kegels, G. & Schellevis, F.

  15/08/08 → 29/11/16

  Project: PhD-project

  • Chronic Diseases 100%
  • chronic illness 81%
  • low income 70%
  • health 37%
  • management 36%

• Modelling of transmission dynamics of major zoonoses in Ecuador

  Ron Garrido, L. J., Berkvens, D., Saegerman, C. & Benitez , W.

  1/06/08 → 23/03/16

  Project: PhD-project

• The nutritional quality of street foods and their role in the diet of school-going adolescents in urban Benin

  Nago, H. E. S., Kolsteren, P. & Van Camp, J.

  1/05/08 → 12/12/11

  Project: PhD-project

• Latent Variable Models in Diagnostic Medicine with Applications to Visceral Leishmaniasis Research

  Menten, J., Boelaert, M., Lesaffre, E. & Verbeke, G.

  1/05/08 → 24/03/15

  Project: PhD-project

  • Latent Variable Models 100%
  • Medicine 83%
  • Diagnostics 76%
  • Diagnostic Tests 53%
  • Imperfect 31%

• NGIN: Next generation HIV-1 immunogens inducing broadly reactive neutralising antibodies

  Vanham, G. & Janssens, N.

  1/02/08 → 31/07/12

  Project: Research Project

  • HIV-1 100%
  • env Genes 58%
  • Organism Cloning 28%
  • AIDS Vaccines 27%
  • Protein Array Analysis 26%

• FAST-XDR: Development of a two-approach plate system for the fast and simultaneous detection of MDR and XDR M. tuberculosis

  Portaels, F., de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  1/02/08 → 31/01/12

  Project: Research Project

  • Pharmaceutical Preparations 100%
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis 78%
  • Drug Resistance 73%
  • Drug Compounding 46%
  • Isoniazid 45%

• Bluetongue 2006 - 2012

  Dorny, P., Deblauwe, I., De Deken, G. & Vantieghem, P.

  Federal Public Service - Health, Food Chain Safety & Environment

  1/01/08 → 31/12/12

  Project: Research Project

  • Ceratopogonidae 100%
  • Viruses 31%
  • Virus Replication 14%
  • species diversity 13%
  • suction 9%

• MALACTRES: Multi-drug resistance in malaria in combination therapy : assessment of specific markers and development of innovative, rapid and simple diagnostics

  HALIDOU, T., ENATO, E., BOUSEMA, J., VAN AMERONGEN Aart, D., SCHALLIG, H., SUTHERLAND, C., DANKS, C., D'Alessandro, U. & Desager, S.

  European Commission

  1/01/08 → 30/03/13

  Project: Research Project

  • Multiple Drug Resistance 100%
  • Treatment Failure 69%
  • Drug Resistance 65%
  • Alleles 52%
  • Endemic Diseases 46%

• MiP: Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium (Antimalarial combination treatments in African pregnant women with P. falciparum infection)

  D'Alessandro, U. & Desager, S.

  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  1/12/07 → 30/09/14

  Project: Research Project

• Helminths, nutrition and allergy : untangling the triangle. Epidemiological studies in Cuban children

  VAN DER WERFF, S., Polman, K., Twisk, J. W. R., Campos-Ponce, M. & Bonet Gorbea, M.

  1/09/07 → 12/05/16

  Project: PhD-project

  • Hypersensitivity 100%
  • Infections 43%
  • Atopic Dermatitis 21%
  • Immune System 16%
  • Mebendazole 15%

• TB-IRIS: Pathogenesis and identification of predictive factors of TB-IRIS in HIV patients under HAART

  Kestens, L., Daneau, G. & Janssens, N.

  European Commission

  1/07/07 → 30/06/11

  Project: Research Project

• MICROCAP: Preparing for Phase III vaginal micobicide trials in Rwanda and Kenya : preparedness studies, capacity building and strengthening of medical referral systems

  Buvé, A. & Van Peer, N.

  The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership

  10/04/07 → 9/04/11

  Project: Research Project

  • Capacity Building 100%
  • Kenya 87%
  • Community-Institutional Relations 54%
  • Incidence 54%
  • Data Management 50%

• FASTEST_TB: Development and clinical evaluation of fast tests for tuberculosis diagnosis

  Portaels, F. & Van Peer, N.

  European Commission

  1/03/07 → 31/08/10

  Project: Research Project

  • Urine 100%
  • Serum 64%

• Epidemiology of brucellosis in human, domestic ruminants and swine of Bangladesh

  Rahman, A., Berkvens, D., Saegerman, C. & Uddin Ahmed, M.

  1/03/07 → 2/03/15

  Project: PhD-project

• Evaluation d'une approche alternative, pour la prise en charge de la malnutrition du jeune enfant dans un district rural au Burkina Faso

  Ouedraogo Nikiema, L., Donnen, P. & Sondo, B.

  1/01/07 → 21/12/17

  Project: PhD-project

• HIV Control: Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication

  Vanham, G., VERHASSELT, B., MOUTSCHEN, M., BERNEMAN, Z., VANDAMME, A. & BERKHOUT, B.

  1/01/07 → 31/03/12

  Project: Research Project

  • Virus Replication 100%
  • Computational Biology 22%
  • Drug Resistance 21%
  • Small Interfering RNA 20%
  • Computer Simulation 10%

• TRYPA MODEL: Molecular dialogue between parasite and hosts : the trypanosome model

  Coosemans, M. & Desager, S.

  Belgian Science Policy Office

  1/01/07 → 29/02/12

  Project: Research Project

  • Trypanosoma brucei brucei 100%
  • Parasites 63%

• MYCOLACTONE: Detection of the system and the level of the mycolactone expression in Mycobacterium ulcerans.

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/01/07 → 31/12/12

  Project: Research Project

  • regulation 100%

• GHI's in Africa: Global Health initiatives in Africa

  Van Damme, W.

  European Commission

  1/01/07 → 31/12/12

  Project: Research Project

  • Global health policy 100%
  • health 68%
  • coherence 58%
  • human resources 58%
  • proliferation 56%

• EUROPRISE: European Vaccine and Microbicides Enterprise

  Jespers, V., Delvaux, T. & Everaert, R.

  European Commission

  1/01/07 → 30/06/12

  Project: Research Project

  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome 100%
  • Viruses 63%
  • HIV-1 62%
  • Critical Pathways 27%

• Follow-up and evaluation of institutionalization processes of participatory strategies in Aedes aegypti control.

  Perez Chacon, D., Van der Stuyft, P. & Van der Stuyft, P.

  1/01/07 → 10/05/11

  Project: PhD-project

  • implementation process 100%
  • empowerment 72%
  • collective decision 19%
  • Cuba 16%
  • participation 15%

• AUDOBEM-AFRO: Effectiveness of facility-based audits to improve the responsiveness of West African district hospitals to obstetric emergencies : a three-country cluster randomised controlled trial

  De Brouwere, V.

  European Commission

  21/12/06 → 31/12/11

  Project: Research Project

  • audit 100%
  • obstetrics 89%
  • district 54%
  • developing country 50%
  • hospital care 29%

• MODIRISK: Mosquito, vectors of disease: spatial biodiversity drivers of change, and risk

  Van Bortel, W. & Coosemans, M.

  15/12/06 → 31/01/11

  Project: Research Project

  • mosquito 100%
  • Aedes 65%
  • biodiversity 47%
  • monitoring data 31%
  • DNA 27%

• SCHISTOINIR: Novel mechanism in the control of infection and disease

  Polman, K. & Desager, S.

  European Commission

  1/11/06 → 31/10/10

  Project: Research Project

  • Parasites 100%
  • Down-Regulation 42%
  • Pathology 38%
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations 24%

• ARVMAC: Effects of antiretrovirals for HIV on African health systems, maternal and child health

  Van Damme, W.

  European Commission

  1/11/06 → 31/10/10

  Project: Research Project

  • Child health 100%
  • health 59%
  • Burkina Faso 49%
  • meso level 47%
  • Tanzania 39%

• TFCASS: Tsetse flies and the control of African sleeping sickness

  Van Den Abbeele, J.

  1/10/06 → 30/09/10

  Project: Research Project

  • Sickness 100%

• Brucellosis epidemiology in Ecuador

  Ron Roman, J. W., Berkvens, D., Saegerman, C. & Benitez , W.

  1/04/06 → 21/12/16

  Project: PhD-project

  • brucellosis 100%
  • bovine 67%
  • public health 54%
  • EDTA 31%
  • test 24%

• Ocular complications in HIV positive individuals in sub-Saharan Africa.

  Otiti-Sengeri, J., Colebunders, R. & Colebunders, B.

  1/01/06 → 8/05/18

  Project: PhD-project

• REACT: Strengthening fairness and accountability in priority setting for improving equity and access to quality health care at district level in Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia

  De Brouwere, V.

  European Commission

  1/01/06 → 31/12/11

  Project: Research Project

• Environmental changes in Africa and tsetse habitat fragmentation: epidemiological consequences and perspectives for control

  Mweempwa, C., Dorny, P., De Deken, R. & Penzhorn, B.

  1/01/06 → 22/04/15

  Project: PhD-project

• 4 ABC: Evaluation of 4 artemisinin-based combinations for treating uncomplicated malaria in African children

  D'Alessandro, U.

  The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership

  12/12/05 → 30/06/10

  Project: Research Project

• BURULICO: Buruli Ulcer: multidisciplinary research for improvement of control in Africa

  Portaels, F.

  1/12/05 → 31/03/09

  Project: Research Project

• DENCO: Sustainable dengue prevention and control

  Van der Stuyft, P.

  European Commission

  1/11/05 → 31/10/09

  Project: Research Project

  • Severe Dengue 100%
  • Case Management 80%
  • Latin America 63%
  • Juvenile Hormones 62%
  • evidence 62%

• TRYLEIDIAG: Simplified rapid molecular diagnosis and characterisation of Leishmaniasis and Human African Trypanosomiasis

  Büscher, P. & Desager, S.

  European Commission

  1/11/05 → 30/10/09

  Project: Research Project

• POVILL: Protecting the rural poor against the economic consequences of major illness: A challenge for Asian transitional economies.

  Van Damme, W.

  European Commission

  1/10/05 → 30/04/10

  Project: Research Project

  • illness 100%
  • Laos 76%
  • Cambodia 71%
  • China 56%
  • costs 52%

• Cardiovascular and metabolic syndrome risk assessment of Bolivian adolescents

  Baya Botti, A. M., Kolsteren, P. & Kolsteren, P.

  1/05/05 → 31/05/11

  Project: PhD-project

• Diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis based on invariable surface glycoproteins

  Rogé, S., Büscher, P. & Guisez, Y.

  1/10/04 → 10/12/15

  Project: PhD-project

• ICTTD: Integrated consortium on ticks and tick-borne diseases

  Geysen, D.

  European Commission

  1/09/04 → 1/09/08

  Project: Research Project

• Etude épidémiologique de la leishmaniose canine à 'Leishmania infantum' et son impact sur la leishmaniose viscérale humaine sur le littoral algérien

  Adel, A., Berkvens, D., Saegerman, C. & Soukehal, A.

  1/07/04 → 4/03/16

  Project: PhD-project

• EMPRO: European Microbicides Project

  Vanham, G. & Buvé, A.

  European Commission

  1/01/04 → 31/12/09

  Project: Research Project

  • Clinical Trials, Phase I 100%