Research Foundation allocates 15 mandates to Leuven clinical researchers

A basic clinical mandate supports doctors and researchers aspiring a career in translational research. The mandate gives them the possibility to be exempt from clinical duties to do research and this for a period of 5 years. The mandates can be extended twice.

Prof. dr. Gert Van Assche, medical director UZ Leuven: “The nice rating for Leuven clinical researchers proves that translational research thrives here. This is one of our strengths as a university hospital. Translational research is the essential link between basic research in the lab and clinical research aimed at patient care.”

The Scientific Research Fund (FWO) is one of the most important Flemish financing institutions for basic and strategic research. 

New FWO clinical mandates June 2020

• Next generation-pathology in translational research: on the road to the implementation of digitisation and multiplexing in the clinical practice
  Prof. dr. Francesca Maria Bosisio

• Translational research into adenosine deaminase type 2-deficiency
  Prof. dr. Isabelle Meyts

• Importance of reliable diagnostics of myometrial lesions by way of ultrasound and liquid biopsy biomarkers in the clinical gynaecological practice
  Dr. Thierry Van den Bosch

• Predicting genetic markers in gynaecological cancers: how to improve targeted therapy 
  Prof. dr. Toon Van Gorp

• Diet as a treatment for patients with chronic gastroenteritis 
  Dr. João Pedro Guedelha Sabino

Renewed FWO clinical mandates June 2020

• Childhood trauma as a crucial development stressor: the linke between neurobiological changes, psychological mechanisms and exertion-related neutral plasticity  
  Prof. dr. Ruud van Winkel
   
• Improving counseling for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by studying new loci and the clinical utility of known loci and by data-driven research into 3D facial characteristics determined by major gene effects
  Prof. dr. Hilde Peeters
   
• The fight against neuromuscular dysfucntion acquired during an intensive care stay and its long-term impact 
  Prof. dr. Greet Hermans
   
• Breast cancer biology and ageing  
  Prof. dr. Hans Wildiers
   
• Implantable hearing solutions: translational insights of cochleair mechanics, imaging and bio-sensors
  Prof. dr. Nicolas Verhaert
   
• Towards improved clinical care and outcome for obese pregnant women and pregnancies after obesity surgery 
  Prof. dr. Roland Devlieger
   
• Stem cell therapy during normothermic machine perfusion preservation of livers to, on the one hand, improve the results of tranplantation and on the other the clinical application of this technology to safely transplant high-risk livers 
  Prof. dr. Diethard Monbaliu
   
• Structural and immunopathological organisation of the failing lung in CLAD and pulmonary cGvHD: both different or both the same?  
  Prof. dr. Robin Vos
   
• Identifying new risk factors for sudden death to improve the selection of patients for internal defibrillator implants.  
  Prof. dr. Rik Willems
   
• Unraveling the role of immuno-suppressive mechanisms and the microbiome in the development of colorectal polyps and cancer 
  Prof. dr. Xavier Sagaert