BOOST programme aims to help care providers listen “The goal is to improve communication between young cancer patients (between 10 and 18 years old), their parents and the medical staff,...
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The teams of VUB professors Bart Neyns, Sandra Tuyaerts and Karine Breckpot will join research groups from UCL, Bordet Institute and ULB in their search for factors that explain why...
Two research groups from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel have established a collaboration in which they predict the response to the standard treatment for rectal cancer based on medical images (e.g....
Researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, led by Prof Dr Eline Menu, have investigated how changes in metabolism contribute to cancer resistance and relapse. They identified the amino acid proline...
In-patient cell engineering to upgrade immune cells’ capacity to identify and destroy cancer cells is the challenge taken on by the Walloon startup Esobiotec, founded by Jean-Pierre Latere, and two...
The public PhD defence of Elyne BACKX entitled “The Neoplastic Potential of Pancreatic Cell Populations” will take place on Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 5 p.m. in Auditorium Piet Brouwer...
The public PhD defence of Rose MIRANDA entitled “Palliative care for older people with dementia in nursing homes and at home: multi-country descriptive and interventional research” will take place on...
Healthy pancreas contains cells similar to most aggressive tumour cells, study finds A team of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the UZ Brussel and elsewhere in Belgium and abroad,...
The public PhD defence of Nicholas JENNINGS entitled “Palliative and End-of-life Care in a small English-speaking Caribbean country, the case of Trinidad and Tobago” will take place via online meeting...
The public PhD defence of Eva DE SMEDT entitled “Epigenetic reprogramming of malignant plasma cells: the therapeutic potential of RASSF proteins and G9a/GLP targeting in Multiple Myeloma.” will take place...