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We welcome Valentina Zorzini, the new Biophysics Platform expert at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research! We caught up with Valentina during these busy times to get to know her.

Meet Valentina, our new Biophysics Expert

We welcome Valentina Zorzini, the new Biophysics Platform expert at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research! We caught up with...

Two labs from the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research teamed up with TAJO – an organization combatting early school leaving and allowing young people to enter society autonomously and prepared. The two labs inspired the young TAJO people to get interested in neuroscience. We touched base with the researcher volunteers and TAJO educators to find out more about the initiative, its impact, and how to get involved.

Empowering Futures: TAJO and scientists join forces for workshop initiatives

Two labs from the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research teamed up with TAJO – an organization combatting early school leaving and...

This article originally appeared in Dutch in EOS Magazine. Read more at eoswetenschap.eu.

Miniscule cleaners

In early 2024, the LoForLife Festival granted a €135.688 cheque to the Laboratory of Neurobiology at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, to continue funding research into Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). We catch up with the lab to find out more about their research and their patient advocacy efforts.

High hopes for ALS Research with LoForLife Festival

In early 2024, the LoForLife Festival granted a €135.688 cheque to the Laboratory of Neurobiology at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease...

This blog originally appeared in Dutch in EOS Wetenschap.

How sick ‘nurses’ in our central nervous system play a role in ALS pathology

A conversation with science communicator Bethan Burnside and artist Júlia Mota Albuquerque

At the intersection of diversity, art, and science 

At the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, a collaboration by the Inclusion & Diversity Committee (IDC) brought forth a week-long celebration of diversity and a beautiful mural that stands as a testament to inclusivity. We sat down with Bethan Burnside, a passionate science communicator and member of the IDC, and Júlia Mota Albuquerque, the Brazilian freelance artist behind the mural, to delve into the inspirations, challenges, and impact of their joint endeavor.

A closer look at VIB’s EU Twinning projects: Twin4Promis and PhasAGE

Science without borders

For over two decades, EU Twinning projects have fostered scientific collaboration between EU Member States. These partnerships between universities enable the exchange of knowledge, expertise, and best practices. The life sciences, after all, thrive on international collaboration.

For Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) Awareness Month in October we interviewed Alessio Silva, a third-year PhD student studying the disease. Alessio is based at the Ludo Van Den Bosch Laboratory of Neurobiology at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research.

Progress Toward a Better Understanding of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Hi Alessio! Tell me more about how you ended up doing research in Leuven.

Bringing together Flemish expertise to accelerate the development of precision medicine for Alzheimer’s disease. 

The PRISMA consortium

Alzheimer’s disease is the world’s leading cause of dementia as it accounts for up to 80% of dementia cases. Alzheimer’s disease is the result of a complex interplay of both genetic and environmental factors, but it remains poorly understood to this day. The PRISMA consortium has the ambition to create new insights about the disease by answering the following questions:

An interview with Prof. Thomas Voets for Pain Awareness Month

Turning up the heat on pain research

Most of us are familiar with the painful, eye-watering sensation that comes with taking a bite out of a red hot chili pepper. But what puts the kick in these chilies?

New lab will study the development of emotional circuit neurons

Esther Klingler joins CBD as a new PI

We welcome Esther Klingler as a new group leader at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research and professor at the Department of Neurosciences at KU Leuven. Esther will also be a member of the Leuven Brain Institute. Esther will move from Switzerland to Leuven to start her lab, which will study the developmental trajectories of emotional circuit neurons. We caught up with Esther during these busy times to get to know her.

Ludo Van Den Bosch (left), Philip Van Damme (center), and Sandrine Da Cruz (right), ALS researchers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease research

LEUCALS: Meet the Labs working together to fight ALS

Ludo Van Den Bosch (left), Philip Van Damme (center), and Sandrine Da Cruz (right), ALS researchers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain &...

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