Academic Showcase

Researchers working on a research project within the broad spectrum of life sciences, i.e. healthcare, agriculture and food or industrial applications, can present their research to all knowledge for growth attendees. Either with a poster or hands-on demo at the Academic Showcase lounge or via a pitch presentation in the Research to Business Session.

We welcome you at the Pedro De Gante hall to browse through these interesting studies.

For an overview of Poster abstracts, click here.

Below an overview of the demo's on display at the Academic Showcase, divided per participating University.

KU Leuven

1. The Symbody platform: ultrastable and self-assembling designer biologics

(KU Leuven PharmAbs)

2. (i)SIMPLE – only one finger press away from enabling decentralized healthcare (Francesco Dal Dosso & Dries Vloemans, MeBioS-Biosensors Group, KU Leuven)
3. The sFIS assay: a first-in-class, non-invasive, immunodynamic biomarker approach for precision immuno-oncology (Professor Abhishek D. Garg & Jenny Sprooten, Laboratory for Cell Stress & Immunity (CSI), KU Leuven)

Hasselt University

1. Dental pulp stem cells: paving the way towards new promising cell and gene therapies (Dra. Jolien Van den Bosch, Dra. Hanne Jeurissen, UHasselt)
2. Inflammatory Extracellular Vesicles as a biomarker source to reveal systemic chronic inflammation (Professor Luc Michiels, BioNanoTechnology (BNT) research group at Hasselt University)
3. Dosimetry audits in radiotherapy (Prof dr Brigitte Reniers, UHasselt)

University of Antwerp

1. Cutting-edge service platform for in vivo preclinical testing of drug candidates for treatment of chronic kidney disease and associated co-morbidities (Professor Anja Verhulst, Laboratory of Pathophysiology, University of Antwerp)
2. Orbits: Visualizing tumoroid drug response (Professor Christophe Deben, University of Antwerp)
3. Kinome-Omics integration platform bridging the Genotype and Phenotype gap (Claudina Perez Novo, Proteinscience, Proteomics and Epigenetic Signaling, University of Antwerp)

VUB

1. BruBotics VUB, improving quality of life through human robotics (Lennert Vierendeels, Simon Beckers)
2. B-LIVER, fostering patient and consumer safety, and human healthcare through innovative models and evolutionary medicine (Robim Rodrigues)
3. VUB REGE, Innovative models in Reproduction Genetics (Pieter Verdyck)

Ghent University

1. Novel brain shunt for hydrocephalus treatment (Hicham Saaid, BioMMeda, Ghent University)
2. Healthcare 4.0 - Biomaterials as the key to 3D bioprinting or biofabrication (Jasper Van Hoorick, Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Ghent University)
3. CRISParray - Accelerating drug discovery through comprehensive cellular and molecular phenotyping (Eric de Bony de Lavergne, OncoRNA Lab - Center Medical Genetics Gent - Ghent University – CRIG)