Conferences

Claire gave a keynote talk at the InMAT 2025 conference

Claire Villette gave a keynote talk at the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Materials (InMAT 2025), which took place on March 31st- April 2nd 2025 in Rostock, Germany. The title of her presentation was ‘Multi-physics modelling for tissue engineered skeletal disorder replicas’.
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Ahmad presented at the 2025 MCAA Annual Conference

Ahmad Alminnawi has participated in the 2025 Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference and General Assembly, which took place in Krakow, Poland on 21-22 March 2025. He presented his work in a talk entitled “CT-Based Calculations of Perfusion-Induced Wall Shear Stresses in Osteochondral Explants of Intervertebral Discs”.
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Our group organizes the byteMAL 2025

This year, our group is the local organizer of the byteMAL, a bioinformatics and systems biomedicine conference organized by and for early-career researchers and students. For the first time, the byteMAL conference will take place in Leuven: Monday, April 14th 2025. The local organizing committee members are: Lies Geris Luiz Ladeira Bernard Staumont Loïc Comeliau Laura[...]
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BSTE 2024: Several team members presented their research

The 2024 edition of the Belgian Symposium of Tissue Engineering (BSTE) took place in Leuven. Several team members presented their research. We had some oral presentations in several sessions: Biomechanics and in silico modeling: Laura Lafuente-Gracia and Loïc Comeliau Cell Biology & Molecular Pathways: Ehsan Sadeghian Biofabrication & Bioprinting: Ayse Kose Clinical translation: Gabriele Nasello And also some[...]
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VPH 2024: Several team members will present their research

Luiz Ladeira, Laura Lafuente-Gracia, Majid Nazemi, Sophie Nguyen and Bernard Staumont will present their research at the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Conference (https://vph-conference.org/). As executive director of the VPH Institute, Liesbet Geris will also attend the conference. The conference will take place in Stuttgart, Germany from 4 to 6 September 2024. The titles of the presentations are: Luiz Ladeira[...]
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Ahmad participated in the 2024 ISSLS Annual Meeting

Ahmad Alminnawi has participated in the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) Annual meeting in 2024, which took place in Milan, Italy from 27th to 31st May, 2024. Ahmad presented a poster about his research, entitled “Image-based wall shear stresses calculations in cartilage endplate explants and scaffolds in perfusion culture”.
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Sophie presented at the Lymphatics GRS and GRC

Sophie Bekisz attended both the Lymphatics Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Conference (GRC), which took place at Ventura (California, US) from 2nd to 8th of March 2024. She presented her poster at both events, which was entitled “Investigation of lymphatic endothelial cell sprouting behavior in pathological conditions through a combined in vitro – in silico[...]
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Liesbeth presented her work at the Bones and Teeth 2024

Liesbeth presented her work at the Bones and Teeth 2024 GRS and GRC (Gordon Research Seminar/Conference), held from 28 January to 2 February in Galveston (Texas, USA). The topic of GRS was “Revolutionizing skeletal biology: new horizons and technological advances”. The goal of GRC was to bring together investigators and trainees. A broad range of[...]
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Liesbeth presented her work at the BSRT Symposium 2023

Liesbeth Ory presented her work at the yearly Berlin School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT) Symposium, which took place on 8 December 2023 in Berlin, Germany. This year’s topic was “The regenerative games uniting the world of tissue regeneration”. Liesbeth gave a young scientist talk about the recent updates of her work on characterizing the immune and biomechanical[...]
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Ahmad participated in the BSTE 2023

Ahmad Alminnawi has participated in the 10th Belgian Symposium of Tissue Engineering (BSTE), which took place on 6-7 December 2023 at the University of Liège in Liège, Belgium. He gave an oral presentation entitled “An In Silico Tool To Simulate Fluid Flow And Shear Stresses On CEP Cells In Tissues And Scaffolds”.
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