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Satanik won the ESB Student award 2023

Four students were selected as finalists for the ESB Student award 2023, and our colleague Satanik Mukherjee was among them. After a tight popular voting, Satanik, together with another finalist, was announced winner of this year’s edition. Congratulations, Satanik, well-deserved! See also the official Twitter post.
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Alessio won the Best Poster Award at the SBHD 2023 conference

Alessio Gamba participated at the 15th Annual International Conference on Systems Biology of Human Disease (SBHD), which took place in Berlin (Germany) on 19-21 June 2023. Alessio presented a poster about his recent updates on the work in ONTOX project, entitled “From Nephron Physiological Map to Kidney Disease Ontologies: a Systems Biology Approach for in[...]
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Mojtaba held his PhD defense

Mojtaba Barzegari Shankil brilliantly defended his PhD thesis in Leuven on 15 June 2023. The thesis is entitled “Mathematical and computational modeling of metallic biomaterials biodegradation”. Congratulations, Mojtaba! Or better said: congratulations, Dr. Barzegari!
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Laura won the Best flash talk award at the byteMAL conference 2023

Laura Lafuente-Gracia gave a flash talk at the byteMAL conference 2023, with which she won the Best flash talk award. The conference took place in Aachen, Germany on 23 May 2023. She presented her bone regeneration model applied to the investigation of large craniofacial defects. You can see the slides of the flash talk here,[...]
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Lies has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its Consolidator Grants, and our principal investigator Liesbet Geris is among this year’s recipients. Congratulations! The grant has been awarded to the INSTAnt CARMA project, which will continue our group’s research on the development of new cartilage regenerative medicine techniques for the treatment of osteoarthritis. The project will use digital[...]
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Tim received a Young Investigator Award at the 13th International BMP Conference

Tim Herpelinck received a Young Investigator Award at the 13th International BMP Conference. The conference was held from 8th – 12th October 2022, where he presented a case study of how the Skeletal Cell Atlas can be used to analyze BMP signaling throughout limb development in silico. A conference review has now been published in RAD CASA – Medical[...]
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Sophie has received an operating grant from the Foundation Leon Fredericq

Sophie Bekisz has received an operating grant from the Foundation Leon Fredericq. The aim of the Foundation Leon Fredericq, a university hospital foundation in Liège, is to support and strengthen medical and biomedical research in Liège in all fields of medicine, but also to support innovative projects carried out by the University Hospital of Liège for the[...]
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