Projects and Grants

Personal mandates for PhD students and postdocs:

  • Pieter Ansoms (FWO-SB PhD fellowship, 2022-2026, co-promoter)
  • Claire Villette (FWO postdoctoral fellowship 2021-2024)
  • Sophie Bekisz (FRIA PhD fellowship, 2019-2022)
  • Lisanne Groeneveldt (FWO-aspirant PhD fellowship, 2019-2023)
  • Sourav Mandal (ULiège IPD-STEMA postdoctoral fellowship, 2019-2021)
  • Tim Herpelinck (FWO-SB PhD fellowship, 2019-2022)
  • Sebastien de Bournonville (FWO-SB PhD fellowship, 2017-2020)
  • Niki Loverdou (FRIA PhD fellowship, 2016-2019)
  • Johanna Bolander (FWO postdoc, 2015-2018, co-promoter)
  • Gabriella Nilsson-Hall (IWT PhD fellowship, 2014-2017, co-promoter)
  • Johan Kerkhofs (FWO PhD fellowship, 2011-2015)
  • Aurélie Carlier (FWO postdoc 2014-2015, & FWO PhD fellowship, 2010-2014, co-promoter)

 

Projects and grants:

  • Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) project (2023-2026): ‘mERCATOR: Engineering Regeneratieve CAllus-Tissue ORganoïden voor aangetaste lange botdefecten’ (co-PI)
  • Federal government (project call FOD BOSA “research into impact of AI on man and society” 2022-2023): Digital Twins for Personalised Healthcare (PI)
  • DIGITAL EUROPE (CSA, 2022-2024): ‘EDITH : An Ecosystem for Digital Twins in Healthcare (coordinator via VPHi). Website: http://www.edith-csa.eu
  • HEU-RIA (2023-2027): ‘REALM : Real-world-data Enabled Assessment for heaLth regulatory decision-Making’  (co-PI via VPHi). Website: https://www.realm-ai.eu/
  • HEU-twinning (2023-2025): ‘PREDICTOS: Strengthening excellence for advanced osteosarcoma’s predictive models’ (co-PI)
  • Win2Wal regional funding (2023-2026): ‘B2Bone: Development and multi-scale customization of 3D printed composite bone substitutes for optimized intra-oral bone regeneration.’ (co-PI)
  • H2020-RIA (2021-2024): ‘ONTOX: Ontology-driven and artificial intelligence-based repeated dose toxicity testing of chemicals for next generation risk assessment ‘ (co-PI). Website: https://ontox-project.eu/
  • H2020-RIA (2021-2024): ‘SimCardioTest: Simulation of Cardiac Devices & Drugs for in-silico Testing and Certification‘ (co-PI via VPHi). Website: https://www.simcardiotest.eu/
  • H2020-RIA (2021-2024): ‘In Silico World: In Silico World: Lowering barriers to ubiquitous adoption of In Silico Trials ‘ (co-PI via U.Liège and VPHi). Website: https://insilico.world/
  • H2020-RIA (2021-2024): ‘SimCor: In-Silico testing and validation of Cardiovascular IMplantable devices ‘ (co-PI, via VPHi). Website: https://www.simcor-h2020.eu/
  • H2020-MSCA-ITN-ETN-2020 (2020-2024): ‘Disc4All: Training network to advance integrated computational simulations in translational medicine, applied to intervertebral disc degeneration’ (co-PI). Website: https://disc4all.upf.edu/
  • Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) project (2020-2023): ‘MatheMorphosis: an integrative model of limb development’ (PI), €577.270, ID: . G0D3420N
  • EOS Excellence of Science in Belgium (2018-2021): ‘Join-t-against-Osteoarthritis – Preservation and repair of the joint: meeting the osteoarthritis challenge’ (Co-PI)
  • ERC Consolidator Grant (2018-2023): ‘INSITE – Development and use of an integrated in silico-in vitro mesofluidics system for tissue engineering’ (PI)
  • Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) project (2018-2021): ‘CONnECTTIFy – A new era of virtual histology: novel contrast agents for 3D multi-tissue imaging using contrast-enhanced computed tomography’ (PI)
  • Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) project (2018-2021): ‘FWO-INSITE – Development and use of an integrated in silico – in vitro mesofluidics system for tissue engineering’ (PI)
  • KU Leuven C2 (strategic basic research) (2017-2021): ‘ENIGMA – Developmental engineering: from mechanisms of action to manufacturing bone forming units’ (co-PI)
  • Interreg NL-VL project (2016-2020): PROPEROS: PRinting PERsonalized orthopaedic implantS (co-PI, WP leader). Website: https://prosperosinterreg.eu/en/
  • Marie Sklodowska Curie ETN training network (2017-2020): CARBON: Controlling Cartilage to Bone Transitions for Improved Treatment of Bone Defects and Osteoarthritis (co-PI, WP leader)
  • BIOWIN project (regional funding) (2016-2019): BIOPTOS: 3D printed biomaterials optimized for bucco-dental bone regeneration (co-PI)
  • FNRS FRFC project (2016-2020): Optimization of 3D bioprinting techniques for bone tissue engineering applications (PI)
  • KU Leuven C3 project (2015-2017): C3BONE: Clinical and industrial translation of cell-based advanded therapeutic medicinal products for the healing of large bone defects (co-PI, PI: Frank Luyten, KU Leuven)
  • Hercules project (2014-2016) : NanoCT and BioreactorCT for a better understanding of the dynamics of 3D tissue formation in regenerative medicine: from clustered cells towards organized multi-tissue system and whole organs (co-PI, PI: Frank Luyten, KU Leuven)
  • FNRS FRFC project (2013-2015) : PARAMETRomics – Parameters-models-experiments: a ‘ménage à trois’ (PI)
  • University of Liège Crédit Classique (2012): ‘Approche «génie orienté produit» appliquée à l’élaboration de matrices polymères poreuses destinées à l’ingénierie tissulaire’ (co-PI, PI : Dominique Toye)
  • FNRS FRFC project (2012-2015) : ‘MULTIPLICITY – a multi-scale/multi-physics framework for the study of cell-scaffold interactions for bone tissue engineering’ (PI)
  • KU Leuven GOA (geconcerteerde onderzoeksactie) (2013-2017): ‘M²BONE – Developmental engineering: from mechanisms of action to manufacturing bone forming units’ (co-PI, PI : Frank Luyten)
  • ERC Starting Grant (2011-2016): ‘Biomimetic process design for tissue regeneration: from bench to bedside via in silico modelling’ (PI
  • Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) project (2011-2014): ‘Engineering development towards a bone tissue intermediate’ (co-PI, PI: Frank Luyten, KU Leuven)
  • Nuffield Summer bursary grant 2011 ‘Analysis, extension and application of a mathematical model of neural stem cell migration in the brain’ (PI, together with Dr. Joanna Ashbourn, University of Oxford)
  • Special Research Fund of the University of Liège starting grant (2010-2012): ‘multi-scale modeling of skeletal tissue engineering processes’ (PI)
  • Nuffield Summer bursary grant 2010 ‘Mathematical modelling of neural stem cell migration in the brain.’ (PI, together with Dr. Joanna Ashbourn, University of Oxford). Website: http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/jack-miller .
  • Nuffield Summer bursary grant 2009 ‘Mathematical modeling of cell aggregates in bone tissue engineering using continuum methods’ (PI, together with Dr. Joanna Ashbourn, University of Oxford)
  • Nuffield Summer bursary grant 2008 ‘Numerical implementation of a bioregulatory model for bone regeneration during fracture healing: extension to realistic domain shapes’ (PI, together with Dr. Joanna Ashbourn, University of Oxford)
  • Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) post-doctoral fellowship (2007-2010): ‘Mathematical modeling of bone regeneration: research into possible causes and treatments of impaired healing cases’
  • KU Leuven Research Fund OT/02/50: ‘Quantification of the role of mechanical parameters on the bone response around loaded titanium implants’ (collaborator)