Laura

Our group participated in the KU Leuven University trail 2022

Our group participated in the KU Leuven University trail 2022 that took place last Thursday 15 September  – and it was very fun! The university trail is a sport event by KU Leuven in which staff members gather together in teams to walk or run. This time, the most popular category within our team members was[...]
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ECMTB 2022: Sophie and Laura will present their research

Sophie Bekisz and Laura Lafuente-Gracia will present their research at the 12th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB, https://ecmtb2022.org/). The conference will take place in Heidelberg (Germany) from 19 to 23 September 2022. Both Sophie and Laura will present a poster at the conference. The corresponding titles are: Sophie: “An agent-based model to investigate the role of[...]
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VPH 2022: Several team members will present their research

Mojtaba Barzegari, Sophie Bekisz, Alessio Gamba, Luiz Ladeira, Laura Lafuente-Gracia, and Satanik Mukherjee 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 Porto (Portugal) from 6 to 9 September 2022. The titles of the[...]
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WCB 2022: Lies, Edoardo, Laura, Satanik and Fernando will present

Edoardo Borgiani, Laura Lafuente-Gracia, Satanik Mukherjee and Fernando Pérez-Boerema will present their research at the 9th World Congress of Biomechanics. Liesbet Geris is one of the plenary speakers of the conference. The conference will take place from 11 to 14 July in Taipei, Taiwan and also online (https://www.wcb2022.com/). Due to the COVID-19 measures, our team will[...]
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Our group was present at the MECH Research Day of KU Leuven

On Tuesday 31 May 2022, the first edition of the MECH Research Day of KU Leuven took place, in which researchers of the department of Mechanical engineering showed their research through posters and demos. And our group was present too, of course! We contributed with several participations: Lies gave one of the four lectures. Her talk[...]
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ESBiomech 2022: Edoardo, Laura and Satanik will present their research

Edoardo Borgiani, Laura Lafuente-Gracia and Satanik Mukherjee will present their work at the ESBiomech 2022. The conference will be held from 26 to 29 June in Porto, Portugal (https://esbiomech2022.org/). Edoardo Borgiani will present  “In silico immunofluorescence: a novel approach to calibrate mechanoregulatory models of early bone fracture healing” as oral presentation on Monday 27th at 14h[...]
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Laura joins the ESB Student committee

Our team member Laura has been selected to join the Student committee of the European Society of Biomechanics (https://esbiomech.org/student-section/student-committee/). Congratulations!
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Laura, Edoardo, Gabriele and Lies have published a review paper in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Laura Lafuente-Gracia, Edoardo Borgiani, Gabriele Nasello and Liesbet Geris have published a review paper in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. The paper is entitled “Towards in silico Models of the Inflammatory Response in Bone Fracture Healing”. You can read the full publication following this link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2021.703725/full
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TERMIS 2021: Several team members will present their research

Mahtab Asadian, Lisanne Groeneveldt, Ayse Kose, Laura Lafuente-Gracia, Bingbing Liang, Niki Loverdou, Sourav Mandal, Satanik Mukherjee, Gabriele Nasello and Ehsan Sadeghian Dehkord will present their research in the 6th World Congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS, https://termis.org/WC2021). The conference, hosted in Maastricht (The Netherlands), will be held online from 15 –[...]
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ESB 2021: Edoardo, Laura and Satanik will present their research

Edoardo Borgiani, Laura Lafuente-Gracia and Satanik Mukherjee will present their work in ESBiomech 2021. The conference will be held online from 11 to 14 July in Milan, Italy (esbiomech.org/conference/esb2021/). The titles of the presentations are: Edoardo Borgiani (oral presentation): “COMMBINI: COmputational Mechanobiological Model of Bone INjury Immunoresponse” Laura Lafuente-Gracia (oral presentation): “Wrap me up and let[...]
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