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Ahmad and Lies have published in JOR Spine

Ahmad Alminnawi and Liesbet Geris, among other co-authors, have published a review paper in the JOR Spine. The paper is titled “Cartilaginous endplates: A comprehensive review on a neglected structure in intervertebral disc research”. This paper emphasizes the importance of the cartilaginous endplates in intervertebral disc degeneration and lower back pain and its potential as[...]
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Ehsan and Lies have published in Functional Biomaterials

Ehsan Sadeghian and Liesbet Geris, among other co-authors, have published an original research paper in the Journal of Functional Biomaterials. The paper is titled “An Empirical Model Linking Physico-Chemical Biomaterial Characteristics to Intra-Oral Bone Formation” and is fully accesible here. Congratulations on your paper, well done!
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Marc and Lies have published in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Marc Joiret and Liesbet Geris have published a research article in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, entitled “A simple geometrical model of the electrostatic environment around the catalytic center of the ribosome and its significance for the elongation cycle kinetics”. The complete article can be read here. The supplementary material includes a video showing how to calculate the ribosome[...]
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ESBiomech2023: Lies, Claire, Fernando, Satanik, Laura and Edoardo will present

Next week, the 28th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB 2023) will take place in Maastricht, The Netherlands from 9 to 12 July 2023. Liesbet Geris is one of the four congress chairs; therefore, our group is among the organizers this time. Some team members will present their research: Claire Villette: “Osteoinductive scaffold[...]
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Marc and Lies have published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Marc Joired and Liesbet Geris have published the paper ‘Cracking the genetic code with neural networks’ in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. It is a didactical/pedagogical paper targeting the biomedical community about the trade-off between ‘understandability/complexity’ of a deep learning algorithm and data efficiency (amount of data required to reach a given loss or a given accuracy).[...]
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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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Lies and Aurélie are among the top fifty women in STEM across Belgium

The InspiringFifty Belgium 2022 award recognizes the top fifty women excelling in tech careers across Belgium. Last June, our team submitted an application in Lies’ behalf for her birthday. We believed that Lies was more than deserving of the title “inspiringFifty”, as her impactful career is undoubtedly inspiring for us all and her international recognition is[...]
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Tim and Lies have published in Frontiers in Chemical Engineering

Tim Herpelinck and Liesbet Geris, together with some members of Prometheus (Isaak Decoene, Frank Luyten and Ioannis Papantoniou), have published an original research article in Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, entitled “Engineering bone-forming callus organoid implants in a xenogeneic-free differentiation medium”. This article is part of the Research Topic “Advances in Enabling Technologies for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative[...]
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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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Ahmad and Lies have published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Ahmad Alminnawi and Liesbet Geris, among other authors, have published a review paper in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. The paper is entitled “Immuno-Modulatory Effects of Intervertebral Disc Cells” and is part of the research topic “Immunological Imbalance: What is its Role in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration?”. You can read the full publication here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2022.924692/full
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