Luiz Archives - Biomechanics Research Unit

The Biomechanics Research Unit shortlisted for two Lush Prize 2026 categories

Our team has been shortlisted for the Lush Prize 2026 in two categories, recognizing its contribution to the development of innovative, non-animal approaches in science, including toxicology. The Lush Prize rewards initiatives in science and campaigning that aim to end or replace animal testing, with a particular focus on toxicology research. Young Researcher Prize Luiz has[...]

Bernard, Luiz and Lies have published in the Publications Office of the European Union

Bernard Staumont, Luiz Ladeira and Liesbet Geris, among other co-authors, have published a report in the repository Publications Office of the European Union. The title is “2023-2024 Report of the Society for the Advancement of AOPs Knowledgebase Interest Group”. The Society for the Advancement of AOPs Knowledgebase Interest Group (SKIG) is a vibrant assembly of more than[...]

Bernard, Luiz, Alessio and Lies have published in the journal ALTEX

Bernard Staumont, Luiz Ladeira, Alessio Gamba and Liesbet Geris, among other co-authors, have published a paper in the journal Alternatives to Animal Experimentation (ALTEX). The title of the paper is “Mapping physiology: A systems biology approach for the development of alternative methods in toxicology”. The full publication can be read here. The paper introduces Physiological[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Laura and Tim will present at the byteMAL conference 2023

Laura Lafuente-Gracia and Tim Herpelinck will present their work at the byteMAL conference 2023, which takes place in Aachen, Germany on 23 May 2023. Laura will present her poster “Modelling bone regeneration in craniofacial bone defects”, and has also been selected to give a flash talk. In his poster, Tim will present his work about the[...]

Luiz won the Best poster award at the 2nd ONTOX Annual Meeting

Luiz Ladeira won the Best poster award at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the ONTOX project: Back to the Biological Basis, which took place in Milan, Italy on 3-4 May 2023. He presented a poster entitled “Physiological Maps Curation Guidelines: Enhancing knowledge integration and sharing through FAIR aligned structures”. The poster was about the new guidelines for physiological maps[...]

Alessio Gamba, Luiz Ladeira and Bernard Staumont will present their research at the 16th International Congress of Toxicology (ICT, https://www.ict2022.com/). The congress will take place in Maastricht (The Netherlands) from 18 to 21 September, 2022. The titles of their presentations are: Alessio Gamba (poster): “New approaches for evaluating kidney toxicity using physiological maps” Luiz Ladeira (poster): “Physiology-based[...]

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[...]

Luiz Ladeira has participated in the Summer School in Bioinformatics promoted by the EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Connecting Science between 13-17 June in Hinxton, United Kingdom. There, he presented part of his work in the ONTOX project in a poster session. The title of his poster was “From human physiology to[...]

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