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VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research
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Neuroscience center in Belgium 🔬🧠
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Apply for our International PhD Call! Discover the 11 new projects for this edition and apply until the 20th of November.
🔗More info: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026
October 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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🌟 We warmly welcomed this scientific delegation from the KOREA-EU Research Centre! It was a fantastic opportunity to forge connections between biotechnology researchers based in South Korea and Belgium.

Find out more 👉 lnkd.in/ekmNA27S
July 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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A new review from our center, published by Céline Vrancx and Wim Annaert, sheds more light into how APP-CTF toxicity could be an overlooked factor in the pursuit of preventive therapies for #Alzheimer's disease 🧠
Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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🌟 Congratulations to the laureates of the 2025 Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation for Neuroscience scientific awards, which include two researchers from our Center!

Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...
June 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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New prize at our center!
Our Liu Lab received the Outstanding Early Investigator Award, by the Sleep Research Society.
This distinction was awarded to Joana Dopp, former PhD student at our center, following their publication on Nature Neuroscience. Congratulations!
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June 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🌅 We warmly invite you to New Horizons in Neuroscience, a conference to explore the latest in neurodegeneration technologies, models, and treatments!

🗓️ 9-10 October, 2025
📍 Leuven, Belgium

Find out more 👉 www.vibconferences.be/events/new-h...
June 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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✨ Congratulations are in order for our FWO Postdoctoral Fellows — Artemis Koumoundourou, Gemma Martinez Rivas, and Ramon Duran-Romaña!

🧠 Through FWO's support, these scientists will continue to study the fundamental mechanisms driving brain development and functioning in health and disease.
May 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🤸‍♂️ We once again teamed up with TAJO vzw — an organization combatting early school leaving, and allowing youth from vulnerable home situations to enter society autonomously and prepared — to inspire young people to get interested in neuroscience!

Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...
May 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🐦 Early bird registrations for the TRP conference #TRP2025 — organized by the Thomas Voets Laboratory of Ion Channel Research — are now open!

📅 Save the Date: 17-19 September 2025
📍 Location: Leuven, Belgium
👉 Find out more here: lnkd.in/dwRpv_sH
May 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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📣 New research from the De Wit lab identified a 'molecular break' that regulates synaptic maturation and function. These new findings show how two different proteins — GPR158 and PLCXD2 — interact to form the spine apparatus in developing synapses.

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May 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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🤸 This year's Science Day was as energizing, inspiring, and fun as ever! We teamed up with @nerflabs.bsky.social — another @viblifesciences.bsky.social neuroscience research center, who became our neighbors on the Gasthuisberg campus this year — and enjoyed arguably the best Science Day yet.
May 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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🚀 #WeAreHiring! The Verstreken and Goncalves labs are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to investigate computational methods for neurodegeneration research ⤵️

Apply now 👉 lnkd.in/e4Huym6t

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May 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🌟 We welcome João Cardoso, who joined Bethan Burnside in the science communication team at the VIB-KU Leuven Cenrter for Brain & Disease Research this month!

Find out more about communication, outreach and engagement initiatives at our center and get in touch 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/engagement
May 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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🌟 New research from the Lucia Chavez Gutierrez lab unravels the genetic contributions to familial Alzheimer’s disease development and reveals how specific mutations act as a clock to predict the disease age of onset ⏰

Find out more 👉 lnkd.in/eAd4rwcp
Read the paper 👉 lnkd.in/ePDE2hVQ
May 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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📣 New review from the Ludo Van Den Bosch lab on lipid metabolism alterations in peripheral neuropathies published in Neuron!

Read the review 👉 lnkd.in/e2MHz8xN
Find out more about Alessio’s research on lipid metabolism alterations and ferroptosis in CMT1A 👉 lnkd.in/eUXyTrC5
May 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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🌟 A very special #FluorescentFriday this week featuring the winners of the annual VIB Bioimaging Core competition! 🤩

🔬 #neuroscience #microscopy #brain #bioimaging
April 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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🚀 New study reveals how four different anti-amyloid drugs interact with amyloid beta protein. They found that lecanemab performed best in binding to small oligomeric forms of the amyloid protein, suggesting a working model for treating people in the earlier stages of Alzheimer’s (1/4)
April 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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🌟 We celebrate Annerieke Sierksma who was awarded the Miet Smet Prize for her achievements in Alzheimer’s disease research. This award not only honors her contributions to understanding neurodegeneration but also serves as a tribute to Miet Smet, a trailblazer for women's rights 👩‍🔬
April 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Support Researchers Running for Alzheimer's! For the second time this year, we're teaming up with Stichting Alzheimer Onderzoek (SAO) to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer's research through a sponsored run 💜 (1/4)
April 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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📣 Scientists led by Sandrine Da Cruz have successfully seeded the accumulation of TDP-43—a hallmark of ALS and frontotemporal dementia—using lab-engineered protein fragments 🧠🔬 Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...
March 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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✨ Congratulations to the researchers who received a grant from Stichting Alzheimer Onderzoek (SAO) to fund projects with a focus on Alzheimer's disease.

Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...
March 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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⚡ The Leica LMD7 laser microdissection system is one of the latest instruments to arrive at VIB. Rodrigo Gallardo, Project Leader of the BE.Amycon #GrandChallenges project, explains how the device will help tackle the diagnostic challenges of #amyloidosis (1/5)
March 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Chelsea Hayen, a PhD student in the lab of @estherkli.bsky.social, studies how early-life stress shapes the emotional circuits of the brain 🤯🧠 (1/5)
March 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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🚀 Congratulations to our group leaders who received senior research project grants from the Research Foundation Flanders - FWO!

• Sandrine Da Cruz
• Joris de Wit
• Pierre Vanderhaeghen
• Esther Klingler
December 16, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Scientists in the De Strooper Lab show that the role of microglia in Alzheimer's varies depending on the stage of the disease, in a new study published in Nature Communications.

Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/news/microglia-the-double-edged-sword-in-alzheimers-progression
December 13, 2024 at 11:27 AM