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Individual grant awarded to 2 young Dutch researchers from UMC Groningen. Jody De Jong and Marion Wijering were rewarded for their project to conduct basic research on 'myelin' r…

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Grant for research in geriatric medicine

Grant for research in geriatric medicine by the Funds Marie-Thérèse De Lava & Robert Schneider

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Ongoing

Research on Parkinson's disease

Support for clinical research to improve the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease

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Ongoing

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Research in neurodegenerative brain disorders

Support for innovative research towards better quality of life of older people with a neurodegenerative brain disease

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Ongoing

Springboard grant for young researchers in primary care and grant for research at the de Duve Institute

Fund Gezusters Loosveldt

Health

The Fund Gezusters Loosveldt support research on hematologic cancers in adults.

François, Gabrielle and Christian De Mesmaeker (Fund)

Health

Support to research in 2 domains: cancer and diabetes

One million euros for research into motor neuron disease ALS

16 02 2023

Health

Prof. Dr Ludo Van Den Bosch is awarded the Generet Prize for Rare Diseases (€ 1,000,000) for his research into motor neuron disease ALS.

AIDS has not yet been eradicated. The King Baudouin Foundation and BREACH are therefore providing 400,000 euros to support research into HIV and AIDS

30 11 2022

Health

The Fund for AIDS Research and BREACH, the Belgian Consortium for HIV/AIDS Research, are supporting a fundamental research project for an amount of 400,000 euros.

James Robins and others accept the first Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, worth 1 million USD

13 10 2022

Health

The inaugural $1 million Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics was presented to James Robins of Harvard University and four of his close collaborators.

Pancreatic cancer: gradually untangling a complex knot

Medical research

“In families where there are more cases of pancreatic cancer, we are also seeing an association with colon and breast cancer.”

Prof. Kathleen Claes

UGent, Lab for Cancer Predisposition and Precision Oncology

Story Forton Dr. Eva Van Braeckel — W. Nimmegeers

From asthma research to better treatment for cystic fibrosis complications?

Medical research

"When we see a patient whose cystic fibrosis is deteriorating, it is often hard to identify the cause. There is a need for better diagnosis of allergic reactions to fungi."

Dr Eva Van Braeckel

Pulmonologist (UGent and UZ Gent)

Story Maladies rares UZ Leuven — C. Dupont

New perspective on DNA variations leads to explanation for rare disease

Medical research

“We have shown that it is also worthwhile to look at the variants just before and just after genes.”

Prof. Eric Legius

Head of Centre for Human Genetics UZ Leuven

KBF in Belgium

KBF worldwide

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Grant for research in geriatric medicine

Research on Parkinson's disease

Research in neurodegenerative brain disorders

Oncology research for optimal patient value - A systems approach

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Fund Maurange

Fund Gezusters Loosveldt

François, Gabrielle and Christian De Mesmaeker (Fund)

One million euros for research into motor neuron disease ALS

AIDS has not yet been eradicated. The King Baudouin Foundation and BREACH are therefore providing 400,000 euros to support research into HIV and AIDS

James Robins and others accept the first Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, worth 1 million USD

Pancreatic cancer: gradually untangling a complex knot

Medical research

From asthma research to better treatment for cystic fibrosis complications?

Medical research

New perspective on DNA variations leads to explanation for rare disease

Medical research