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Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological disorders, affecting more than 65 million people worldwide. I’m Dr. Daniele Bertoglio and I recently obtained my second PhD at UAntwerp under supervision of Prof. Annemie Van Der Linden, head of the Bio-Imaging Lab. During my PhD I used various imaging techniques to gain a better understanding of epilepsy, a neurological disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures.
I’m An-Marie Schyvens and I recently graduated from UAntwerp with a Master of Biomedical Sciences. I had the wonderful opportunity to do an Erasmus exchange in a lab at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. I arrived in Paris in November 2020, right in the middle of a lockdown! At Institut Pasteur, I worked on finding new treatments for deafness.
New data from a collaboration between University of Antwerp, the University of Applied Science Kaiserslautern, Saarland University, Heidelberg University, the Brain Mind Institute of EPF Lausanne and the Roche Innovation Centre Basel, show that in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease there are distinct functional and molecular changes in the gut long before motoric disease onset.
I’m Deborah Walter and I come from Südtirol, Italy. After completing a double Bachelor degree in Biochemistry in Austria and the Czech Republic, I decided to come to UAntwerp to do the Master in Biomedical science, with a focus on Neuroscience. I had just been at UAntwerp for one semester before everything was locked down due to COVID-19.
Hi, my name is Nathalie Verzele and I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland in Australia. My PhD topic is “The neuromodulation of inflammation in pulmonary infections” in the virology lab of the “Flu Fighter”, Dr. Kirsty Short in collaboration with Dr. Alice McGovern. How did I get here, you ask? Let me tell you, it was a long road with many ups and downs.
I’m Eva Wachtelaer. Since primary school, I knew that I wanted to learn all about the human body. However, choosing between studying Biomedical Sciences or Medical School after secondary school wasn’t an easy choice for me. I’ll tell you about my journey from studying Biomedical Sciences to starting Medical School.
Despite decades of research and recent advances based on genetics and brain imaging, the exact mechanisms underlying Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a viable and effective treatment are still undiscovered. Dr. Annelies Verlaet, a researcher in the NatuRA group is investigating the use of plant extracts for the treatment of ADHD.