Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 2004 2026

• 29 Not started
• 132 Active
• 256 Finished

Projects per year

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  Projet ARES- CCD: Augmentation de la productivité des élevages caprins du Nord du Maroc par l’amélioration de la conduite de la nutrition, de la reproduction et de la santé

  Kirschvink, N.

  Project: Research

• Projet ARES-CCD: Amélioration des pratiques et partage de savoirs chez les éleveurs de petits ruminants au Maroc

  Kirschvink, N., Chentouf, M. & VAN DAM, D.

  Project: Research

  • small ruminants 100%
  • Morocco 96%
  • agriculture 63%
  • farmers 60%

• HISR: Health in smart rurality

  Lobet-Maris, C. & Grandjean, N.

  Project: Research

• The MAS project - Measure And See the activity of direct oral anticoagulant in the clinical context

  Douxfils, J. & MULLIER, F.

  Project: Research

• 2018H0138: Appel d'offre: ORGANISATION DE FORMATIONS EN MATIÈRE DE BIEN-ÊTRE ANIMAL À DESTINATION DES PROFESSIONNELS DU SECTEUR ET DU PUBLIC

  Diederich, C.

  Project: Research

  • training (animals) 100%
  • animal well-being 89%
  • animal welfare 64%
  • slaughterhouses 15%
  • livestock 12%

• Etude de la rémanence des concepts de mitose et méiose chez des élèves de dernière année de l'enseignement secondaire

  Vervoort, A., Depiereux, E. & Regnier, M.

  Project: PHD

• The AVRI project - evaluation of the risk of radiotherapy-induced atherosclerosis

  Douxfils, J.

  Project: Research

• Rôle d'un TonB-dependent receptor dans la tolérance au cuivre chez Caulobacter crescentus

  Matroule, J. & Cherry, P.

  Project: PHD

• PROJET PUNCH: Premiers pas dans la démarche clinique en bachelier de médecine : savoir faire et savoir être

  MARCHAND, E., Givron, H. & Desseilles, M.

  Project: Research

• Projet ARES-CCD: Renforcement de la stratégie de lutte contre l’échinococcose zoonotique au Maroc : aspects vétérinaires, économiques et sociologiques

  Kirschvink, N.

  Project: Research

• A novel method for the detection of biohazards

  CECCHET, F.

  Project: Research

  • dipalmitoylphosphatidylserine 100%
  • lipids 95%
  • Membrane Lipids 84%
  • Hazardous Substances 68%
  • Nanoparticles 48%
• Finished

  projet STEREO-DISSUP

  Linard, C.

  1/06/20 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • urban climate 100%
  • climate zone 94%
  • climate 59%
  • Africa 57%
  • health 52%

• COVID-19 SWABIMPROVMENT: Développements de dispositifs permettant d'effectuer des prélèvements dans un but diagnostic

  Lucas, S.

  1/04/20 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

• Solving the issue of diagnostic reagents shortage to monitor SARS-CoV-2 spreading in various contexts of coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic

  Muylkens, B.

  1/04/20 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 100%
  • Coronavirus 97%
  • Pandemics 82%
  • RNA 15%
  • Waste Water 14%

• Alternate receptors for IL-4/IL-13 in atopic dermatitis

  Poumay, Y.

  1/09/19 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• PINT-BILAT-MR.001.18: Convention F.R.S FNRS Projet bilatéral de mobilité | R.M001.18

  Van Doninck, K.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• Corbicula LAB: Lake Biwa (Japan): a Corbicula biodiversity and hybridization hotspot

  Van Doninck, K. & Hosoi-Tanabe, S.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Corbicula 100%
  • lakes 49%
  • biodiversity 49%
  • hybridization 47%
  • Japan 45%

• Characterization of mechanisms activating (p)ppGpp production upon carbon starvation in alpha-proteobacteria

  Marchand, E. & Hallez, R.

  14/01/19 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • alpha-Proteobacteria 100%
  • Ensifer meliloti 99%
  • starvation 74%
  • carbon 53%
  • cell cycle 36%

• Analyzing the role of multiple receptors of interleukins 4 and 13 in atopic dermatitis

  Progneaux, A. & Poumay, Y.

  14/01/19 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • Type II Interleukin-4 Receptors 100%
  • Interleukins 58%
  • Atopic Dermatitis 55%
  • Keratinocytes 28%
  • Epidermis 11%

• Mastering membrane proteins refolding by a surfactant-cosolvent assisted method

  Michaux, C.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Protein 100%
  • Detergent 75%
  • Disulfide 33%
  • Solvent 18%
  • Time 14%

• Study of the translational regulation of mitochondrial remodeling in a model of human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cell hepatogenic differentiation

  CARUSO, M., Renard, P. & Najimi, M.

  1/01/19 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells 100%
  • Cell Differentiation 90%
  • Stem Cells 82%
  • Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4E 41%
  • Polyribosomes 35%

• Study of the translation regulation occurring during stem cell hepatogenic differentiation, and potentially involved in mitochondrial biogenesis

  Renard, P.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Organelle Biogenesis 100%
  • Cell Differentiation 64%
  • Stem Cells 57%
  • Mitochondria 43%
  • Peptide Initiation Factors 33%

• RISE - Rotifer In SpacE: Bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga: a new eukaryotic extremophile model organism to study the impact of radiation and micro-gravity on biological processes

  Van Doninck, K. & Lucas, S.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Adineta vaga 100%
  • extremophiles 74%
  • space flight 64%
  • microgravity 64%
  • Rotifera 57%

• RotiChip: The RotiChip: a microfluidic platform for microinjection, single organism sorting, live imaging, and micromanipulation of the stress resistant bdelloid rotifers

  Van Doninck, K.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • microfluidic technology 100%
  • Rotifera 89%
  • sorting 81%
  • image analysis 67%
  • organisms 46%

• Is a trafficking defect between endolysosomes and lysosomes the underlying cause of spastic paraplegia 21?

  Boonen, M.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Paraplegia 100%
  • Lysosomes 87%
  • Hydrolases 50%
  • Endosomes 32%
  • beta-Fructofuranosidase 22%

• Regulation of the second messenger (p)ppGpp upon nutrient starvation in Caulobacter crescentus

  Hallez, R.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Caulobacter crescentus 100%
  • Second Messenger Systems 70%
  • Starvation 69%
  • Nitrogen 63%
  • Nutrients 54%

• Tumor macrophage rewiring by proton irradiation in order to boost the anti-PD-L1 immune checkpoint blocker effects

  LONGTON, E. & MICHIELS, C.

  1/01/19 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Protons 100%
  • Macrophages 68%
  • Neoplasms 31%
  • Tumor Microenvironment 22%
  • Phenotype 19%

• Hybrid gold nanoparticles coated with organic polymers and antibodies as a platform for cancer theranostics: cytotoxicity assessment and radiolabeling

  DAEMS, N., MICHIELS, C. & Lucas, S.

  1/01/19 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Gold Nanoparticle 100%
  • Nanoconjugate 70%
  • Dose 55%
  • Cell Death 25%
  • Cell Viability 23%

• COLREC at the human-livestock interface

  Muylkens, B. & Linard, C.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • One Health initiative 100%
  • colistin 83%
  • resistance mechanisms 63%
  • livestock 50%
  • Escherichia coli 39%

• Study of the role of Sirtuin 3 in diet-induced obesity of transgenic mice that overexpress the mitochondrial deacetylase and characterization of its role in white adipogenic differentiation

  STORDER, J., ARNOULD, T. & Renard, P.

  1/01/19 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Sirtuin 3 100%
  • adipogenesis 84%
  • obesity 65%
  • Cell Differentiation 51%
  • Metabolic 51%

• Characterization of the early stages of pulmonary Brucella melitensis infection in mice

  Demars, A., De Bolle, X. & Muraille, E.

  1/01/19 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Brucella melitensis 100%
  • Brucella 86%
  • lungs 56%
  • macrophages 42%
  • mice 41%

• Characterization of the molecular mechanisms controlling negative chemotaxis to copper in Caulobacter crescentus

  Louis, G. & Matroule, J.

  1/01/19 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Caulobacter crescentus 100%
  • Chemotaxis 68%
  • Copper 64%
  • Periplasm 21%
  • Cell Division 15%

• Viral infections in APOBEC3-induced cancers

  GILLET, N. & Van Doninck, K.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • Virus Diseases 100%
  • Neoplasms 43%

• Structural approach of M.tuberculosis phosphoserine phosphatase as drug target for the design of original inhibitors

  PIERSON, E. & Wouters, J.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • Drug Target 100%
  • Crystallography 93%
  • Serine 82%
  • phosphoserine phosphatase 80%
  • Clofazimine 76%

• Development of new compounds targeting coagulation factor XIIa using innovative microfluidic assays in the context of fragment-based drug discovery

  DAVOINE, C., POCHET, L. & Fillet, M.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Factor XIIa 100%
  • Microfluidics 89%
  • factor XIIa inhibitor 68%
  • Drug Discovery 64%
  • Thrombin 61%

• Design, synthesis and evaluation of FXIIa inhibitors: toward chiral peptidomimetic amidines and guanidines

  SIMON, F., LANNERS, S. & POCHET, L.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Blood Clotting Factor 100%
  • Peptidomimetic 89%
  • Amidine 88%
  • Guanidines 75%
  • Anticoagulant 44%

• Reprogramming tumour-associated macrophages with proton irradiation to boost the effects of immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer

  HUART, C. & MICHIELS, C.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • Protons 100%
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms 97%
  • Macrophages 92%
  • Immunotherapy 86%
  • Neoplasms 42%

• How cycling hypoxia initiates endothelial cell-macrophage cooperation to support tumor growth and metastasis

  DELPRAT, V. & MICHIELS, C.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Hypoxia 100%
  • Endothelial Cells 99%
  • Macrophages 99%
  • Neoplasm Metastasis 64%
  • Neoplasms 57%

• Financement d'un logisticien de recherche attaché à l'animalerie (KEYFOOD)-2

  Vandeweerd, J., Dewree, R. & Lombet, G.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• Study of the mechanisms leading to mitochondrial fragmentation in Brucella-infected cells and analysis of its functional consequences

  VERBEKE, J., ARNOULD, T. & De Bolle, X.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • Brucella 100%
  • Brucella melitensis biovar Abortus 25%
  • cells 21%
  • vacuoles 15%
  • phenotype 13%

• Novel exo-glycal synthetic methodologies applied to the preparation of biochemical probes

  Cornil, J. & VINCENT, S.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • Nucleotide-Sugar 100%
  • Glycolipid 80%
  • Biosynthesis 58%
  • Carbohydrate 57%
  • Molecule 32%

• Cryo- and photo-crystallography of thermo- and photochromism in the solidstate: Photo/Thermo-CoXal approach

  CARLETTA, A. & Wouters, J.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • photochromism 100%
  • crystallography 74%
  • chromophores 71%
  • hygroscopicity 54%
  • Thermochromism 53%

• BEST(Bdelloid Extreme Stress Tolerance): Bdelloid rotifers as a model organism to understand extreme stress tolerance

  Arora, R., Van Doninck, K. & Chainiaux Debacq, F.

  1/10/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Rotifera 100%
  • stress tolerance 82%
  • antioxidants 58%
  • Adineta vaga 58%
  • organisms 51%

• Convention de collaboration/co-financement avec UHasselt

  Linard, C. & Van Welde, L.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• Development of inhibitors of LDHB tetramerizatuion to block oxidative lactate metabolism and signaling in cancer

  Sonveaux, P., Frédérick, R., Wouters, J. & Piel, G.

  1/10/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • lactate dehydrogenase 1 100%
  • Lactate 68%
  • Metabolic 54%
  • Pharmacological Metabolism 52%
  • Block Like Crystal 45%

• Synthesis of an alginate-SiO2-TiO2 hybrid material for animal cell encapsulation for cell therapy

  NEUMANN, M., SU, B. L. & ARNOULD, T.

  1/10/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: PHD

  • alginates 100%
  • encapsulation 97%
  • therapeutics 73%
  • synthesis 51%
  • animals 39%

• DLCplus: Improved DLC coatings by more efficient process design

  Lucas, S.

  1/09/18 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

  • Process design 100%
  • Coatings 69%

• Kinetic Monte Carlo modelling of graphitic-type sheet synthesis

  Datta, A., Mukhopadhyay, T. K. & LEHERTE, L.

  16/06/18 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

  • Ammelide 100%
  • Oxalonitrile 59%
  • Urea 44%
  • Cyanuric Acid 40%
  • Pyrolysis 38%

• Study of the replication control and polarity in Brucella abortus

  VAN der HENST, M. & De Bolle, X.

  1/01/18 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • guanosine 3',5'-polyphosphate synthetases 100%
  • Brucella abortus 76%
  • Brucella melitensis biovar Abortus 68%
  • Hydrolases 64%
  • Cell Cycle 42%

• Identification of bacterial genes indispensable to the early phase of pulmonary infection by Brucella melitensis in mice

  POTEMBERG, G., De Bolle, X. & Muraille, E.

  1/01/18 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • Brucella melitensis 100%
  • lungs 56%
  • mice 41%
  • infection 37%
  • bacteria 29%