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Radical new technology to diagnose and monitor can help millions of diabetics

Friday 17/12/2021

More than 500 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes. Today the monitoring process is expensive and time consuming and not all patients can be reached.

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VUB's expertise in computer-generated holography

Thursday 16/12/2021

The department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) of the VUB and imec built-up a reputation in the domain of computer-generated holography. This technology is key to providing high-end media content for holographic display and printing.

Confo Therapeutics

Confo Therapeutics enters clinical stage with drug for neuropathic pain

Thursday 25/11/2021

Confo Therapeutics is a rising star in Belgium, featured on several local and international lists of up-and-coming biotechs. The company, launched in 2015 as a VUB/VIB spin-off is now taking the big step from the preclinical to the clinical stage with a GPCR drug for neuropathic pain.

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Smart Village Lab helps accelerate energy transition in Flanders and Europe

Monday 22/11/2021

The Smart Village Lab is the first physical realisation of the Green Energy Park, which was founded by the VUB and the UZ Brussel and will investigate how living in the future can become smart, sustainable and energy-efficient.Via an innovative, safe and lifelike living lab, Green Energy Park makes it possible to provide scientifically substantiated answers to questions of how Flanders can make th…

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VUB and EsoBiotec ready to transform cell therapy cancer treatments

Monday 15/11/2021

EsoBiotec, a recently founded biotech company, announces a EUR 6 million pre-series A round comprised of non-dilutive funding from the Walloon Government combined with seed investments from venture capitalist Thuja Capital and regional funding agencies SRIW Life Sciences and Sambrinvest.

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VUB Green Energy Park and Photonics in De Standaard Innovation Special

Monday 15/11/2021

Read the articles about the large-scale living lab Green Energy Park and the one-stop-shop for photonics in De Standaard. We teamed up with Maarten Messagie and Thierry Coosemans of the VUB research group Evergi and Nathalie Debaes of B-PHOT. Sytze Nijman of ERIKS sets the example of how researchers can help industry to innovate. Link to the article about the Green Energy Park.

PharmaFluidics

PharmaFluidics acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific

Monday 08/11/2021

PharmaFluidics is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science. This acquisition brings about new opportunities to create greater value and strengthens its ability to fulfill Thermo Fisher’s mission, which is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

SOPHIA

SOPHIA: deploying robots for improved ergonomy

Monday 08/11/2021

VUB research by research group Human Physiology and Sports Physiotherapy (MFYS) shows that more than half of European workers have long-term muscle and bone complaints. Innovative robots, cobots and exoskeletons that can relieve that work and make it healthier are therefore a major economic and social challenge.

ERIS

ERIS survey for researchers

Friday 29/10/2021

Within TechTransfer, the ERIS team is responsible for assisting VUB's research community in their quest for European funding for applied research.

Collibra

New capital round values Collibra at $5 billion

Monday 04/10/2021

VUB spin-off Collibra has raised $250M in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital. This makes Collibra the most valuable Belgian tech company. Collibra is an enterprising software company and a spin-off from the Laboratory for Semantic Technology and Applications Research (STARLab) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

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COMBAT-project fights animal parasitic disease

Friday 01/10/2021

CIRAD, as coordinator of a consortium of 21 partners of which the VUB, has launched a new project to combat animal trypanosomosis, a parasitic disease transmitted by biting flies, including the infamous tsetse. VUB researcher Stefan Magez of the Department of Bio-engineering Sciences Cellular and Molecular Immunology coordinates this project for the VUB.

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Friday 24/09/2021

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