VUB meets Vietnamese research community Monday 30/09/2019 On September 11 the Hanoi University of Science & Technology received a visit of a VUB delegation, to raise knowledge and technology transfer awareness in the Vietnamese research community. This networking event is in the framework of VETEC project (Vietnamese - European Knowledge and Technology Transfer Consortium) - under the Erasmus + Key Action 2 program funded by the European Union. New science & technology center in the pipeline Thursday 19/09/2019 Vicerector Hugo Thienpont will give the old school building in Oetingen a new meaning by establishing a STEAM academy (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics). It will be an experience center for young and old, where science and technology are the common thread. In addition, trained people from the VUB could support the lessons. Read more here and on HLN. VUB spin-off Axiles Bionics enters the market Thursday 19/09/2019 Axiles Bionics announces that it has successfully completed a €2.4M Series A financing round, led by its co-founders and several private investors, including VUB and ULB alumni. The spin-off develops an innovative smart robotic ankle-foot prosthesis for lower limb amputees. VUB-VIB spin-off AgroSavfe raises €35m Wednesday 11/09/2019 AgroSavfe, a rapidly growing and transformative Crop and Food protection company developing a new generation of protein-based biocontrols to protect food from farm to fork, announced the closing of a Series C financing round. World scoop in robotic surgery at UZ Brussel Thursday 22/08/2019 In the Center for Cardiovascular Diseases at UZ Brussel, a patient with Dunbar's syndrome had surgery through robotic surgery for the first time. A robot-assisted procedure is less invasive for the patient, which means that he/she has less pain, recovers faster and has to stay 3 to 4 days less in the hospital. Europe invests in research into self-healing robots Wednesday 07/08/2019 Over the next three years, researchers from the VUB, University of Cambridge, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI-Paris) and Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) will be working together with the Dutch Polymer manufacturer SupraPolix on the next generation of robots: (soft) robots that ‘feel pain’ and heal them… VUB project SurgeLight wins MedTech Accelerator Thursday 18/07/2019 This year’s winner is VUB researcher Hans Ingelberts of the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO). His project SurgeLight aims at developing a surgery guidance system capable of simultaneous and real-time visualization of specific tissues of interest such as tumors, nerves and blood vessels. Official foundation of the Green Energy Park Monday 08/07/2019 On Thursday the 4th of July VUB and UZ Brussel officially founded the non-profit organization 'Green Energy Park', the future living lab for green energy and mobility, the hospital of the future, smart cities and smart AI technologies. The research hub will be located on the Researchpark Zellik in brand new state-of-the-art buildings. Discover Green Energy Park's website here. Confo Therapeutics receives €1.7 million grant from VLAIO Tuesday 02/07/2019 VUB-VIB spin-off and emerging drug discovery company Confo Therapeutics has been awarded a €1.7 million grant from Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO). The grant will run over two years and will support one of the company’s proprietary pre-clinical programs, targeting a neurological orphan indication. Pharrowtech, an imec spin-off with contributions from VUB, raises €6m Tuesday 02/07/2019 Pharrowtech, an imec spin-off and designer of chip and antenna solutions for high-speed wireless applications has raised more than €6 million for its Seed investment round. Social robot improves healthcare Wednesday 26/06/2019 The imec.icon ROBO-CURE research project, in collaboration with UZ Brussel, VUB, Cronos, QBMT, Medtronic Belgium, imec & UGent, developed a social robot that can autonomously offer better and more personalised care to patients with chronic diseases. VUB scientists further unravel secrets of proteins with the help of Artificial Intelligence Thursday 20/06/2019 Proteins perform a wide variety of functions in cells through interactions with each other and many additional molecules. VUB professor dr. Wim Vranken, doctoral researcher Gabriele Orlando and Dr. Daniele Raimoni of the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels (IB)² developed a new AI-method “ShiftCrypt”. Pages « First ‹ Previous … 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 (current) 32 Next › Last »
