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Flemish government invests in VUB researchers
In the past two decades, the number of young researchers in Flanders has increased considerably.
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VUB brings us closer to new supercomputer
The Applied Physics research group of the VUB has developed a new generation of optical computers, so-called Coherent Ising machines.
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VUB opens AI Experience Center
The new VUB AI Experience Center is a space to experiment with AI and robotics and to produce technological solutions, and allows participants to strengthen their digital skills.
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Will we soon be vaccinated against cancer?
Immunotherapy is a treatment that stimulates our own immune system to guard itself against cancer. But can we ever completely eliminate cancer? Eos-editor Kim Verhaeghe asked VUB /VIB researcher Damya Laoui. Listen to the podcast here.
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New CT-scanner at UZ Brussel
At the UZ Brussel, radiologists for patients who undergo a 3D diagnostic examination at the Emergency Department and the Intensive Care Unit have recently been using a new generation CT-scanner. Of which only three are in use worldwide.
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The Analytical Scientist Power List 2019
Gert Desmet, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering (CHIS) at VUB, was ranked at the prestigious 7th place in the top 100 of the Power List.
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Innovative computer model to optimise freight traffic
VUB scientist Tomas Ambra developed a new computer model that maps the currently fragmented freight transport process in real time and proposes better solutions using information such as weather forecasts and congestion.
“The model can help to better coordinate the different modes of rai...
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Knowledge Center Data & Society
The Flemish government has established the Knowledge Center Data & Society (Kenniscentrum Data & Maatschappij). It focuses on the interplay between data, artificial intelligence and society.
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The success of immunotherapy
Prof. dr. Bart Neyns and his colleagues of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences have made remarkable strides in a new treatment of cancer whereby one's own body cells are used to attack the tumor.
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