Ana Lucia Rosales Rosas received the 3rd poster prize for graduate students at the 37th International Conference on Antiviral Research (ICAR) in Gold Coast, Australia, for her poster on the antiviral effect of JNJ-A07 against dengue virus in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes! Congratulations Ana!! Ana and… Lees meer »Ana wins the 3rd place poster award at ICAR 2024!
Leen Delang received the Dubois-Brigué prize for Tropical Pathology from the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine on the 28th of October 2023 for her work on the development of new strategies to fight infections with mosquito-borne viruses. The Dubois-Brigué prize is awarded once every three… Lees meer »Leen Delang wins the Dubois-Brigué prize for Tropical Pathology
Today we welcome Alekxander Binderup for a research stay in our team! Alekxander is a second year PhD student working at the Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program led by Prof. Jens Bukh. His PhD supervisor is Prof. Santseharay Ramirez. He studies the antiviral activity of nucleotide… Lees meer »Welcome to Alekxander, visiting from Copenhagen!
On October 4, 2022, Lana defended her PhD at the Rega Institute in Leuven. She did a fantastic job! Congratulations Lana!! On the picture, you see Lana with her promotor and co-promotor, Leen and Johan, and two thesis jury members, Prof. Robby Stoks and Prof.… Lees meer »PhD defense of Lana Langendries
Ana received the Chu Family Foundation Scholarship for Women Scientists from the International Society for Antiviral Research. Congratulations Ana!! On the picture, you see Ana giving a speech at the ICAR conference dinner to thank the Chu family for the award. Ana will use the scholarship… Lees meer »Chu Family Foundation Scholarship for Ana
On November 25, Sofie defended her PhD at the Rega Institute in Leuven. She did a fantastic job! Congratulations Sofie!! It was great to have you in our team. We wish you all the best for the future!
On Saturday October 16, several members of our team participated in the Kinderuniversiteit organized at the Gasthuisberg campus in Leuven. On this day, children between 8 and 13 years old can come to the university to follow lectures and interactive workshops. Our team gave two… Lees meer »Participation in the University for children (Kinderuniversiteit)
Yesterday, our colleagues Johan Neyts and Suzanne Kaptein of the Rega Institute of KU Leuven published their work on a very potent antiviral drug against dengue virus in Nature. For an interview by the Belgian television, some shots were made of the Aedes aegypti in… Lees meer »Our mosquitoes on Belgian news
The mosquito season has started, which means we have also started our mosquito trapping campaign. On the 9th of June, we kicked off our mosquito collection campaign for the year 2021. During our mosquito collection campaign, we put BC sentinel traps on different locations in… Lees meer »Mosquito season started
Lana received the first poster prize for PhD students at ICAR 2021! Lana participated in the poster prize competition of the (virtual) International Conference for Antiviral Research 2021. With her work “Arbovirus infectivity is significantly reduced by components of the bacterial cell wall” she won… Lees meer »Poster prize for Lana!