PDC*line Pharma is GMP accredited by the Belgian Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP) for its Quality Control and Release Activities for PDC*lung, a drug for lung cancer immunotherapy
Liège (Belgium), 21st January 2019. PDC*line Pharma is delighted to announce, that the company is now accredited by the Belgian Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP) for the Quality Control and Release activities of its anticancer agent PDC*lung, intended for the treatment of patients with lung cancer. PDC*line Pharma is developing a new […]
First Congress in Health Simulation
The Medical Simulation Center of the University of Liège organizes its first congress in Health Simulation: “Towards evidence-based simulation”. Event will be held on Thursday, March 28th, 2019 in the faculty of medicine amphitheatres of Liège University, located on Sart-Tilman campus. Several themes will be discussed: Evidence-based Innovations and advances in simulation Medical education – […]
New University Certificate for clinical trials
The Clinical Sciences Department of the Medicine Faculty of the University of Liège organizes from the academic year 2018-2019 a University Certificate in clinical trials. More information is available in this folder
A new gene responsible for juvenile myoclonic epilepsy?
In collaboration with a team at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), researchers from GIGA-Neurosciences have discovered a new gene responsible for a seizure syndrome called juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). This discovery was made as part of an international consortium that studies genetic abnormalities responsible for epileptic diseases. It is being published this week in […]
New technologies available at the GIGA Imaging platform
The LIGHTSHEET MICROSCOPY can deliver optical sections, 3D reconstructions and timelapse movies of whole sample volumes at subcellular resolutions. The fast scan speeds and low phototoxicity of the lightsheet allow to record the development of fluorescent transgenic animals over long time periods, such as zebrafish embryos. Alternatively 3D reconstructions of fixed whole organs or whole embryos, […]
A team from the University of Liège has discovered a new crosstalk between the migrating inhibitory interneurons and the stem cells that generate the excitatory neurons
The researchers discovered that this cellular dialogue controls the growth of the cerebral cortex and that its impairment leads a cortical malformation previously associated with autism in mice . Their results are published in the prestigious scientific journal Cell. The cerebral cortex contains excitatory and inhibitory interneurons. The former are produced locally and move by […]
GIGA-Cardiovascular researchers identify and solve a major side effect of cancer and cholesterol treatments
In last November, Cécile Oury and her team have shown that CpG oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODN, small DNA molecules used in numerous cancer therapies) activate blood platelets (that greatly increases the risk of thrombotic accident) and identify potential inhibitory strategy with a drug available on the market, which completely cancels this effect and the inherent risks […]
VitriCell raises over €1 million ($1.2M) in series A funding
Liège, Belgium, January 23, 2018 – VitriCell SA, a biotech company providing innovative and efficient solutions for cryopreservation of even the most sensitive cells, discloses today that it closed a series A round of fundraising in the second half of 2017 totaling over €1 million ($1.2M). This consists of equity capital of €712,000 ($872K) from […]
A gammaherpesvirus infection can protect against allergic asthma
Bénédicte Machiels and Mickaël Dourcy, under the direction of Laurent Gillet (Laboratory of Immunology-Vaccinology (FARAH)), and their colleagues from ULiège and UGent, investigated the imprinting left by the herpesviruses, and more specifically gammaherpesviruses, on the immune system of their host. In fact, gammaherpesviruses (including the Epstein-Barr virus, responsible for infectious mononucleosis in humans) are very common viruses having co-evolved with […]
2017 Annual Meeting of the « Structure et Fonctions des Macromolécules Biologique Bioinformatique et Modélisation » Graduate school
On 10th November 2017, the 11th Annual Meeting of the Graduate school “Structure et Fonctions des Macromolécules Biologiques, Bioinformatique et Modélisation” (SFMBBM) is taking place at the University of Liège. This year’s meeting aims to represent the spectrum of biological macromolecules, from nucleic acids to proteins and their interactions, and from their physiological function to […]