Collaborations

We have a close collaboration with the following laboratories:

The Ligon lab for personalized medicine and brain tumor research - led by Prof. Keith Ligon
The Research Group Experimental Neurosurgery and Neuroanatomy of Prof. Steven De Vleeschouwer
The VIB Switch laboratory of Prof. Joost Schymkowitz and Prof. Frederic Rousseau
UZLeuven: neurosurgery, neuropathology and neuro-oncology
The KULeuven Flow and Mass Cytometry facility led by Pier Andrée Penttila
Trace, the PDTX platform of KULeuven
Saeys Unit - Data Mining and Modeling for Biomedicine
The team of Prof. Bart De Moor at STADIUS, KULeuven.
MUMC+ Maastricht (Dr. Ann Hoeben, Dr. Jan Beckervordersandforth, Prof. Marc Vooijs, Prof. Kasper Rouschop.
The Leuven Stem Cell Institute (SCIL) - Prof. Catherine Verfaillie
The Nanobiology group, led by Prof. Peter Dedecker.
Collaboration with the research group of Prof. Dirk Daelemans.
Thanks to a very generous gift from QBD, we are now collaborating with the team of Prof. Pieter Van Vlierberghe and Steven Goossens at the University Gent.

We collaborate with multiple hospitals in Belgium to collect fresh brain tumor samples:

UZLeuven (Prof. Steven De Vleeschouwer, Prof. Paul Clement, Prof. Raf Sciot, Prof. Sandra Jacobs)
Europe hospitals Brussels (Prof. Michiel Verfaillie)
AZNikolaas (Dr. David Vanderplancken)
Jessa, Hasselt (Dr. Sven Bamps, Prof. Eric Put)
ZOL, Genk (Dr. Frank Weyns, Dr. Thomas Daenekindt)

In case you want to initiate a novel collaboration, please reach out to Prof. Frederik De Smet.