The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and VIB are partnering to build a bio-incubator on the VUB campus. To this end, they set up Bio Incubator Brussels bv. In this incubator, starting spin-offs will...
Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel have developed an innovative method with which IgE antibodies can be easily isolated from human blood. These antibodies play an important role in...
Looking for collaboration in your research field? Nowadays researchers are expected to collaborate with a broad field of players: colleagues – often from different disciplines – , companies, non-...
Sourdough bread has promising health benefits because it contains higher levels of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It is gaining in popularity but the production process demands a lot of effort...
Become part of ERIS , the European Research and Innovation Support team of VUB TechTransfer and work in a team of 4 people who carry out the i-ISO approach, to support the VUB research community in...
We are back with a new documentary series about VUB's innovative research on Kanaal Z! Tune in every Thursday evening at 8pm. First episode on April 21 . Find an overview of the episodes here
More research into cancer in all its facets is and remains urgently needed. But it costs a lot. Through VUB legacies, important additional investments can be made within top research teams that have...
The government of Japan establishes a Japan chair at the Centre For Security, Diplomacy And Strategy (CSDS) of the VUB Brussels School Of Governance (BSOG) . This Chair shall further promote a deeper...
Kevin Langlois and Joris De Winter of the VUB Brubotics team made the finals of the KUKA Innovation Award 2022. This year, the KUKA Innovation Award is all about medicine and healthcare. Because new...
Women remain underrepresented in high-tech and scientific sectors, with only 29% of PhD graduates in engineering across the EU and only 10% of patent applications coming from women inventors. Next to...
There are various methods for detecting extraterrestrial life. But almost all of them come up against a fundamental question. What we call life: is it similar elsewhere in space to what we know here...
Space expertise at the VUB The VUB performs a lot of research in the space sector. Aurélie Bellemans, assistant professor of Applied Mechanics, tries to simplify very complicated computer models for...
Self-learning algorithms are increasingly a part of our lives. But what decisions can these algorithms make? A simple “computer says no” without transparency or objection? Many professionals working...
Investing in spin-offs from world-class knowledge partners Qbic, an inter-university venture capital firm focusing on the transformation of technological breakthroughs into sustainable businesses,...
The ERIS team of the VUB Vicerectorate Innovation & Industry Relations has launched its renewed strategy reinforced by a new team and textminer to better support its researchers looking for EU...
Confo Therapeutics, VIB-VUB spin-off and leader in the discovery of medicines targeting G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), announced that the first subjects have been dosed in the company’s Phase 1...
Couples unable to get pregnant naturally often resort to In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) to fulfil their desire to have children. To obtain mature eggs for IVF, women typically undergo ovarian...
Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting more than 10 million people worldwide. This number is likely to increase as the population ages, and unfortunately...
RE-Place is a scientific project coordinated by the VUB and Sciensano that aims to collect the available expertise on alternative methods to animal testing, also known as “New Approach Methodologies...
We are looking for a technology transfer officer focused on spin-off coaching . Read the job description here . Send your CV and motivation letter to hugo.loosvelt@vub.be before February 28.
Turn your designs into prototypes that are fully functional, deployable in the field and gather usability data for you … without writing a single line of code! Weave.ly enables companies to quickly...
Belgian and Polish world-renown experts and professors have teamed up in the project named “CHARMING”, an Excellence of Science project funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders that uses the...
VUB spin-off Axiles Bionics won the Innovative Starters Award 2021. With the Innovative Starters Award (ISA) programme, Innoviris annually supports ambitious start-ups & scale-ups that are...
eTheRNA immunotherapies announces the start of a strategic partnership with Merck with the signing of a Research Agreement. The partnership will investigate the application of eTheRNA’s proprietary...
The VUB is an Urban Engaged University that is firmly committed to the fight against cancer through scientific research. Scientists from various fields – medicine, bioengineering, pharmacy,...
Nowadays new cars mainly consist of the very light metal aluminum and magnesium, which are not directly connected to corrosion. But that isn't quite right. Firstly, other materials are used, such as...
The Industrial Research Fund (IOF) is an earmarked University Association Fund that is annually fed with a block grant from the Flemish Government. Each year IOF finances knowledge centers that...
Why are buildings being demolished and how can we influence decision making processes of building teams? How do narratives on the city and architectural taste influence whether a building will be...
More than 500 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes. Today the monitoring process is expensive and time consuming and not all patients can be reached. A consortium of the VUB and UZ Brussel...
The department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) of the VUB and imec built-up a reputation in the domain of computer-generated holography. This technology is key to providing high-end media...
Confo Therapeutics is a rising star in Belgium, featured on several local and international lists of up-and-coming biotechs. The company, launched in 2015 as a VUB/VIB spin-off is now taking the big...
The Smart Village Lab is the first physical realisation of the Green Energy Park, which was founded by the VUB and the UZ Brussel and will investigate how living in the future can become smart,...
EsoBiotec, a recently founded biotech company, announces a EUR 6 million pre-series A round comprised of non-dilutive funding from the Walloon Government combined with seed investments from venture...
VUB research by research group Human Physiology and Sports Physiotherapy (MFYS) shows that more than half of European workers have long-term muscle and bone complaints. Innovative robots, cobots and...
PharmaFluidics is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science. This acquisition brings about new opportunities to create greater value and strengthens its ability to...
Within TechTransfer, the ERIS team is responsible for assisting VUB's research community in their quest for European funding for applied research. Specifically within VUB, ERIS is responsible for...
CIRAD, as coordinator of a consortium of 21 partners of which the VUB, has launched a new project to combat animal trypanosomosis, a parasitic disease transmitted by biting flies, including the...
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VUB spin-off Precirix , a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel radiopharmaceuticals in oncology, and the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), a manufacturer of radiopharmaceutical...
VUB TechTransfer helps researchers to valorise scientific research results and continuously strives to connect the university’s research-expertise with industry and society. Together with you we want...
August brought us exciting news from 3 VUB spin-offs: eTheRNA , Fertiga and Precirix . They are active in the health sector and develop life-changing innovations in fertility and for the treatment of...
MICROLAB: VUB launching a new open access cleanroom for microfabrication of microfluidic devices in glass and silicon Microfluidics is a recent multidisciplinary scientific field concerned with the...
eTheRNA immunotherapies NV, a clinical-stage company developing mRNA-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases, announced the opening of its new subsidiary, eTheRNA...
Precirix NV, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel radiopharmaceuticals in oncology, and 3P Biopharmaceuticals S.L.U. (3P), a leading CDMO based in Spain specializing in process...
The VUB and VUB spin-off iCense conducted a survey among Belgians to find out people’s reasons for choosing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 or not. The results show that the majority of the...
BitaGreen wins European Impact Shakers Award BitaGreen is preparing a start-up from the VUB research group on hydrology in the framework of a VLAIO Innovatie mandate. BitaGreen offers solutions for...
Parkwind selected 24SEA , a VUB spin-off, for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of the structural health monitoring systems on the WTG support structures at Parkwind's...
Belgian companies operating in the wind energy sector are among the world leaders today. Partly because our country was already a pioneer in this type of renewable energy in the 1990s, but also...
eTheRNA immunotherapies , a clinical-stage company and VUB spin-off developing mRNA-based immunotherapies with in-house GMP certified production and process development capabilities, and Quantoom...
In recent years, a lot of resources have been invested in new school infrastructure. But are these the schools of and for the future? The past shows that the regional and local vision on education...
New training programme for postdocs to boost their entrepreneurship skills imπACT is a 5-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) COFUND programme of around €3M, hosted by the VUB to develop a...
The plans of B-PHOT Brussels Photonics for the construction of the STEAM Academy in Gooik are approved. In 2023, the Academy will become an educational center where science, technology, engineering,...
VIPCOAT platform launched to make coating industry innovative, sustainable and green Vrije Universiteit Brussel is one of 12 partners in seven countries involved in the new VIPCOAT project, which was...
Innovative research at VUB supports transition to circular bio-based society For decades, we have been extracting materials from natural sources such as fossil fuels without considering the...
VUB spin-off PharmaFluidics launches its next generation µPAC™ technology for routine proteomics. PharmaFluidics’ µPAC™ micro-fluidic chips allow to separate and analyze complex biological samples...
VUB project brings citizens and experts together to develop AI solutions around climate, health, mobility and work Together with Scivil, the Flemish Knowledge Center for Citizen Science, the imec-...
Geologist Niels de Winter , researcher at the VUB research group AMGC (Analytical, Environmental and Geo-Chemistry) and Utrecht University was nominated for the title New Scientist Science Talent...
Customised medicine offers solution An international team of experts has provided a breakthrough in the study of chronic pain in rheumatoid arthritis patients. “We discovered that hypersensitivity is...
Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in cooperation with research and consultancy firm Deep Blue conducted a survey on the acceptance of clean technologies and how citizens would feel...
VUB spin-off Confo Therapeutics announced that it has been awarded a €1 million grant from VLAIO. The grant will support the pre-clinical development of CFTX-1554, Confo’s lead candidate for...
Important new clues for future cancer immunotherapies Human glioblastoma tumors are aggressive hard-to-treat brain cancers that have a high unmet need for new treatment options. A team of researchers...
VUB FloodCitiSense project brings breakthrough in systematic mapping of flood problems March winds and April showers herald summers of intense downpours, leading to localised pluvial flooding...
imπACT is a 5-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) COFUND programme, of around 3 million Euro, recently awarded to the VUB to develop a dedicated training programme for international post-...
Injection of funds to counteract coronavirus effects The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is providing an extra injection of €2.6 million in research funding to partially offset the negative effects of the...
VUB, ULB and the Brussels Capital Region government announce the launch of a new Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good Institute during the Belgian AI Week of AI4Belgium. FARI is a unique...
DIASTOLE prepares heart surgery by computer simulations in 4D What if heart specialists could simulate the fitting of a new heart valve in 4D before an operation? 4D CT scanners add the dimension of...
Camille Gaulier , joint-PhD from the AMGC Research Department at VUB and the University of Lille is the winner of the VLIZ North Sea Award 2020. VLIZ is the Flanders Marine Institute. The VLIZ North...
We are looking for an Incubator Manager to join our team. Read the job description below and contact sonja.haesen@vub.be (before April 15th) if you are interested. pdf file vacature_incubator_manager...
For many rare diseases, the genetic defects that cause them are known. There is even better news: the search for ways of repairing these defects is also progressing. Prof. Thierry VandenDriessche (...
Innovations will make sports in virtual world possible Research into sports in virtual reality (VR) will soon start at the VUB. It will be carried out via a new VR box: a high-tech room in which...
Together with VLIR and TTO Flanders we present a new brochure "From idea to impact" about how the 5 Flemish universities innovate for a better society and how they make a difference. This publication...
Port of Antwerp and VUB spin-off Zensor are joining forces to increase safety at the quay walls. Zensor developed the Bollard Monitor, a digital sensor that measures the tension on a bollard. The...
Prof. Dr. Mathieu Vinken, pharmacist-toxicologist affiliated with the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences of the VUB, will be responsible for the general coordination of the “...
Jette student block is pioneer for an energy-efficient campus VUB research group MOBI has begun an energy consumption study in the student accommodation on campus Jette. For 18 months, the students...
icovid is being rolled out across Europe and is on the OECD shortlist for AI initiatives against current and future pandemics The Belgian initiative icovid, which supports radiologists in the...
The SPIE Gold Medal is the highest honor in the field of photonics . It is awarded in recognition of outstanding engineering or scientific accomplishments in optics, photonics, electro-optics, or...
Research2B is the network gathering the different Knowledge Transfer Offices from universities and university colleges of Brussels. The network consists of the VUB, ULB, Université Saint-Louis –...
VIB introduces an upgrade to its toolbox for structural analysis of biological molecules, leading the way for drug development. These tools help to overcome critical obstacles that limit the...
Please take note of the amended guidelines for research and applied research and valorisation. From now on research with test subjects on campus is in principle not allowed (unless digital). This...
Researchers from the lab of Wim Versées (VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology) in collaboration with the team of Patrik Verstreken (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research) presents...
It's full speed ahead for interuniversity scientific excellence, as Flemish universities are pooling their resources to finance interuniversity research consortia for the first time. They are...
The Methusalem programme is one of the most prestigious types of funding in Flanders. This year, Prof Mathieu Vinken and Prof Gert Desmet will receive long-term structural funding for respectively...
VUB professor Wim Distelmans supports app to help care providers Forum Palliative Care and LevensEinde InformatieForum (LEIF), part of the Waardig Levenseinde Expertise Centre in Wemmel, are...
The transformation to climate neutrality is a particularly difficult task, not least because basic industry still relies heavily on fossil resources. Researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel...
125 million euros from the Vlaamse Veerkracht recovery plan will go to research and innovation on hydrogen, says Minister of Economy Hilde Crevits. Hydrogen is used for storing, converting and...
Looking for an introduction about our services and the support we offer to the VUB research community? Interested in an overview of the funding opportunities in Flanders, Brussels and Europe? Or a...
Flemish Minister of Innovation Hilde Crevits grants €430,000 in support to CAPTURE, the research platform of the VUB, Ghent University, UAntwerpen and VITO. CAPTURE focuses on research on the...
VUB geochemist and palaeoclimatologist Niels de Winter has received an Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award from the European Geosciences Union (EGU). EGU is the most important geoscientific...
NEW START-UP ANIMAB SECURES €3.4M SEED INVESTMENT TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE OF LIVESTOCK ANIMALS Animab, a venture spin-off from VIB, announces today that it has successfully concluded a €3...
Marwa ElDiwiny, doctoral researcher in robotics at the VUB, has been included in Robohub's annual 30 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About list . The list is drawn up every year on 13 October, on...
VUB researcher Victor Grosu wins MedTech Accelerator 2020 with SMARCOS project Robots and humans are now able to work together to counter societal challenges such as the ageing population and the...
Open marketplace for research, valorisation and training on resource recovery technologies CAPTURE brings together universities/research centres; companies; public organisations and governments to...
VUB revolutionises research into surface bonding With his doctoral research on the effect of paint layers on metal, Dr Sven Pletincx, supervised by Prof Tom Hauffman and Prof Herman Terryn of the VUB...
The Francqui Foundation has awarded the Collen-Francqui Start-Up Grant to VUB/VIB professor Damya Laoui. In addition to a financial allowance of €200.000, this three-year mandate also includes a...
VUB Professor Cathy Macharis released her new book called ‘Met een factor 8 naar de mobiliteit van de toekomst’, in which she highlights the impact of the transport sector on climate change and that...
Hundreds of innovators, research pioneers, clinicians, industry leaders and policy makers from all around Europe are united by a vision of how to revolutionize healthcare. In two publications - a...
Seppe is a PhD student at the VUB at the mechanical department in the Robotic & MultyBody (R&MM) research group, part of BruBotics . Through a collaboration with the Physical Chemistry and...
No fewer than four Vrije Universiteit Brussel researchers are receiving the European Commission's prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant this year. Togtether, the four grants total more...
Researchers from the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel have succeeded in building metal parts that automatically indicate when they are overloaded or are causing...
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a partner in the Smart Village Lab project, the first physical realisation of innovative living lab Green Energy Park. The lab will investigate how living can become...
Swave Photonics, an innovator in Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR) technology to bring the metaverse to life, announced a €7 million seed round. The investment will be used to fund the...
Over the next four years, archaeologists from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, together with a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), the KULeuven and...
A research team from the department ETRO-VUB led by Professor Johan Stiens and Dr Ali Pourkazemi has developed a radar that can look inside and through walls, ceilings and floors. The device will be...
The VUB is working with a consortium of partners, including Green Energy Park vzw, on a unique technique to determine the insulation level of existing walls without demolition and demolition work ...
VUB spin-off Precirix , a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing precision radiopharmaceuticals in oncology, today announces the closing of a €80M Series B financing round led by new...
The VUB research group Biology of the Testis (BITE) of Prof. Ellen Goossens (together with UZ Brussel) will be the first worldwide to re-implant previously collected testicular tissue in men, who do...
Read the articles about the large-scale living lab Green Energy Park and the one-stop-shop for photonics in De Standaard. We teamed up with Maarten Messagie and Thierry Coosemans of the VUB research...
VUB spin-off Collibra has raised $250M in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital. This makes Collibra the most valuable Belgian tech company. Collibra is an enterprising software company and a spin-...
Our Flemish top athletes are ready for the Olympic Games, partly thanks to scientific innovation When the Olympic Games take place in Tokyo this summer, temperatures above 30 degrees and humidity of...
Researchers from the VUB and ULB have succeeded in extracting gold, silver and other precious materials from the Brussels sewage water. With the SUBLIMUS project they are looking for a way to do this...
The EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Federal Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and State Secretary Thomas Dermine visited BeCentral, to announce the Relance and Resiliance Plan for...
eTheRNA immunotherapies , a clinical-stage company developing mRNA-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases, announces the expansion of its strategic collaboration...
Reinventing Food Protection The agrotechnology company Biotalys has decided to take the step to the Brussels stock exchange. Two new investors - the public fund FPIM and the bank BNP Paribas -...
Wind energy is an important renewable energy source, but the maintenance of wind farms is a very complex and expensive process. Reducing these costs is essential if the renewable energy from wind...
Fertiga is a spin-off company from one of the global IVF leading centers; UZ Brussel. UZ Brussel has been pioneering in IVF, with the first ICSI baby worldwide born in 1992. Fertiga developed a test...
VUB spin-off PRECIRIX and Evergreen Theragnostics, a radiopharmaceutical contract manufacturer, announced that they have entered into an agreement whereby Evergreen will provide US-based...
VUB investigates whether treated wastewater via underground infiltration can help agriculture In recent years, Flanders has been confronted with long and intense periods of drought. While natural...
A new VUB spin-off named ABSCINT NV was established, based on technology developed by the joint research efforts of the teams of Prof. Dr. Tony Lahoutte and Prof. Dr. Jo Van Ginderachter at VUB and...
VUB spin-off Collibra announced the acquisition of OwlDQ, a leading provider of predictive data quality software. OwlDQ uses machine learning to detect anomalies in data, to generate data quality...
NUMECA joins Cadence, leader in Intelligent System Design Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NUMECA International, VUB spin-off and...
VUB spin-off Precirix , a private, clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel radiopharmaceuticals in oncology, announces the appointment of Dr. Niva Almaula, an experienced business...
This new VUB spin-off, in collaboration with imec, developed a video game for children who stutter. In their associated ETRO-Lab they used software technology and speech recognition. They are...
VUB spin-off eTheRNA immunotherapies NV today announced it has entered into a strategic cooperation and product license agreement with China Grand Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Holdings Ltd to...
PhotonHub Europe will stimulate technological innovation of SMEs and mid-caps Photonics – the science and technology of light – is a key digital technology that is radically transforming the...
Knowing what citizens and consumers really think of new measures, products or advertising is crucial for governments and businesses. But it is often difficult to find out. iCense, a new spin-off from...
Camel-IDS, VUB spin-off and a private, clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel radiopharmaceuticals in oncology, today announces the launch of a new corporate identity and company name...
One year after successfully completing a € 2.4M Series A financing round, Axiles Bionics announces a new R&D collaboration with BruBotics Research group from Vrije Universiteit Brussel to achieve...
Across Europe, 40 million workers suffer from muscle, joint and nerve pain caused by physically demanding tasks. Moreover, such musculoskeletal disorders are the cause of as many as half of all...
More than 1,5 years ago, Steven Powell became the CEO of the VUB spin-off eTheRNA. Since then, Powell has been working on an ambitious business plan for the company. With the second round of capital...
In January, Parisian mayor Anne Hidalgo announced a plan to transform Paris into a 'Ville Du Quart D´Heure' with less traffic and more freedom. Now is the time for Flanders to follow, says the...
An optical nanomotion detection method developed at Vrije Universiteit Brussel with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland shows that living yeast cells exhibit specific...
Humans and robots are increasingly working together. To make this collaboration as safe as possible for people and for the work they do, “soft robots” made of flexible and soft materials are becoming...
VUB spin-off eTheRNA received €34 million to bankroll the development of its mRNA technologies, as well as a suite of mRNA immunotherapies for cancer and infectious diseases, including a program...
The TOR research group has been conducting time-use research since 1982. Together with hbits , a Vrije Universiteit Brussel spin-off, TOR launches the time-use survey to map out the consequences of...
The study by the MOBI research group about the mobility behavior before, during and – the perspectives on – after the lock-down in Belgium is finished. The results show that especially the bicycle,...
Researchers from the VUB, the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), Harvard University (USA), the National University of Singapore (Singapore), and CNST (Italy) have developed the world's first...
Researcher Albert De Beir of research group BruBotics developed a plastic adaptor to turn a snorkelling mask into an emergency mask for medical staff. Already 100 masks were made through 3D printing...
Researchers from the VUB research group Neuro-Aging and Viro-Immunotherapy (NAVI) collect blood samples from COVID-19 patients to examine their immune system during and after their illness. With the...
A group of top scientists from the universities of Hasselt, Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels have set up a corona consortium this week. These are specialized 'modelers', who predict with mathematical...
Pharmacists stand strong but Covid-19 takes its toll: 2 out of 3 pharmacy visits are coronavirus-related, but 40% not essential. These are among the findings of the latest survey, conducted between...
If the number of covid-19 patients in Belgium continues to rise, there may be a shortage of artificial respirators. A team of engineers at Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s FabLab Brussels has therefore...
Today more and more companies & individuals are using solar panels. Good and sunny weather leads to surpluses of green energy, but according to VUB researchers, the current support measures do...
VUB spin-off Double pass specialised in sport technical and talent development management, has been chosen as the partner to roll out FIFA’s new groundbreaking Talent Development Programme. This...
In cancer, AI has shown great promise in characterizing tumors, suggesting appropriate treatments and predicting patient survival. Despite the large potential impact on patient well-being and outcome...
A consortium of the VUB and three Flemish companies has a budget of 3 million euros to test a new immunotherapy on patients with colon cancer. (Ex-) professor Kris Thielemans (VUB) is the scientific...
The VUB AI Experience Center is a high-tech test, demonstration and meeting environment where companies, technological entrepreneurs, researchers and policy makers can experiment with AI and work...
In only a couple of days, the VUB spin-off Konligo that wants to revolutionise the event sector, has raised €300.000. The objective is to accelerate the development of its lightweight and...
“Ghostly” is an Android game for rehabilitation of patients suffering from motor and neuro-muscular disorders . In the game’s challenging and rewarding game scenarios, a character will be controlled...
Athletes can get overtrained. Not good for the body of course, but when are they really going too far and how bad are the consequences? The research team of Romain Meeusen of the research group MFYS...
Felix Van de Maele, CEO of VUB spin-off Collibra , was named a person of the year by De Tijd. Collibra was the first belgian unicorn in 2019 . The company was founded in 2008. Today it has about 600...
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...
VUB and the University of Antwerp have launched the Knowledge Platform Diversity, Urbanism & Citizenship, a unique collaboration between the two universities, which will be located in Mechelen...
The Flemish government has established the Knowledge Center Data & Society (Kenniscentrum Data & Maatschappij). It focuses on the interplay between data, artificial intelligence and society...
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...
The Applied Physics research group of the VUB has developed a new generation of optical computers, so-called Coherent Ising machines. Such a "coherent Ising machine" can be considerably faster and...
In the past two decades, the number of young researchers in Flanders has increased considerably. However, the number of permanent jobs at the universities has remained the same, what makes more and...
The aim of the VUB-ULB project SUBLIMUS is to develop a cheap and green way to harvest gold and silver from the sludge residues of the sewage treatment plants of the Brussels-Capital Region. The...
VUB spin-off Fertiga announces the closure of its first financing round together with Novalis Biotech Incubation and international private investors. Its product, the Corona Test was initially...
VUB spin-off Camel-IDS announced the appointment of Ruggero Della Bitta MD, PhD, as Chief Medical Officer. Read the press release .
CapitalG, an investment arm of Google parent Alphabet, has led a $100 million funding round in the data technology spin-off Collibra. The investment puts the company on a list of startups known as...
VUB spin-off eTheRNA announces the recruitment of the first patient for a collaborative TriMix-BRE study to investigate the effect of the TriMix product as neo-adjuvant treatment (treatment before...
Founder of VUB spin-off Collibra Felix Van De Maele was a guest in the studio at BRUZZ. He tells that 10 years ago the Brussels Region was the only investor that believed in his idea and that is why...
Reuters Top 100 institutions all produce original research, create useful technology and stimulate the global economy. More than 600 universities were screened. VUB Ranks 59 which is a very good...
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...
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...
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...
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. This ambitious investment...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
