NEUR-O-AIMS
ALZHEIMER - DEMENTIA - MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY - NEUROCHEMISTRY - AI - MODELLING
EXPERTISE
NEUR has built up expertise in clinical trials for neurological and psychiatric brain disorders for more than 20 years, taking up roles as PI and national or global coordinating physicians for several clinical trials, as well as being involved in the design of some of these clinical trials. Based on license agreements of Sebastiaan Engelborghs as a promoter with ADx Neurosciences (2012) and Epilog (2017), these companies became UAntwerp spin-off companies. Sebastiaan Engelborghs is inventor of a patent on an assay for the diagnosis of a neurological disease.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel Laarbeeklaan 103 – 1090 Jette (Brussels) Jorne Laton Postdoctoral researcher - BD Manager NEUR-o-AIMS jorne.laton@vub.be Sebastiaan Engelborghs Professor - Head of NEUR sebastiaan.engelborghs@vub.be Guy Nagels Professor - Head of AIMS, Vice-head NEUR guy.nagels@vub.be Jeroen Van Schependom Professor – Head of AIMS jeroen.van.schependom@vub.be Rik van Heijningen
Business Development Manager rik.van.heijningen@vub.be
GROUP OF EXCELLENCE IN APPLIED RESEARCH - GEAR
NEUR, led by Sebastiaan Engelborghs, unifies all clinical researchers from the UZ Brussel departments Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. NEUR is a part of the Center for Neurosciences of the VUB, of which Sebastiaan Engelborghs is co-director. He has interdisciplinary expertise in clinical neurology and neurosciences, including electrophysiology, neuro-imaging, biochemistry and neuropathology. AIMS is an interdisciplinary research group that builds upon expertise in AI and clinical modelling, with extensive experience in the collection and advanced processing of large datasets. The interdisciplinary character is exemplified by the background of the two main PIs: Guy Nagels is a neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis with a master’s degree in computer engineering and is pursuing a DPhil at the University of Oxford. Jeroen Van Schependom is a Physics Engineer with a PhD and postdoc within medical sciences.
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