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Recent press releases
Tips and tricks to win translational research fellowships
16 March 2015
There is a need for more information or training on the preparation for the interview associated with the IWT fellowship selection process.
Barry Callebaut, VIB and KU Leuven optimize cocoa fermentation process
12 March 2015
Inspired by Belgian beer brewers: Newly developed yeast helps make chocolate more delicious
Philippe Muyters opens GMP facility Q-Biologicals, SEPS Pharma and VIB
6 March 2015
Unique expertise and GMP infrastructure increase international appeal of Flemish biotech sector
European researchers point to the importance of animal testing
5 March 2015
More than hundred European scientific organizations, including VIB, oppose the citizens’ initiative Stop Vivisection to ban all research using animals in Europe.
New tools raise the bar for protein research
2 March 2015
Two recent publications by Lennart Martens, associated with VIB and Ghent University, have launched a new eco system for life sciences data.
European Research Council grants: Good news for EU-LIFE centres, but with a bitter aftertaste
18 February 2015
EU-LIFE European research centres obtained 14 new ERC Starting and Consolidator grants in the latest competitions, which takes the total of ERC-funded grants currently running in centres belonging to the alliance to over 100.
Thank you, fruit flies, for that pleasing beer aroma
17 February 2015
Joaquin Christiaens, Kevin Verstrepen (VIB/KU Leuven), Luis Franco and Emre Yaksi (NERF, VIB/KU Leuven/imec), working together with Bassem Hassan (VIB/KU Leuven), have discovered why yeast makes aromatic compounds.
New insights into bacterial protein secretion
13 February 2015
Using X-ray crystallography, Parveen Goyal and Han Remaut (VIB/Vrije Universiteit Brussel) created a detailed three-dimensional image of the pores through which the curli building blocks cross the bacterial cell envelope.
4 ERC Consolidator Grants for VIB top scientists
12 February 2015
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded another 4 VIB scientists!
ABMM Award for Delphine Bouhy and Jonathan Beats
29 January 2015
Delphine Bouhy and Jonathan Baets, post-doctoral scientists at the VIB Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Antwerp, were awarded a research grant by the Belgian Foundation for Neuromuscular Diseases (ABMM).
Sigma-Aldrich® and VIB Form Alliance to Provide Scientists with Enhanced and Faster Access to Novel Translational Research
22 January 2015
Alliance will leverage Sigma-Aldrich’s leading manufacturing and global distribution capabilities to provide accelerated access to VIB’s innovative research products, tools and technologies.
Quick scan science topics December 2014
13 January 2015
Sequence HEK293 cells available for entire research community
8 January 2015
The groups of Nico Callewaert (VIB/UGent), Yves Van de Peer (VIB/UGent) and Jan Tavernier (VIB/UGent) sequenced six HEK293 cell lines using whole-genome resequencing.
Stem cell research offers new insights into how dementia develops
5 January 2015
Researchers at KU Leuven and the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) have succeeded in correcting a genetic mutation thought to cause frontotemporal dementia.
Interview with Brian Kobilka and Jan Steyaert
18 December 2014
Brian Kobilka shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz. A couple of months ago Kobilka was in Brussels to give a talk about his work on invitation of Jan Steyaert (VIB/Vrije Universiteit brussel).
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