VIB scientists overview

Cardiovascular medicine

  • Gabriele Bergers Lab
    • Functional irregulation of the tumor microenvironment and tumor cell compartment
    • Tumor niches and therapeutic resistance
    • Resistance to antiangiogenic therapy
    • Vascular and immunomodulation in cancer

  • Cédric Blanpain Lab*
    • ​ERC group
    • embryonic development
    • stem cells and adult homeostasis
    • stem cells and tumor initiation
    • cancer stem cells

  • Peter Carmeliet Lab
    • ERC group​
    • Vascular metabolism & (lymph)angiogenesis
    • Omics analysis of healthy and diseased human and mouse endothelial/vascular cells to understand and target metabolic pathways
    • Therapeutic anti-angiogenesis: tumor vessel normalization (TVN)
    • Endothelial cell metabolic target discovery and drug development

  • Holger Gerhardt Lab
    • ERC group
    • Importance of tip cell biology in vascular patterning, tumour angiogenesis and ischemic disease

     

  • Metabolomics Expertise Center
    • ​metabolism: (un)targeted profiling of diverse classes of metabolites
    • mass spectrometry: gas and liquid chromatography set-ups
    • metabolic crosstalk: epigenetics, protein modifications, ....
    • 13C metabolic tracer studies

  • Diether Lambrechts Lab
    • ERC group
    • Leverage the genetic and epigenetic annotation of tumors to improve cancer prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy
    • Apply cutting-edge genetic technologies and bioinformatics and integrate genomic data sets with clinical and fundamental biological information
    • To characterize how the tumor microenvironment influences tumor cells and determines response to cancer therapies

  • Massimiliano Mazzone Lab
    • ERC group
    • Genetic and molecular mechanisms regulating blood vessel formation
    • Influence of the microenvironment on macrophage phenotypes and positioning in the context of cancer and ischemia
    • Metabolic control of tumor immunity and resistance to immunotherapy

  • Thomas Voets Lab
    • ​​​TRP Ion Channels - Biophysics, function, (patho)physiology
    • Molecular and cellular basis of somatosensation
    • Pain - from molecular mechanisms to analgesic drug development