The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is a dynamic university with 3 campuses in the Brussels Region: the Humanities, Sciences & Engineering parkland campus in Etterbeek, the Brussels Health Campus close to the university hospital UZ Brussel and the Brussels Technologies Campus in Anderlecht. Our centers of excellence in life sciences mainly focus on fertility, diabetes, molecular biology, industrial microbiology & food biotechnology, immunology & physiology, toxicology, dermato-cosmetology & pharmacognosy, and medical imaging.
The Brussels Center for Immunology, BCIM, research is based on employing cutting-edge molecular and genetic technologies, including an early adoption of single cell multi-omic analysis, genome engineering and stem cell technology, the generation of novel transgenic mouse strains and the strategic exploitation of camelid-derived single domain antibody fragments (nanobodies) as exquisite tools for diagnostic and therapeutic applications in various immunology-related diseases.
The Myeloid Cell Immunology team of the BCIM Research Group studies the ontogeny, molecular regulation, function, and diagnostic or therapeutic targeting of different immunoregulatory cell populations (with a focus on macrophages and regulatory T cells) in tumors and in the liver (steady state or disease conditions).
