Doctoral project Annelies Bontinck

Doctoral project Geert Van Pottelberge

Cellular and molecular mechanisms mediating the adverse respiratory effects of particulate air pollution: focus on the epithelium

Diesel and particulate matter as catalysators of allergen induced airway disease: investigation into the role of alarmins and the inflammasome.

Importance and interaction of allergy, infections and respiratory environmental exposures in chronic lower & upper airway diseases

Importance and interaction of allergy, infections and respiratory environmental exposures in chronic lower & upper airway diseases (AIReWAY II consortium)

Pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Role of cigarette smoke-induced macrophage reprogramming and the chemokine receptor-mediated adaptive immune response in an experimental COPD model

Purchase of equipment supporting the sterile housekeeping of mice in the Central Animalarium of the faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Randomised trial of resistance training in radically treated lung cancer patients

Research Equipment: BD LSRFortessa TM flowcytometer

Research into mechanisms of neutrophilic asthma.

RNA-MAGIC: RNA-based bioMArkers and tarGets In asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Role of damage associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) in initiation and persistence of chronic airway inflammation

Role of innate lymphoid cells in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Role of Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels in cigarette smoke-induced pulmonary inflammation and in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Diagnostic examinations of an autologous tumor-immune xenograft as a test platform for immunotherapeutic intervention with non-small cell lung cancer

Epidemiologic study of risk factors for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Gene-Environment iNteractions in the pathogenesis of Tobacco smoking-induced Lung diseases (GENT-Lung)

Interrelationship of pulmonary inflammation, systemic inflammation and airway remodelling in the pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Pathogenesis of lymphoid follicle formation and mucosal immunity in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Role of TGF-beta superfamily members BMP-6, GDF-15 and TGFbeta2 in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Translational research into the role of Damage Associated Molecular Patterns in the pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Translational research on the role of the Hedgehog pathway, ADAM19 and HTR4 in the pathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Understanding Heterogeneity of Eosinophils in Airway Disease

Unraveling the role of neutrophils in pollutant-aggravated asthma

ClinicalTrials.COV : Clinical long term-follow up of COVID-19 patients that underwent immuneintervention clinical trials or standard of care.