GIGA 2021 Annual Report 17 May 21 A cross-border research center to better understand the microbiome Scientists from the Universities of Liège, Aachen, Maastricht and Venlo (UM campus) have just set up the Euregional Microbiome Center, a high-level research centre to better understand the viruses, bacteria, fungi and other microbes that live in our bodies. At the ULiège level the project is led by the BIO3 research group (GIGA/ Montefiore Institute - Kristel Van Steen), which works at the intersection of biostatistics, biomedicine and bioinformatics. March 21 Creation of CMD-Coat, a new spin-off from research conducted at the GIGA The company CMD-COAT S.A. was born from a collaboration between research centers of the University of Liege and the Cardiology Department of the University Hospital of Liege (CHU of Liege). It is the result of research by the team of Cécile Oury, FNRS research director, and Patrizio Lancellotti (director of the GIGA-Cardiovascular Research Unit) conducted in collaboration with the «Centre d’Étude et de Recherche sur les Macromolécules» (Department of Chemistry, ULiège). Thanks to this collaboration and to an ERC-Consolidator grant to Patrizio Lancellotti, the research team has developed an innovative bio- and hemo-compatible coating, which can be loaded with drugs, called Coatigel. May 21 Emilie Lommers, laureate of the Claire Fauconnier & Guy Sallets Fund Emilie Lommers, researcher at the GIGA-CRC in Vivo Imaging at the University of Liège and neurologist at the Liège University Hospital, is the laureate of the Claire Fauconnier and Guy Sallets Fund awarded by the King Baudouin Foundation. The prize of €50,000 will enable her to develop a medical imaging protocol to better reveal the various aspects of multiple sclerosis (MS) at the cerebral level.
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