💡 🐹 How can studying hibernation in hamsters help us to fight against Alzheimer’s disease? Pablo Largo-Barrientos, a postdoc in the Verstreken Lab at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, explains in this blog post 👇 cbd.sites.vib.be/en#/news/hiber…

✨ Congratulations to all awardees, including two VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research-based recipients of the Alzheimer's Association (Alzheimer's Association) Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AARF-D)! Find out more 👇cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/news/…

🎯Excited to share that our #Twin4Promis young researcher Effie Karyda has joined the Switch Lab VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research for a 3-month STSM focusing on discovering new peptides to combat crystallin aggregation! 🔬 twin4promis.eu/twin4promis-sh…

"The EMA (in contrast to the FDA) has taken the view that the risk ... outweighs the clinical benefit." The European Medicines Agency has refused approval for #lecanemab, the first disease-modifying drug for #Alzheimer's disease. Our researchers react: ukdri.ac.uk/news-and-event…

🔊 The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has decided not to approve #Lecanemab for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Prof. Bart De Strooper (De Strooper Lab), Alzheimer's researcher at our Center and the UK Dementia Research Institute, responds ⤵ cbd.sites.vib.be/en#/news/comme…

On Friday we heard the news that the European Medicines Agency has refused approval of Alzheimer's drug lecenamab. The UK DRI's Prof Bart De Strooper discusses the decision on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme ⬇️ Listen from 25:47 🎧 buff.ly/3Wns2Yv

⏰ Just a few days left to submit abstracts for #BrainMosaic24 conference for the chance to win a poster prize by Nature Neuroscience! 🏆 Find out more and register ➡ vibbio.tech/3SqY9p5

🗺 Introducing Nova-ST, a new open-source platform for high-resolution spatial transcriptomics! ⚡ Developed in the Stein Aerts lab, Nova-ST will make large-scale, high-resolution spatial tissue analysis more accessible and affordable. Find out more ➡️ cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/news/…

🧠 Human brains are extraordinary, but did you know that brain cells that mature too fast are linked to neurodevelopmental disorders? Read all about it in the latest work by Pierre Vanderhaeghen, Vincent Bonin, and colleagues! (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research NERF) vibbio.tech/4dwesc7 #neuroscience

Latest from the lab: we uncover a link between disrupted human neuronal neoteny and SYNGAP1 mutations causal for ID/ASD. Amazing tour de force by Ben Vermaercke together with Iwata Ryohei, Keimpe Wierda , wonderful collaboration with Vincent Bonin. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 👇

💙For #WorldAlzheimerDay, our researchers will take part in the Leuven Night Run on September 21st to raise awareness about Alzheimer's Disease. Any donations raised will go to Stichting Alzheimer Onderzoek (SAO). Support, donate, and share ↘️ action.stopalzheimer.be/nl_NL/team/res…

🔭 Looking for your next career move in #neuroscience? The Lynette Lim Laboratory of Interneuron Developmental Dynamics (Lynette Lim) are searching for motivated PhDs, postdocs, and interns to join their growing team✨ youtube.com/watch?v=n6EPhV…

For our latest Colleague with a Story we chat with Artemis Koumoundourou, postdoctoral researcher in the Lab of Synapse Biology and Executive Director at TReND in Africa, a non-profit organization supporting scientific capacity-building across Africa 🚀↘️ blog.vib.be/building-scien…

⏰ Today is your last chance to register for #BrainMosaic24 with the early bird discount. Join a stellar line-up of #neuroscience researchers in beautiful Leuven, who will broaden your horizon and inspire you with their latest data and insights. Register here:

✨Don't miss your chance to join #Breinfestijn fundraising event for neuroscience in Leuven ✨tomorrow✨! A night of science, music, and comedy, organized by the Leuven Brain Institute (Leuven Brain Institute) 🎟️Tickets available online today or at the door➡️ tinyurl.com/breinfest

🌟🎉Very honoured to have been awarded an ERCStG from European Research Council (ERC) for my EmoDevo project, which I will be conducting at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research. Thanks to everyone who supported me throughout the process 🙏. Exciting times ahead 🤗! #ERCStG

🚀 Three VIB group leaders received a European Research Council (ERC), including our very own Esther Klingler! 🔬🧠Esther's grant will be used to study how genes and environment interact during amygdala circuit establishment. Read the whole story ➡ cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/news/…

Six #kuleuven researchers obtained an ERC Starting Grant. Congrats! #ERCStG 👏 Pieter Beullens Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte 👏 Esther Klingler VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research 👏 Pablo Marchant IvS - KU Leuven 👏 Colinda Scheele CCB_VIB_KUL Department of Oncology - KU Leuven 👏 Xin Shi KULeuvenChemie 👏 Cecilia Vergnano Sociale Wetenschappen - Social Sciences KU Leuven

🎉 Not one. Not two. But three VIB researchers have received an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. Congratulations Emanuela Pasciuto (VIB Center for Molecular Neurology, UAntwerpen), Colinda Scheele (CCB_VIB_KUL, KU Leuven), and Esther Klingler (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research)! #ERCStG vibbio.tech/4cIj0v9

🔬 T.G.I. #FluorescenceFriday! This 'fluffy pompom' is in fact an organoid, which postdoc Franck Maurinot has been growing in the Pierre Vanderhaeghen lab. Find out more at KU Leuven Stories ▶️ stories.kuleuven.be/en/stories/flu…. 📸: Franck & Nikky Corthout.