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Best poster price for NARILIS PhD student Mélanie Planque at the symposium "Trends in Food Analysis VIII"

The chemist Mélanie Planque works as a PhD student at the Health Department of the CER Groupe in Marloie. Her doctoral research focuses on the detection of food allergens by mass spectrometry in processed foodstuffs, with the aim to improve food labelling. This work is running in partnership with Prof. Thierry Arnould (UNamur, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology) and Prof. Patsy Renard (UNamur Mass Spectrometry platform). The project is supported by the Walloon region (ALLERMASS project – FIRST DoCA program).

NARILIS PhD student Félicien Hespeels wins the Audience Award at the interuniversity final of "My thesis in 180 seconds"

Félicien Hespeels is a 3rd year PhD student at the Laboratory of Analysis by Nuclear Reaction of the UNamur (Prof. Stéphane Lucas). On the 23rd of May, he won the Audience Award at the interuniversity final of "My thesis in 180 seconds", with his brilliant talk « De l’or contre le cancer ». Thomas Abbate (UMons) et Alexis Darras (ULg) were awarded the price of the jury.

NARILIS - SCK●CEN radiobiology poster in the spotlight of the 6th symposium on Medical Radioisotopes

Naomi Daems is a PhD student working in the field of radiobiology and nanomedicine. The aim of her PhD thesis is to develop a cancer theranostics platform based on the use of gold nanoparticles as radiosensitizers in therapeutic as well as diagnostic cancer applications. Naomi’s work focuses on the evaluation of the in vitro cytotoxicity of these gold nanoparticles on healthy cell types, which is crucial prior to move to clinical testing.

NARILIS researchers at the closing evening of the Télévie on Saturday 22 April 2017!

Like every year, the UNamur supported the Télévie campaign! A check of 20.100 EUR was handed over on Saturday 22 April 2017, during the Télévie closing evening on RTL. Prof. Martine Raes, UNamur Vice-Rector for Research, and Prof. Carine Michiels, promoter of 4 Télévie projects at the Department of Biology, along with 8 PhD students supported by the Télévie, took part in this charity event!

Best scientific communication prize awarded to NARILIS PhD student Emilie Faway at the SFMM 2017 conference!

Emilie Faway is PhD student at the Cell and Tissue Laboratory of Prof. Catherine Lambert de Rouvroit and Prof. Yves Poumay (URPhyM, UNamur). She is in the final phase of her doctoral thesis, which aims at understanding the mechanisms used by dermatophytes to infect human epidermis.

NARILIS launches a Cancer Research Pole and presents its new X-ray irradiator

Since several years, multidisciplinary research projects have emerged from collaborations between the UNamur and the CHU UCL Namur in the field of cancer research. These joint efforts are now being reinforced with the launch of a Cancer Research Pole within NARILIS.

NARILIS PhD student Hélène Haguet wins the LEO Pharma Award "Cancer & Thrombosis"

Hélène Haguet's research focuses on the cardiovascular safety profile of new generation BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) administered to patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. This research project of the Namur Thrombosis & Hemostasis Center (NTHC) was initiated by Dr. Jonathan Douxfils. It involves both the Department of Pharmacy of the UNamur (Prof. Jean-Michel Dogné) and the Hematology Laboratory of the CHU UCL Namur (Prof. François Mullier).