Press releases
UCLouvain press releases
July 06, 2023
A first for UCLouvain in the fight against organ...
Press realease - UCLouvain research
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In Belgium, 40% of people waiting for a transplant are unable to find an organ and therefore have to wait, which...
February 17, 2023
Brussels housing architecture under the microscope
Press release - UCLouvain LOCI+LAB monograph
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Gérald Ledent and Alessandro Porotto (UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture LOCI+LAB*) publish the first...
August 16, 2022
Discovery of a genetic factor that quadruples the risk...
Press release - UCLouvain Brussels research
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects over 10% of the world’s population, including over one million...
May 10, 2022
Blocking spike captors to counter Covid
UCLouvain Research
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It’s a very promising world first! Scientists at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) have managed to identify the key that...
March 15, 2022
To prevent human breast cancer recurrence and metastasis
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Scientists at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) have succeeded in preventing the recurrence and spreading of a human breast cancer in mice, in...
January 24, 2022
UCLouvain team discovers link between sugar metabolism...
Press release - Research UCLouvain
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Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, but we still do not understand why this...
July 29, 2021
The soft spaghetti of proteins
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University of Louvain (UCLouvain) scientists have identified destructured segments, still unexplored to date, in proteins necessary for the life...
June 11, 2021
An Omega-3 that’s poison for tumours
Press release - UCLouvain research
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3D tumours that disintegrate within a few days thanks to the action of a well-known Omega-3 (DHA, found mainly in...
June 09, 2021
A new bacteria, made in Belgium (and UCLouvain)
Press release - UCLouvain research
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A research team from University of Louvain (UCLouvain) has discovered a new bacterium in the human...
April 21, 2021
UCLouvain recognised for its transition policy
Press release - UCLouvain Sustainability Transition
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UCLouvain ranks between 101st and 200th out of the 1,115 participating universities...
April 02, 2021
Mapping policy for how the EU can reduce its impact on...
Press release - Research UCLouvain
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EU imports of products contribute significantly to deforestation in other parts of the world.
In a new study,...
March 18, 2021
Parental burnout hits individualist Western countries...
Press release - UCLouvain international research
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It’s a first: approximately 100 scientists in 42 countries joined forces to learn about...
October 06, 2020
Targeting our second brain to fight diabetes
Press release - UCLouvain research
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Patrice Cani (UCLouvain) and Claude Knauf (INSERM) have discovered a ‘jammer’ that blocks...
September 11, 2020
New immunotherapy to beat cancer
Press release - UCLouvain Research
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Sophie Lucas (UCLouvain de Duve Institute) and her team succeeded in neutralising a molecule that...
July 16, 2020
Covid-19 vs measles: 120 million children at risk
Press release - UCLouvain research
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According to UCLouvain research conducted in collaboration with WHO, Stanford University, and Harvard...
July 09, 2020
Circle U. joins ‘European Universities’ initiative
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Circle U., the alliance of UCLouvain, Aarhus University, the University of Belgrade, Humboldt University of Berlin,...
July 01, 2020
VIVES III: a new European inter-university fund of €32M...
Press release
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The UCLouvain created, through its technology transfer office Sopartec, a new European university fund of €32m,...
June 22, 2020
Click… Resistant bacteria caught in the act !
Press release - UCLouvain research
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As humanity fights against the coronavirus, the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria continues...
June 22, 2020
When planting trees threatens the forest
Press release - UCLouvain research
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The first-of-its-kind study by UCLouvain and Stanford researchers reveals that subsidies for the...
June 08, 2020
University of Louvain and European Space Agency join...
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ESA releases €1 million to couple ESA space technologies to UCLouvain's B-LIFE mobile screening...
May 13, 2020
"Velcro" on cancer cells
Press release - UCLouvain research
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To form metastases, cancer cells must be able to migrate. But cancer cells are...
April 30, 2020
Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur
Press release
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On 1 May UCLouvain Professor Olivier De Schutter becomes United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human...
January 23, 2020
Preventing metastasis by stopping cancer cells from...
Press release - UCLouvain research
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Olivier Feron, a UCLouvain researcher, studies how cancer spreads through the body via...
December 16, 2019
Immunotherapy: a promising alternative
Press release - UCLouvain research
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Since 2004, Sophie Lucas, a researcher at the UCLouvain de Duve Institute, has been...
November 18, 2019
UCLouvain connects our smartphones to the Internet
Press release - UCLouvain Research
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1 in 8 smartphones in the world uses a UCLouvain technology
It combines separate Internet access networks,...
November 06, 2019
132 grams to communicate with Mars
Press release - UCLouvain research
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On behalf of the ESA, UCLouvain has developed antennas for the LaRa instrument that will go to Mars in 2020 to...
November 06, 2019
UCLouvain makes the heart of Mars speak
Press release - UCLouvain research
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Exploring the heart (core) of Mars will elucidate the red planet’s evolution and thus determine whether life...
September 04, 2019
A stopover in LLN? The Mozaïk Lodge opens its doors
Press release - UCLouvain regional development
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A 124-bed lodge has opened in LLN, a partnership between UCLouvain, the city of...
August 08, 2019
UCLouvain researchers eye Alaska thaw
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32°C. This summer saw the highest temperature ever recorded in southern Alaska. What are the consequences for the environment and ice...
July 23, 2019
Anonymising personal data is not enough to protect privacy
Press release - Research University of Louvain and Imperial College London
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Current methods for anonymising data leave individuals at risk of...
July 17, 2019
A new material for the battery of the future
Press release
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The challenge of renewable energy? The storage of green energy, i.e., being able to store energy when it’s produced while using it...
July 03, 2019
Paediatric cancers: towards more targeted therapy
Press release - UCLouvain Research
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Chemotherapy attacks cancer cells but also healthy cells. In children, it often causes irreversible damage that...
July 01, 2019
A bacteria likely to reduce the cardiovascular risks of...
Press release - University of Louvain research in world premiere
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Patrice Cani, professor at UCLouvain, and his team conducted the first pilot study...
June 20, 2019
UCLouvain in top 15% of universities worldwide
Press release : UCLouvain recognition
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UCLouvain is ranked 167th in the 2019-20 edition of the QS ranking, and is the best French-speaking Belgian...
May 13, 2019
#WeChangeForLife
Press release inter-university1
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WeChangeForLife: 256 researchers, specialists in issues related to environmental degradation, have changed their...
January 28, 2019
“Stop, do not eat fat anymore!”
Press Release – UCLouvain Research Obesity
During fat ingestion, if everything works in our body, an enzyme from the intestine transmits to the brain (through the...
December 06, 2018
Half a million for cardiovascular anomalies research
The first Generet Award, which was launched this year, has gone to Professor Miikka Vikkula (de Duve Institute – UCLouvain) for his research seeking a genetic explanation for vascular...
November 23, 2018
Spending Christmas in Antarctica
Press release
On 1 December, a team of glaciologists and climate researchers from ULB, UCLouvain and...
November 13, 2018
Six universities join forces to form a new leading...
Press release
Creating a European university alliance that places academic innovation as well as the links between research and teaching at the heart of its project, is the ambition of...
October 25, 2018
Double discovery in immunotherapy
RESEARCH - PRESS RELEASE
Belgian research groups from the UCLouvain and WELBIO, VIB and Ghent University, and the biotechnology company argenx elucidated the three-dimensional structure of an...
May 14, 2018
UCL discovers a bacterial shield against the immune system
UCL Research - press release
A major discovery at UCL in the fight against bacterial infections: Jean-François Collet and his team have discovered a new protein, CnoX, which plays a...
April 27, 2018
University of Louvain and Wageningen University launch...
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A-Mansia is the latest co-spin-off from the University of Louvain (UCL) and Wageningen University. It aims to develop Akkermansia-based products. Three years from now, a...
February 14, 2018
Bacteria = problem but also the solution
UCL Research – press release
Johann Mignolet, post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of the professor Pascal Hols, did a major breakthrough on bacterial behavior during his researches at...
January 24, 2018
Unique agreement between UCL and NATO
UCL education - press release
On 23 January 2018 UCL and NATO headquarters in Brussels signed a cooperation agreement in the field of translation. The objective is to facilitate the entry into...
December 19, 2017
New UCL discovery in the fight against...
Research UCL - press release
Researchers at the UCLouvain have made a major new discovery in the research on bacteria. Jean-François Collet, professor at UCL's de Duve Institute, and his team...
December 11, 2017
UCL indexes natural disasters
Research UCL – 10 December, International Climate Day - press release
2017: fewer disasters but more cost damages, reports researchers of University of Louvain (UCL)
EMDAT is an...
December 11, 2017
2018 UCL honorary doctorate recipients
2018 UCL honorary doctorate recipients - press release
On 5-6 February 2018, UCL will award honorary doctorates to three individuals: edX CEO Anant Agarwal, Mozilla Foundation President...
December 07, 2017
Syria : rise of air bombardments fatal for children
UCL Research - press release
In 2016, one in four civilians killed in the Syrian conflict was a child. A team of researchers at the UCL Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of...
December 04, 2017
UCL tests new molecule to prevent cancer metastasis in mice
UCL research - press release
Three years ago, Pierre Sonveaux, a researcher at the UCL Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, and his team discovered that when the mitochondria (the...
November 10, 2017
Why the tumours resist to immunotherapy
UCL research – Press release
While immunotherapy generated undreamt-of results in the treatment of aggressive and advanced metastatic cancer, they occurred in only one-fourth to one-third of...
October 12, 2017
Top secret! Decrypting the world
Press release
Imagine a society without secrets. A kind of space-time where everything and everyone would be known. Possible? Desirable? The exhibition...
September 19, 2017
UCL launches a unique programme for refugees
UCL education - press release
This year, UCL is offering a preparatory programme for refugees that is unique in the French Community of Belgium. The programme includes French language...
June 21, 2017
Opening of University of Louvain Musée L
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Musée L, the University of Louvain Museum, where dialogue between scientific collections and art elicits new emotions
University of Louvain’s new museum, the Musée L,...
April 14, 2017
Anti-liberal Muslims face discrimination
Press release
At the heart of the debate over Islamophobia, many claim the right to criticise fully the ideas and norms of other ethnic and religious groups (here Muslims) on the basis that it...
March 30, 2017
Mission to Mars 2017: UCL Crew 178 en route to Mars via...
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Mission to Mars 2017: UCL Crew 178 en route to Mars via the Utah desert
Mission to Mars Crew 178 is composed of seven UCL students and mentored by Frank De...
March 30, 2017
ScienceToday: UCL research for a worldwide audience
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ScienceToday: UCL research for a worldwide audience
Cutting-edge science for a mainstream audience: that’s what ScienceToday, UCL’s new website, aims to deliver. ScienceToday...
March 16, 2017
Unique in French-speaking Belgium: UCL master’s degree...
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Unique in French-speaking Belgium: UCL master’s degree in sign language interpretation
Beginning in September 2017, UCL will be the only Belgian francophone university...
March 14, 2017
10 years of the ERC + 30 grants for UCL = €39 million
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10 years of the ERC + 30 grants for UCL = €39 million
On 21 March, the European Research Council (ERC) celebrates its tenth anniversary. UCL can celebrate, too, because its...
November 28, 2016
A protein capable of preventing diabetes
Press release
University of Louvain discovers a protein capable of preventing diabetes and obesity
Patrice Cani, a WELBIO researcher at the Louvain Drug Research Institute of the...