News for p3
December 06, 2017
Digital technology serving humanity
The Louvain Foundation’s end-of-year fundraising campaign, launched on 5 December, supports cancer research. The COALESCENS project proposal, submitted by Professor Daniele Catanzaro (LSM-CORE), was chosen by the foundation’s scientific committee. The project is vital to developing personalised...
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December 04, 2017
ERC Consolidator: two grants for UCL
Alexandru Vlad (IMCN) and Guido Bommer (de Duve Institute) were each awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million over five years in support of their research.
The European Research Council offers a range of funding mechanisms including the Consolidator Grant, a very prestigious programme...
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November 14, 2017
A Nobel Peace Prize laureate in Louvain-la-Neuve
Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, will be in Louvain-la-Neuve on 17-19 November. She will facilitate the second PeaceJam Belgium conference. An inaugural academic session open to all will take place on Friday 17 November at 4:00 pm.
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November 10, 2017
Why the tumours resist to immunotherapy
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 patients, leaving a large majority that didn’t respond. Explaining why and increasing immunotherapy’s efficiency were the research...
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October 12, 2017
Nicolas Maigret, 2017-18 artist in residence
The UCL artist in residence for the 2017-18 Louvain Year of Digital Worlds is Nicolas Maigret, a French digital artist who for 15 years has developed an experimental electronic sound and imaging technique.
Mr Maigret is interested in digital devices: artificial intelligence, algorithms,...
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