Joseph Lorent

Professeur

SSS/FASB -- Faculty of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

SSS/LDRI -- Louvain Drug Research Institute

Postmail address

LDRI
Avenue Mounier 73/B1.73.05
1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

joseph.lorent@uclouvain.be

LDRI

Phone

+32 2 436 10 21

Secretary Phone

+32 2 764 73 70

1998-2006            Master in Pharmacy (PharmD) 
                     Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels (Belgium) 

2006-2013            PhD in pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences 
                     Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels (Belgium) 

2014-2019            Postdoctoral researcher
                     UT Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth, Houston, Texas, USA) 

2019-2022            Researcher 
                     Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)

2022-present         Assistant Professor 
                     UCLouvain

Diploma

Year	Label	Educational Organization
2002	Candidat en sciences pharmaceutiques	Université catholique de Louvain
2006	Pharmacien	Université catholique de Louvain
2013	Doctorat	Université catholique de Louvain

Courses

Name	ID
Biophysics applied to the drugs	WFARM1219
Biochemistry and molecular biology	WFARM1221
Integrated Seminar in Pharmaceutical Sciences	WFARM1349
Pharmacologie moléculaire	WFARM2515
Pharmacology Part 1	WPHAR1300

2006-2013 PhD in pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences

Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology (FACM)/Analytical Chemistry and Pharmacology (CHAM),

Louvain Drug Research Institute (LDRI), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Brussels

Effects of amphiphilic peptides and saponins on membranes and pharmacological consequences

2014-2019 Postdoctoral Researcher

Levental laboratory, Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, UTHealth, Houston, Texas, USA

Transmembrane asymmetry of biological membranes
Protein partitioning into ordered lipid domains and physiological consequences
Revealing membrane properties by bioinformatics investigation of transmembrane proteins
Effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids on membranes and consequences for stem cell differentiation

2019-2022: Assistant professor

Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Main projects

Effect of cold atmospheric plasma on biological membranes
Interaction of oxidative stress with human and bacterial membranes, and homeostatic consequences

Collaborations

Self-cleaning surfaces for viral and bacterial inactivation (B. Weckhuysen, Eline Hutter)
Effects of antimicrobial peptides on membranes (E. Breukink, M. Weingarth)
Modulation of complement activity on membranes by nanobodies (P. Gros)
Bioinformatics determination of raft and viral protein properties (D. Yurtsever, C. Kesmir)
Determination of biophysical membrane properties in yeast cells lacking phosphatidylcholine (T. de Kroon)

2022-present: Assistant professor (tenure track)

Translational Research from Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology to Treatment Optimization (TFAR), Louvain Drug Research Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium

Main project

Investigating membrane biophysical properties of bacterial and mammalian cells to find new targets relevant to antibacterial and cancer therapy

Collaborations

Effect of cold atmospheric plasma on bacterial membranes (E. Breukink, A. Sonnen, A. Sobota Utrecht University, University Medical Center Utrecht, TU/e)

Orcid

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7537-8521