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Two professors Jos Vander Sloten and Sabine Van Huffel were nominated Founding Fellow of the alliance called EAMBES, the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering and Science, during its symposium on March 13-14, 2012 at Brussels, Belgium.

They were elected member of this selective group of 35 european scientists based on their individual contribution to Biomedical Engineering especially in Europe and worldwide.

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(Picture by Frederik Questier (photographer) licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license)

By Alejandro Sifrim (ESAT/SCD/SISTA-BIOI group ; IBBT Future Health Department, KU Leuven)
Title: Computational annotation and interpretation of single nucleotide variation to identify disease-causing variants by next-generation sequencing

Website Belgian Society of Human Genetics
Read the abstract.
Nature Genetics Letter
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Read also the article from Artsenkrant (in Dutch)

http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/inaugurals2012/

We are pleased to invite you to attend the yearly ESAT Inaugural Lectures, given by some of the newly appointed professors. This event marks the beginning of their careers as lecturer at our university.

This year we like you to meet Prof. Paul Leroux, Prof. Jan Aerts and Prof. Dirk Van Hertem.

They will give you an overview of their academic careers and of their current and future research topics. It is a great opportunity to learn more about the state-of-the-art research that is currently happening at our department.

Participation is free of charge, but you are asked to register here.

Program

Location

Auditorium A
Departement Elektrotechniek (ESAT), Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001 Heverlee

Route description: http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/english/info/route

Ingrid Verbauwhede (ESAT-SCD-COSIC) was nominated by Prof. Em. Hugo De Man and elected as a new member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts, to the class of Technical Sciences. (February 16 2012)