Research at UCLouvain in key figures
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May 11, 2022
Blocking spike captors to counter Covid
It’s a very promising world first! Scientists at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) have managed to identify the key that allows...
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November 08, 2019
UCLouvain makes the heart of Mars speak
Exploring the heart (core) of Mars will elucidate the red planet’s evolution and thus determine whether life would be possible in the future....
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July 01, 2020
VIVES III: a new European inter-university fund of €32M...
The UCLouvain created, through its technology transfer office Sopartec, a new European university fund of €32m, VIVES...
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November 18, 2019
UCLouvain connects our smartphones to the Internet
1 in 8 smartphones in the world uses a UCLouvain technology. It combines separate Internet access networks, fixed and mobile, to allow a...
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October 22, 2019
Put human values at the center of the enterprise
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In order to highlight LSM's motto « excellence and ethics in business », the faculty and its main two research institutes are...
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June 20, 2019
Science and Technology: an overview
Learn about the topics, projects and research equipment of scientists in the UCLouvain Science and Technology Sector
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June 20, 2019
UCLouvain in top 15% of universities worldwide
UCLouvain is ranked 167th in the 2019-20 edition of the QS ranking, and is the best French-speaking Belgian university. The ranking’s main...
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June 22, 2020
Click… Resistant bacteria caught in the act !
As humanity fights against the coronavirus, the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria continues. Scientists at UCLouvain...
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January 23, 2020
Preventing metastasis by stopping cancer cells from...
Olivier Feron, a UCLouvain researcher, studies how cancer spreads through the body via metastasis. His major discovery was that cancer cells...
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