Centre for Biomedical Research

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Staff

• Prof. Dr. ir. Stefan Magez
• Prof. Dr. Magdalena Radwanska
• Dr. Robin Becina Guevarra
• Phil Moon
• Hang Thi Thu Nguyen
• Hien Thi Thu Pham
• Seoyeon Oh

Research

The mission of the Biomedical Research Center is to understand the fundamental immunological principles that govern host-pathogen interactions. This approach is expected to yield new therapeutic and diagnostic approaches as well as vaccine strategies against infectious diseases.

The focus of our research aims at:

• Investigating the mechanisms underlying destruction of an immunological memory
• Identifying new vaccine candidates
• Establishing a compound screening platform aiming at adjuvant activity identification
• Setting up a Nanobody screening and production platform for the development of new diagnostic tools

Our investigations comprise parasitic and bacterial models using state-of-the-art technologies including scRNA-seq, NGS for genome analysis, flowcytometry/FACS and fluorescent microscopy, recombinant protein expression and FPLC purification.