Dr. Aude Beyens successfully defended her PhD
21 March 2025 – Ghent, Belgium
Dr. Aude Beyens has successfully defended her PhD in Health Sciences with the title: “Study of monogenic
cutis laxa syndromes: paradigms for elastic fiber homeostasis”.
Belgian Society for Human Genetics (BeSHG) Meeting 2025
13-14 March 2025 – Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Lisa Hamerlinck presented at the BeSHG meeting on “Non-coding structural variants disrupt FOXG1 regulation during early neurodevelopment.” She won the second-best presentation award. The preprint of this article can be found here.
PhD students Maxim Verlee, Michiel Vanhooydonck, and Eva Vanbelleghem presented a poster.
Prof. Callewaert received the AstraZeneca Scientific Award
12 December 2024 – Brussels, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Bert Callewaert has been awarded the prestigious AstraZeneca Award for his research on rare congenital disorders of the elastic fibers, such as cutis laxa and profibrotic diseases such as Myhre syndrome. Watch the video about his research here.
Symposium Nephrogenetics: a cornerstone to optimize clinical care
12 October 2024 – Ghent, Belgium
Multidisciplinary collaboration is key for rare diseases, both with regard to optimal patient care and innovative, international research. This symposium illustrates how Ghent University Hospital puts this collaboration into practice for rare kidney diseases.
World Congress on Rare Skin Diseases
12-14 June 2024 – Paris, France
Mini-symposium - "Genodermatosen: Multidisciplinariteit is de sleutel!"
9 December 2023 – Ghent, Belgium
A mini-symposium about dermatogenetics was organized by Ghent University Hospital for all interested healthcare professionals.
Cutis Laxa Days
13-16 September 2022 – Ghent, Belgium
We organized a hybrid international networking event at Ghent University (Hospital), Belgium in September 2022. We brought together affected individuals and their caregivers, physicians, paramedics, and researchers. A clinic day (Sept 14, 2022) allowed participation in research on disease mechanisms and clinical research. A conference day (Sept 15, 2022) provided a state-of-the-art on CL entities and interaction between stakeholders. A research day (Sept 16, 2022) gathered all stakeholders to coordinate and plan further research efforts. We expected this conference to provide a global patient-centered approach to advance awareness, care, and research in CL. More information can be found here.