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Researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) have achieved an important breakthrough in the fight against multiple myeloma, an aggressive form of blood cancer.

Anyone who surveys the career of Professor Emerita Brigitte Velkeniers sees an exceptional trajectory in medicine, but above all a consistent vision: medicine is science, care, and humanity at the same time.

VUB research compares language technology with classical biomedical methods How do small changes in our DNA influence how our bodies function? That is the central question in the PhD research of Konstantina Tzavella at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Within the interdisciplinary TumorScope project and the VUB/ULB (IB)² Interuniversity Institute of Brussels, she explored how artificial intelligence (AI) can help predict which genetic mutations contribute to diseases such

VUB researchers call for greater focus on early detection and prevention Every year, around 1,500 people in Belgium are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The disease is increasingly affecting younger patients and is usually discovered only in an advanced stage. As part of World Pancreatic Cancer Month, researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and doctors from UZ Brussel are urgently calling for greater attention to early detection and prevention. “Pancreatic canc