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Bart Ghesquière gave a lecture at the 14th International Congress of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (Sydney, Australia)

Together with Prof Swinnen, Bart Ghesquière gave a seminar on "Mass Spectrometry Imaging", during the webinar “Opening the Future - Spatial Multiomics Platform” - Read more

MEC received a FWO Large Equipment grant for a new mass spectrometer - honoured and proud!

Dries Verdegem gave a hands-on bio-informatics course on MEC toolset for metabolomics

Bart Ghesquière gave a Seminar on "Tracer Metabolomics"  at the VIB Medical Technology center, showing technological possibilities of the Metabolomics Expertise Center

Bart Ghesquière did the kick-off for the VIB training on metabolomics data interpretation in Leuven, together with Geert Goeminne.

Proud that our 'tracer-based diagnostic platform for anoxic kidney injury’ has been selected for the Fund for Translational Biomedical Research. For three years, the project will get an annual budget of 80keuro to study clinical applications of basic research findings.

How orbitrap helps VIB researchers expand the frontiers of science
Since its introduction in 2005, the Orbitrap mass spectrometer has quickly become a star in the research firmament. It has contributed to numerous significant breakthroughs in life sciences, especially in the fields of proteomics (the study of proteins and their functions) and metabolomics (the study of the intermediates and products of metabolism). First developed by the Russian physicist Alexander Makarov, a wide variety of Orbitrap mass spectrometers exist today, each with their own specifications. They all enable the quantification and profiling of small ionized particles using electrical fields. What makes Orbitrap such an important technology, and how does it help VIB researchers? We asked these questions to three researchers in separate VIB labs.
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