2020
Europe’s project RESCEU sheds new light on the fight against the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and its economic impact
2020
Big achievements in the RECOVER project: on April 22nd the first patient was enrolled in the “Household transmission study” – part of the RECOVER project- aimed at investigating the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection within households,
2020
Antwerp, Belgium – 11 March, 2020
The University of Antwerp has launched Rapid European COVID-19 Emergency Research response (RECOVER), in collaboration with 9 international partners.
2020
Antwerp, Belgium – 3 March 2020
The EU-funded Platform foR European Preparedness Against (Re-) emerging Epidemics (PREPARE) has decided to upgrade its response efforts to the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic to Outbreak Research Response Mode 3,
2020
Antwerp, Belgium – 24 February 2020
Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infected patients have been reported in Europe for several weeks now and PREPARE has been monitoring developments very closely.
2020
Antwerp, Belgium – 6 February 2020
On 30th January 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of 2019-nCoV a public health emergency of international concern.
2019
Antwerp (Belgium), London (UK), Marcy l’Etoile (France) – April 1, 2019
The University of Antwerp, bioMérieux and Wellcome Trust today announced the launch of VALUE-Dx, the first Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) project initiated by six in vitrodiagnostic companies who join forces with 20 non-industry partners to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and improve patient outcomes.