Background pattern of a brain with neural connections
Rik Gijsbers

Rik Gijsbers

Lead PI (Core Leadership)

KULeuven

Rik is professor in the Dept. of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, KULeuven University (Belgium). He studied bioscience engineering, and heads the Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy (LMVGT) in the ADVANTAGE group (ADVANced disease modelling, TArgeted drug discovery, and GEne Therapy). He heads the Leuven Viral Vector Core (LVVC), an academic viral vector core that provides scientists (academic, pharma, SME, …) with easy access to viral vector technology and model development.

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Viral vectors Disease models 3D human PD chip Brain-on-a-chip

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