Three ULiège projects selected for Welbio Investigator Program funding
As part of the Welbio Investigator Program call for projects, two FARAH projects and one GIGA project were selected for funding at the Université de Liège.
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Wallonia and the European ERDF funds are investing more than 2 million euros in MS-QUANTA, a platform dedicated to the validation of new biomarkers.
Wallonia and the European FEDER funds are investing more than two million euros in the MS-QUANTA platform, a collaborative research structure aimed at improving the biomarker development chain in Wallonia. MS-QUANTA is based on two platforms of advanced scientific equipment perfectly complementary to the University of Mons (BioProfiling UMONS/ ULB) and the University of Liège (GIGA, ULiège). The structure meets the international requirements for the validation of biomarker candidates (molecular signatures, multiplexes), a priority research area supported by the European Commission.
MS-QUANTA will strengthen the analytical capacity of all academic and industrial health stakeholders in Wallonia, enabling them to benefit from recent technological developments in the field of biomarker validation. The analytical platform will also be useful for other fast-growing scientific and economic sectors, in particular the agri-food (food safety), environment and industrial microbiology sectors. The provision of this unique structure in Belgium allows the Walloon actors concerned to position themselves advantageously in a field strongly supported by the European Horizon 2020 research and major equipment programme.
The original concept of "Labhotel" within MS-QUANTA will facilitate the provision of scientific equipment and skills to academic actors and companies, subject to prior reservation and training, on both sides of Wallonia in two regions bringing together the majority of the stakeholders in the biomedical and biotechnology sectors.
Within MS-QUANTA, ULiège's role will focus more specifically on proteomics guided by mass spectrometry imaging, a high-performance instrument for identifying and quantifying biomarkers. For their part, UMONS teams will develop liquid chromatography approaches essential for targeting proteins that are weakly present in the matrices analysed. A quality assurance system common to both sites of the platform will ensure the reliability of analytical methods.
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As part of the Welbio Investigator Program call for projects, two FARAH projects and one GIGA project were selected for funding at the Université de Liège.
A "Sit-in liège students in solidarity for Palestine" is currently taking place at the University of Liège, on the Place du 20 août campus.
The seven partners of the Université de la Grande Région met at the Château de Colonster (ULiege campus) to take stock of current collaborations and outline the future of the consortium.