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UMONS Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technology

The HEALTH institute is a multidisciplinary institute of biologists, clinicians, pharmacists, chemists, physicists, engineers, psychologists and sociologists from the academic departments of UMONS whose research activities concern the health sector and, more specifically, focus on improving individual and public health. This objective is reinforced by the establishment of collaborations with various operators in this sector.

Taking care of people’s physical and mental health is crucial in today’s society. Longer life expectancy, access to care, human development and well-being are challenges that we have to confront and manage.

In this context, scientific and technological development in the field of health requires greater coordination between all those concerned, (i.e. physicians, pharmacists, psychologists, biologists, managers, etc.).

The aim of the Health Institute is to provide an scientists working in the field of health with an interface, in order for them to understand its complexity in a transdisciplinary way.

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Pr. Amandine NACHTERGAEL
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News from the institute

  • How does the influenza virus evade our immune defences? UMONS PhD research recognised in Münster
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    How does the influenza virus evade our immune defences? UMONS PhD research recognised in Münster

    30 September 2026
    How does the Influenza A virus manage to circumvent some of the defences deployed by our cells in response to infection? This is one of the key questions at the heart of the PhD research conducted by Théo Massart, a doctoral researcher in the UMONS Cell Biology Department, headed by Lionel Tafforeau. His initial work focuses more specifically on interactions between a viral protein and a cellular protein involved in regulating the antiviral immune response. Continue reading
  • Gene therapy: UMONS presents its expertise in Stockholm with the GT4Health consortium
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    Gene therapy: UMONS presents its expertise in Stockholm with the GT4Health consortium

    18 September 2026
    How can new technologies be developed to address the challenges of gene therapy? This is the objective of GT4Health, a consortium bringing together five Belgian universities and a research centre around 11 doctoral projects. In early September, Lionel Tafforeau, Head of the UMONS Cell Biology Department, represented the consortium in Stockholm during a mission organised by Wallonie-Bruxelles International on the occasion of the Nordic Life Science Days. Continue reading
  • Health, data and materials: UMONS mission to Białystok, Poland, opens up new avenues for research and collaboration
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    Health, data and materials: UMONS mission to Białystok, Poland, opens up new avenues for research and collaboration

    16 September 2026
    In early September, six UMONS researchers travelled to the Medical University of Białystok in Poland, an associate partner of the EUNICE Alliance. Organised within this framework, the visit provided an opportunity to identify several potential areas for collaboration in digital medicine, pharmacology, imaging, materials, and micro- and nanoplastics. These are very different fields, but they share a common objective: bringing together the resources available in Białystok and the expertise developed at UMONS to pave the way for new research projects and collaborations. Continue reading
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