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Laureates of the Charcot Funds

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Jury of the Charcot Fund 2025

for the Belgian Charcot Foundation

Prof. Dr. Christian Sindic (President), Professor Emeritus of UCLouvain

for the scientific committee of the Belgian Charcot Foundation

Dr Pierrette Seeldrayers, Neurologist.
Prof. Dr. Alain Maertens de Noordhout, Head of Department of Neurology, CHR Citadelle, Liège.
Prof. Dr Alex Michotte, Head of Department of Neurology, UZ Brussels.

invited experts

Prof. Dr Gilles Edan, Emeritus Professor of Neurology, CHU Pontchaillou, Rennes
Dr. Sarah Laurent, Neurologist and MS Expert, CHU St Pierre, Brussels

Charcot Fund 2025 : € 323.822 For multiple sclerosis fundamental research

Grant

€50,000 / 2 years

Prof. Bieke Broux and Prof. Inge Mertens

The project

Regional mapping of harmful MHC-TCR epitopes in MS brain
UHasselt & VITO
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Grant

€29,250 / 1 year

Prof. Nathalie Cools and Dr. Mats Van Delen

The project

Deciphering Antigen-Specific Mitochondrial Transfer by Extracellular Vesicles
UAntwerpen
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Grant

€41,000 / 1 year

Prof. Bénédicte Dubois, Prof. Graciela Andrei, and Dr. Dries De Wit

The project

Exosomal miRNAs and the Epstein-Barr virus: a remote control mechanism in MS?
KULeuven
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Grant

€46,872 / 2 years

Prof. Pietro Maggi

The project

Characterizing the effect of disease modifying treatments on chronic active MRI lesions
UCLouvain
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Grant

€33,000 / 2 years

Prof. Jennifer Vandooren

The project

Mapping proteolytic changes in myelin-challenged macrophages
KULeuven
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Grant

€39,700 / 2 years

Prof. Jeroen Bogie and Prof. Werend Boesmans

The project

miRNA146a in control of the regenerative features of foamy phagocytes in multiple sclerosis
UHasselt
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Grant

€49,500 / 2 years

Dr. Sanne Verberk, Prof. Jerome Hendriks, and Prof. Gijs Kooij

The project

Targeting elongation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) to promote CNS repair in MS
UHasselt & Amsterdam UMC
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Grant

€34,500 / 2 years

Prof. Tim Vanmierlo, Prof. Antonio Luchicchi, and Dr. Melissa Schepers

The project

Unlocking Human Remyelination: iPSC-OPC Injections into Human Brain Slices as an Innovative Remyelination Model
UHasselt & Amsterdam UMC
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