ULiège participates in 16 EOS research projects

The EOS projects (Excellence of Science), which have a budget of 121 million Euros spread over a period of four years, aim to give a boost to basic research in our country by promoting collaborative projects between researchers from the north and south of the country. The University of Liège is participating in 16 of these projects, including three as coordinator.

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fter the success of the first call in 2016 , some 278 dossiers were sent to the FNRS and its Flemish counterpart the FWO, following the second call launched in 2020. These were proposals for projects of a very high scientific level that aim to develop synergies between researchers from the north and south of the country. For this second edition, 37 projects were selected from among the many applications. Most of the projects were in the fields of medical sciences and science and technology. Twenty-nine researchers from ULiège will participate in these projects of excellence.

The EOS projects at ULiège

• Understanding and tackling the spatio-temporal changes of the metastatic lymph node epicenter
  Coordinator : Agnès NOEL (GIGA Cancer)
  Participant : Frédéric KRIDELKA (Clinical Science)
  
  
• Central African Network of Observatories of troPIcal tree and forest functioning
  Coordinator : Adeline FAYOLLE (TERRA) 
  Participants: Jean-François BASTIN
• A Connected History of Medieval Mediterranean Diplomacy: The Mamluk Sultanate, Italy, and the Crown of Aragon (14th-15th century)
  Coordinator :  Frédéric BAUDEN (Transitions)
  
  
• Taking IBD Genes from GWAS to Function to Drug Targe
  Participants : Michel GEORGES and Souad RAHMOUNI (GIGA Animal Genomics)
  
  
• Host-microbe interaction in intestinal homeostasis: unravelling the mechanisms involved in the onset of multiple inflammation-related diseases
  Participants : Alain CHARIOT (GIGA Stem Cells) and Édouard LOUIS (GIGA I3)
  
  
• Endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria: common drivers of human β cell and neuronal fate
  Participant: Laurent NGUYEN (GIGA Stem Cells)
  
  
• Agriculture, diet and nutrition in Greco-Roman Egypt. Reassessing ancient sustenance, food processing and (mal)nutrition.
  Participant:  Marie-Louise SCIPPO (FARAH)

• Keeping the best of weak bonds by tethering: a multi-scale, multi-technique approach to polymeric materials with controlled and predictable mechanical properties.
  Participants : Anne-Sophie DUWEZ and Françoise REMACLE (MolSys)

• CaloritrOnics iN magNEtiC Weyl semimeTals
  Participants: Bertrand DUPÉ, Alejandro SILHANEK and Matthieu VERSTRAETE (CESAM)

• An integrated approach to unravel eosinophil function in chronic eosinophilic disorders
  Participants : Fabrice BUREAU, Christophe DESMET and Renaud LOUIS (GIGA I3)
  

• Tricking tumor immunosuppression: RNA epigenetics as novel target to improve cancer immunotherapy
  Participant : Pierre CLOSE (GIGA Cancer)

• Prepared for SARS-CoV-3: advancing our understanding of SARS coronavirus antigenic and pathogenic evolution
  Participant : Laurent GILLET (FARAH)

• Shapeable 2D magnetoelectronics by design
  Participant : Éric BOUSQUET (CESAM)
  

• Understanding joint health: biomechanical and mechanobiological characterization of the bone-cartilage interface
  Participant : Davide RUFFONI (A&M)

• Cell Death Regulation and Role in Infection and Inflammatory Diseases
  Participants : Wouter COPPIETERS (GIGA Genomics), Emmanuel DEJARDIN and Michel MOUTSCHEN (GIGA I3)
  
  
• Creating highly entangled quantum states in the NISQ era
  Participants : Thierry BASTIN, John MARTIN and Peter SCHLAGHECK (CESAM)
  

See the complete list of EOS projects