Emilie Lommers receives a WEAVE (FNRS) grant for a translational brain imaging project aimed at advancing our understanding of multiple sclerosis.
Yasmine Belkaid, Director General of the Institut Pasteur in Paris and an internationally renowned immunologist, was awarded an honorary doctorate by ULiège on November 17, 2025.
Congratulations to all researchers obtaining a new FNRS mandate !
Join us at GIGA DAY 2025 on September 12th !
Invited speakers : Michael Heneka | Frederic Kerff | Valentin Fischer | Olivier Malaise | Jingjing Zhu
This symposium is open to all. Registration is free but compulsory.
An international team, coordinated by Athena Demertzi, has proposed a new scientific framework for understanding “mental emptiness”, an intriguing state of consciousness on the borders of attention, sleep and meditation.
Using ultra-high resolution MRI, the HISTOPARK project, led by Gilles Vandewalle and Pierre Maquet, aims to identify new biomarkers and better understand the early signs of Parkinson's disease.
The Coma Science Group proposes an integrative neuroscientific model to explain near-death experiences (NDEs). Based on neurophysiological and psychological data, it could improve patient care after a near-death experience.
Gilles Vandewalle's team (Sleep & Chronobiology Lab) has shown that the activity of the locus coeruleus, a tiny structure in the brain stem, regulates human sleep. A key advance for better understanding and treating sleep disorders.
Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine, pioneer of paleogenetics and Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Svante Pääbo was awarded an honorary doctorate by ULiège on December 17, 2024.
Christina Schmidt publishes a review in the prestigious Annual Review of Psychology.
The Coma Science Group at the University of Liège (GIGA) has just published the results of a clinical study on the use of apomorphine, a promising pharmacological treatment for the recovery of patients with disorders of consciousness after a coma.
