de Duve Institute

Founded by Nobel laureate Christian de Duve, the de Duve Institute is a multidisciplinary biomedical research institute bringing together more than 250 researchers and technicians from close to 40 countries on the UCLouvain campus in Brussels, who strive to better understand diseases in order to better cure them.

To achieve this goal, research at the Institute is based on three principles: priority to basic research and to the freedom of the investigators, focus on medical benefits resulting from basic discoveries, special attention to collaborative and interdisciplinary research. 

Current research at the Institute helps to improve the diagnosis and treatment of:
- Cancers, in particular with immunotherapy;
- Viral and bacterial infections, with research on the development of new antibiotics;
- Acquired (diabetes) and hereditary metabolic diseases;
- Diseases related to immunity disorders;
- Developmental disorders of the vascular (angioma) and skeletal (cleft lip) systems.