Prerequisites
- High level (3rd or 4th year) undergraduate student
- Minimum GPA 3.4
- Experience with chemical synthesis required.
Important note:
Students must remain registered as an undergraduate student at their U.S. or Canadian home institution while participating in the program. The student's home institution must complete the Learning Agreement after acceptance into a project, even if credits will not be transferred to that institution. Transfer of credits is decided by the students' home institution.
Submitting an application, does not guarantee that the student will be offered a placement. The research projects are also available to our domestic degree students; therefore, projects may already be full at the time of applying. Final decision on your admission is solely taken by the Research Supervisor at the host institution.
Faculty Department
Faculty of Medicine / Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
The department combines expertises in techniques of bio-organic chemistry, biochemistry, electrophysiology, molecular biology, cell imaging, proteomics, bio-informatics and animal model development to aquire new insigts into cellular signaling and communication processes. An additional aim is to decipher the molecular basis for human signal-transduction related diseases and to identify novel therapeutic targets. The department consists of 18 research groups, maintaining close contacts with other departments of the KU Leuven and with the University Hospital. The laboratory of chemical biology specializes in the design and synthesis of chemical probes to covalently label proteins of interests in cells and cell lysates.
