We like to welcome you to the website of  LATRON,
the Laboratory for Thrombosis Research
at the Interdisciplinary Research Facility Life Sciences
of the Kulak, KU Leuven Campus Kortrijk

Our main lines of research are

1.  Understanding the role of platelets in the process of thrombosis and haemostasis
2.  Understanding the mechanism of von Willebrand factor dependent  platelet adhesion to damaged blood vessels
3.  Understanding the regulation of the von Willebrand factor size by ADAMTS13
4.  Development of compounds that interfere with the collagen – von Willebrand factor –platelet GPIb axis, as new antithrombotic drugs with better safety characteristics
5.  Development of gene therapy approaches for von Willebrand’s disease
6.  Development of a platelet functional genomics approach

We hope you find our site useful and instructive.
If you have any suggestions, requests or questions,
you can contact us at:

E.Sabbelaan 53 8500 Kortrijk Belgium
Tel:0032/56246422 Fax:0032/56246997

Hans.Deckmyn@kuleuven-kulak.be
Karen.Vanhoorelbeke@kuleuven-kulak.be
Simon.Demeyer@kuleuven-kulak.be

Sincerely
LaTrOn

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NEWS

       Simon De Meyer received the prestigious Belgian
       Galenus Prize for Pharmacology 2011  
       for his research on stroke

      

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