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Louvain

American  
[loo-van] / luˈvɛ̃ /

noun

  1. a city in central Belgium.


Louvain British  
/ luvɛ̃ /

noun

  1. Flemish name: Leuven.  a town in central Belgium, in Flemish Brabant province: capital of the duchy of Brabant (11th–15th centuries) and centre of the cloth trade; university (1426). Pop: 89 777 (2004 est)

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The research was conducted as part of the TropSEDs project led by ETH Zurich and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Louvain in Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From Science Daily

New research might offer clues for treating chronic itch conditions, suggests Roberta Gualdani, a neuroscientist at the University of Louvain in Brussels, who helped lead the findings and is presenting them this month at an annual meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Francisco.

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In 2025, researchers at the University of Louvain and Imperial College London clarified how this harmful chain reaction might be counteracted.

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"This shows how nutrition and our gut microbes can work together by producing molecules that fight inflammation and improve metabolic health!" said Prof. Patrice Cani, co-senior author, University of Louvain, Belgium and visiting professor at Imperial College London.

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"What we eat shapes our microbes and some of their molecules can protect us from diabetes. That's nutrition in action!" said University of Louvain, Prof. Cani.

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