Building on 30 years of research activities, IVTD actively engages in R&D activities and consultancy based on our expertise in in vitro experimental toxicology, stem cell technologies as well as safety and efficacy evaluation of cosmetic ingredients
LIVER CELLS: PRODUCTS
- In vitro models for drug induced liver injury
- In vitro models for liver diseases: NAFLD & NASH
- Hepatic differentiation technology
- Rat liver progenitor cell bank
LIVER CELLS: CONSULTANCY & EXPERTISE
- Stem cell and primary isolation, characterization and differentiation services
- Toxicological evaluations and hepatic functionality assays
- Connexin and pannexin signaling expertise
- Genotoxicant-specific qPCR array
DERMATO-COSMETICS
- Consultancy on the safety and efficacy of dermato-cosmetics
- Non-invasive biophysical skin measurements
- De-risking of genotoxic false positives
TECHNICAL SERVICES
- Flow cytometry
- Microscopy
- Genotoxicant-specific qPCR array
- Transcriptomics and metabolomics readouts and analysis
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IVTD’s research and expertise is valorized through the Brussels Liver Research to Valorisation Alliance (B-Liver), which integrates the complementary liver cell biology, pathology and toxicology expertise of Vrije Universiteit Brussels’ liver research groups of IVTD and LIVR.
B-Liver a VUB Industrial Research Fund (IOF) research group , employing a full time business developer Walter Van Der Eycken working in close collaboration with tech transfer services of VUB , which aims at the economic exploitation of knowledge production at universities and stimulation of university-industry linkages.