Bodine Van Eenooghe
Member of the research and assistant academic staff – Laboratory Bacteriology Research, Department of Diagnostic sciences (Faculty of Medicine and Health sciences, UGent)
Principal investigator: Prof. Piet Cools (PhD)
Research focus
HPV and cervical cancer
The ELEVATE consortium wants to empower women to screen for their cervical cancer risk in any setting while guaranteeing rapid and easy-to-understand results. To that end, the project will identify hard-to-reach women and design a screening strategy to access them. This strategy includes the development of a user-friendly, low-cost, portable self-sampling screening tool which will be able to detect 14 high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) types and 2 proteomic cervical cancer biomarkers.
The simultaneous detection of HPV DNA with the proteomic marker will allow for more accurate detection of HPV infections associated with cervical cancer progression. Therefore more relevant patients can be detected and treated, thereby drastically reducing the cancer burden in these populations. An intervention during which the self-testing device will be piloted in hard-to-reach communities in Belgium, Portugal, Ecuador and Brazil will provide information about the acceptability and cost-effectiveness of the tool.
Laboratory Bacteriology Research is involved in Elevate in the co-development of the DNA part of the tool and the clinical evaluation.
Contact & links
- Lab address: Department Diagnostic Sciences, Medical Research Building-II, entrance 38, Campus UZ Gent, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Ghent
- ELEVATE, HPV project
- International Centre for Reproductive Health Belgium
- Bodine Van Eenooghe is interested to receive invitations for presentations or talks