UMagazine Oct 2023_SPREAD.pdf
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… comes from personal experience. Under President Robert Mugabe’s regime in her native Zimbabwe, she witnessed human-rights violations up close. Protests were brutally suppressed, political opponents were tortured and international sanctions left shops empty. Later, as the daughter of a refugee in Belgium, she had to start over, learning a new language and integrating in a different culture. “When you come from an African country, you often encounter racism and sexism. I saw how my mother and … 2023 25 October 2023 / UMagazine “People have been crossbreeding crops for centuries. Introducing DNA from wild species is nothing new. Besides, the EU is rigorous about food safety. There’s absolutely no need to be afraid. I have no qualms about buying vegetables from the supermarket, even though I have my own vegetable garden,” he laughs. “Breeding techniques, like gene editing using CRISP-CAS, are developing rapidly. Products bred using those techniques are not currently available on the … Brain monitoring has been neglected in intensive-care medicine; we aim to change that. We’re already saving up for our next goal: hiring a postdoc.” Invitation to creativity A bequest gives researchers the freedom to be creative. Without the usual checklist of conditions and requirements, researchers have more freedom. “A research field like acute brain damage cries out for creativity. When it comes to intensive care, there’s been no major discovery in the past 25 years. This needs to change. We …