Team

Head of the Research Laboratory on Human Reproduction

Isabelle Demeestere, MD, PhD

Responsible for the oncofertility preservation program at Erasme Hospital and for the Research projects in the laboratory.

Contact : isabelle.demeestere@ulb.be


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Principal Investigator


Pascale Lybaert, DVM, PhD

Responsible for the fundamental and translational projects in male reproductive biology

Contact : pascale.lybaert@ulb.be

David Gall, PhD

Associate professor in biophysics. Principal Investigator on projects related to the role of ion channels on spermatogenesis and sperm capacitation (in collaboration with Prof. Pascale Lybaert)

Technicians 

Julie Dechene, BA

Research Activities : Labmanager, Responsible of clinical trials.

Contact: julie.dechene@ulb.be

Géraldine Van den Steen, BA

Research Activities :  Management of the Biobank and Responsible of experimental animals welfare.
Research Projects : Safety of cryopreserved ovarian tissue grafting in patients with high risk of tumoral dissemination.

Contact: geraldine.van.den.steen@ulb.be




 

Fabienne Leleux, BA

Research Activities : Reference technician for experimental techniques in projects on spermatogenesis

Contact: fabienne.leleux@ulb.be


 

Grégory Vegh, BA

Research Activities : Histology, Fluorescence spectroscopy

Contact : gregory.vegh@ulb.be

PhD Students

An Nguyen, MS

Research Projects : Gold Nanoparticles, a new delivery vesicles of MicroRNAs as potential fertility preservation strategy 

 

David Pening, MD

Research Projects : Evaluation of sperm capacitation as a parameter of male fertility diagnosis and impact of the cryopreservation process





 

Charlotte Klees, DVM

Research Projects : Pharmacologic protection of testis against gonadotoxic effects of treatment






 

Joana Dias Nunes, MS

Research Projects : "Impact of new therapeutic strategies on the fertility of young BRCA-mutated breast cancer patients"

Camille Pavoncelli, MS

Research Projects : "The Growing Follicle Protection during the Chemotherapy Exposure using Functionalized Gold Nanoparticle (AuNP)-mediated let-7a Delivery"

Students

YOUNSI OLINGER Amandine (Master en biologie médicale) année académique 2024-2025

Post Doc

Johanne Grosbois, MS, PhD

She completed her PhD thesis in our laboratory on the Regulation of human primordial follicle activation in vitro. 

She left us in 2019 for a post doc in the Telfer's team in the University of Edinburgh.

And now, she's back in our laboratory to work on the project : "Landscape of the chemotherapy-induced microenvironmental alterations in the human ovary"