Research Support Team

A new service is offered to the scientific community at the UCLouvain health sciences sector: The Research Support Team. 

The team offers three types of supports to the investigators : 

1. Helping during the elaboration of grant proposals and the coordination of the different stakeholders for collaborative projects
2. Ensure that the use of human body material (HBM) is done in accordance with the regulations in force while respecting the rules issued by the UCLouvain Ethics Committee (EC),
3. Ensures the evaluation of regulatory aspects and the submission of proposed protocols to the EC and other competent authorities if necessary.
    

Composition

Jean Christophe Renauld (Coordinator)
Christophe Depoix – Julie Vanacker – Ilse Gutierrez Roelens
 

Christophe Depoix

Research project coordinator (elaboration and follow-up of collaborative research projects)

Tasks :

• Coordinating and assisting in preparing national or international grant applications
• Administrative management of research projects
• Local representative of the UCLouvain research office (ADRE) and the National Contact Point Wallonia (NCP)
• Single Point of Contact (SPOC) of the central administration offices
• Coordinating in the Health Sciences Sector the participation of the laboratories in the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF), a program for improving practices within laboratories for a sustainable research

Ilse Gutierrez-Roelens

Coordinator (organization, legal aspects) of human body material UCLouvain biobank

Tasks :

• Guaranteeing the good organization and recording of the HBM used and/or stored at the UCLouvain university 
• Facilitating and ensuring compliance with legal and ethical requirements 
• Establishing, developing, and maintaining a rich network with the different biobank stakeholders in Belgium and internationally 
• Fostering scientific collaborations by facilitating the availability and exchange of HBM and related scientific expertise 
• Taking care of all organizational, procedural and administrative aspects of HBM transfers 
• Representating the UCLouvain within The Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) European biobank network   
   

Julie Vanacker

Coordinator of regulatory and ethical aspects in clinical studies

Tasks :

• University point of contact for initial submissions of clinical study files to the Ethics Committee and Competent Authorities Recherche clinique - Etudes académique UCLouvain | Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc
• Clinical study follow-up 
• Clinical trial/Clinical investigation monitoring (CRA) 
• PhD students training in clinical research