Liliane Schoofs - Curriculum Vitae#

CAREER

• 1987 INSERM Research fellow, University of Rouen, France.
  
• 1988 PhD Sciences KU Leuven
  
• 1988 - 1989 Postdoc, NATO research fellow at USDA Agricultural Research Center, Texas, USA
  
• 1996 Associate Professor KU Leuven
  
• 1999 - now Full Professor KU Leuven, Head of Functional Genomics and Proteomics lab http://bio.kuleuven.be/df/LS/index.htm
  
• 2010 - 2014 Division Head Animal Physiology and Neurobiology KU Leuven
  
• 2013 - 2017 Vicerector Research Policy KU Leuven

AWARDS

• INSERM research fellow 1987
  
• NATO research fellow 1989
  
• Elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2010
  
• Advanced ERC grantee 2014: Peptidelearning
  
• Elected member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation) in 2022

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES

• Member Program Committee Int. Congress Comp. Endocrinol. In Boston, 2005; Hong Kong, 2009, Barcelona 2013, Canada 2017
  
• Council member Eur. Soc. Comp. Endocrinol (2014 – present) and member Steering Committee of the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 27th, 28th, 29th ESCE-congress

SELECTION RESEARCH GRANTS

• KULeuven 2019 – ‘25 Neuro-glial peptidergic signaling in cognition and aging
  
• FWO 2018 – ’21 Functional deciphering of TRH and thyrostimulin-related signalling in growth
  
• ERC Advanced Grant 2014 – ‘20 The role of neuropeptides in learning and memory
  
• H2020-SC1-Health 2015 – ‘20 Ageing with elegans: Validating C. elegans health span model
  
• IAP (IPROS) 2012 – ‘17 Integrative protein science

EQUIPMENT:

• Confocal and multiphoton laser scanning microscope
  
• Biosorter Flow Cytometry
  
• A proteomics center
  
• Single cell platform
  
• Valorisation grants
  
• EU-FP7-BOC: The Body on a Chip 2012 – 2015
  
• O&O project with Janssen Pharmaceutica. Biomarkers in AD. 2013 - 2017

PATENTS:

• PCT/EP02/07263 EPF receptor assays
  
• PCT/EP01/03688, WO01/74902, Adenine binding GPCRs
  

LICENSE

• GB/1522323.3, PCT/EP2016/081627: exclusive lic. CellSine

INVITED LECTURES: (270 lectures, most upon invitation)

TEACHING

• Immunological Biotechnology
  
• Genome, Proteome and Metabolome analysis
  
• Biology and Society
  
• Animal Physiology

TRAINING

Promotor of 51 PhD students at KU Leuven. Former junior scientists acquired positions in academia, biotech or pharma.

SCIENCE OUTREACH

Broad coverage in (inter)national media (https://bio.kuleuven.be/df/ls/press_releases).

RESEARCH POLICY

Research policy achievements as a vice rector for research at KULeuven include the promotion of excellent science, internationalisation and visibility of KU Leuven. I also installed starting grants to support early career scientists and a scientific integrity program on the prevention of scientific misconduct. As LERU member, I attended policy meetings at U.Oxford, U.Zurich, U.Helsinki, U. Paris-Sud, U.Milan, U.Lund, Imp. Coll. London, U.Heidelberg, Ch. U.Prague, U. Freiburg, U.Utrecht.