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On 30 November 2022, Magaly Ghesquière and Laurence Meurant (UNamur), co-authors of the book "School and Deafness” (in French “Ecole et Surdité - Une expérience d'enseignement bilingue et inclusif", received the prize for the best book for Teaching and Continuing Education from the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. This is another fine award that complements the recent release of the first bilingual sign language-French contextual dictionary searchable in sign language.

A bilingual French-sign language dictionary (LSFB), which can be queried in both languages, thanks to cutting-edge technology (facial recognition) and access to a vast database compiling more than 4,500 signs, words and expressions.

Angélique Aristondo, a C2W post-doctoral fellow at UNamur, has distinguished herself by winning the second 2023 Gender and Health Research Award from the ARES Women and Science Committee. Her research project focuses on violence against women in Senegal.

This June 28, 2024, the first twenty-two students of the Certificat interuniversitaire en Langue des Signes de Belgique Francophone (LSFB) et français, are proclaimed at UNamur. This is the first training course in French-speaking Belgium to be entirely designed in sign language for the deaf. It represents a significant step forward in inclusive education and the linguistic and social inclusion of deaf and hard-of-hearing people. It also highlights the strengths of deaf professionals in these fields.

Thematic sessionsThe day will be organized in two thematic sessions:Cancer metabolismNew advances in cancer therapyInvited speakersProf. Rebecca FITZGERALD, Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge, UKDr. Sébastien DUTERTRE, IBMM, University of Montpellier, FranceProf. Sarah-Maria FENDT, Laboratory of Cellular Metabolism and Metabolic Regulation, VIB-KU Leuven, BelgiumDr. Arnaud BLOMME, Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium Call for communicationsYoung researchers are invited to submit abstracts for oral communications and posters. All topics related to the field of cancer research are welcome. The deadline for abstract submission is April 1, 2025. Organizing committeeProf. Jean-Pierre Gillet - UNamur, NARILIS, Laboratory of Molecular Cancer BiologyProf. Marc Hennequart - UNamur, NARILIS, Laboratory of Cancer metabolismProf. Marielle Boonen - UNamur, NARILIS, Laboratory of Intracellular Trafficking BiologyProf. Benjamin Beck - ULB, IRIBHMProf. Lionel D'Hondt - CHU UCL Namur, Department of Oncology More info

When a tumour develops in an organism, it is very common for the cancer cells to leave the tumour and move to another organ where they proliferate, creating what are known as metastases. This process is an important factor in mortality, as it means that the disease worsens. Hence the interest in better understanding what happens during this phenomenon. This is what the multidisciplinary team of Carine Michiels, researcher at the NARILIS Institute of UNamur, and Davide Bonifazi, researcher at the University of Vienna, did in the framework of the PACMAN research project financed by the FNRS. The results of this study are published in the journal Neoplasia.

In late November, the Mont-Saint-Guibert-based company Cellistic® donated equipment it no longer used to UNamur. By enabling the university to give this equipment a second life, Cellistic is making an important gesture in support of the development of university research.

EMBO Courses and Workshops are selected for their excellent scientific quality and timelines, provision of good networking activities for all participants and speaker gender diversity (at least 40% of speakers must be from the underrepresented gender). Organisers are encouraged to implement measures to make the meeting environmentally more sustainable.Upon registration - More info and registration on the EMBO website.

Since September 2023, Marc Hennequart, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at UNamur, has been conducting groundbreaking research into pancreatic cancer. His team, based at the Faculty of Medicine and the Institut Narilis, studies the early stages of oncogenesis (the process of transforming a normal cell into a cancerous one) to better understand the metabolic changes behind this particularly aggressive cancer.