Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

The Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) was founded in 1834 and has many distinguished alumni, including three Nobel Prize winners: J. Bordet (Medicine), A. Claude (Medicine), I. Prigogine (Chemistry) and F. Englert (Physics). The Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics and Organogenesis, or LABO, (www.ulb.ac.be/~labo) is located in the ULB Faculty of Medicine. The LABO gained in the last fifteen years, experience in the field of Clinical Biomechanics thanks to the multi-disciplinary approach of its members (including orthopaedics, physiotherapists, radiologists, biologists, engineers). Research topics include: joint kinematics, motion analysis, medical imaging, musculoskeletal modelling and data fusion. The last 6 years LABO performed pioneering work by integrating novel functional evaluation methods into serious gaming environment in collaboration with partner VUB. The LABO is in charge of the Centre for Functional Evaluation of the ULB Erasme Hospital and been involved in various EC-funded projects (VAKHUM, Bionet, JPD, Multimod, STEP, LHDL, DhErgo and VPH-NoE) and two projects funded by InnovIris. The LABO scientific, technical and clinical knowledge available from the LABO will be used throughout the current project.