Wim Vanden Berghe

Prof. Wim Vanden Berghe obtained his PhD at the University of Ghent in 1999 in the Faculty of Science Biochemistry-Biotechnology. After postdoctoral research at various research institutions (University of Montpellier, Stellenbosch and Oxford), Wim Vanden Berghe was appointed professor of Epigenetics in 2009 in the lab for Protein chemistry, proteomics and epigenetic signaling (PPES) at the University of Antwerp and UGent. With his current research, he is looking for new epigenetic ways to prevent or inhibit diseases with the help of nutrition or bioactive substances isolated from plants that inhibit aging-related inflammatory processes in cancer, atherosclerosis obesity, diabetes or neurodegeneration.