Laura Cools

Laura Cools is a PhD candidate and Researcher at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, affiliated with the Basic Biomedical Sciences department. Her work focuses on liver disease modeling using advanced cellular technologies.

Research interests center on

• Liver fibrosis mechanisms
• iPSC-derived spheroid systems
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD/NASH)
• Hepatic stellate cell biology
• 3D in vitro tissue engineering

Scientific achievements include the

• Best video award at the IC3Rs symposium (2022)

Laura actively collaborates with international teams on liver disease models, as evidenced by her presentations at conferences (2021-2024). Her research emphasizes the development of human and mouse-derived spheroid systems for fibrosis and metabolic disease studies.