Prof. Dr. Lukas van Oudenhove

Prof. Dr. Lukas van Oudenhove

Lukas van Oudenhove is associate research professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, head of the Laboratory for Brain-Gut Axis Studies (LabGAS) embedded in the Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID), and consultation-liaison psychiatrist at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.
His research focuses on mechanistic studies of (microbiota-)gut-brain interactions in health and disease, including functional gastrointestinal/somatic disorders, disorders of appetite and food intake, (visceral) pain, and affective disorders, using a variety of methods including functional brain imaging.