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Posts and updates about our journey in Bhutan.


The Visit by the Raes Lab Has Successfully Concluded
On 15 October 2025, Dr Raul Yhossef Tito Tadeo from the Raes Lab at the VIB-KULeuven Centre for Microbiology in Belgium, arrived at the Paro airport in Bhutan after a 2-day journey. Normally he was to be joined by the Lab Lead Prof. Dr. Jeroen Raes who unfortunately had to cancel his journey at the last minute. Despite this, we were still able to complete most of the objectives of their visit centered around capacity building at the Royal Centres for Disease Control (RCDC) in
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After a temporary standstill, the longitudinal nutrition/microbiome and the anthropological parts in Laya have garnered a promising pace again during the last two months.
With a standstill of more than two and a half months due to paperwork, the longitudinal nutrition/microbiome and the anthropological...
Wim van Daele
Sep 26
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Cross-sectional part in urban food environments concluded with a high success rate but with smaller numbers of participants compared to our earlier successes.
The last cross-sectional part of the nutrition/microbiome phase in the EATWELL project took place between 5 July and 5 August 2025, among...
Wim van Daele
Sep 22
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