The world has woken up to understand the disturbing impact of a global virus epidemic. Scientists have however been studying the risks for many years, trying to find novel ways to model and predict the spread of viruses. 

Prof. dr. Steven Abrams is an expert in the domain of infectious disease modeling. He works for the Global Health Institute and Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics at the universities of Antwerp and Hasselt, respectively. He will share with us his first hand experiences including those on the current COVID-19 crisis, allowing us to better understand what the impact is on and what it means for biopharmaceutical research”.