Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc


The Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc is a non-profit-making hospital of the University of Louvain, located on the university campus of UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium. The hospital opened on 23 August 1976.

History

In 1968 the Catholic University of Louvain acquired some land in the east of Brussels, which did not have a large hospital at that time. When the university split into two the French-speaking part moved to Ottignies except for the medical faculty and health sciences sector, which moved to the Brussels site.
It is one of the two main university hospitals of the Université catholique de Louvain, the other being the CHU UCLouvain Namur, in the Walloon province of Namur.

Research

Being a teaching and university hospital UCLouvain Saint-Luc continues to do ground breaking medical research. For example, the first baby born after ovarian transplant and the first photograph of human ovulation.

Famous people born at Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc