The Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc (UCLouvain Saint-Luc) is a

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academic hospital of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), located on the university campus of UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe in

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Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

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. The hospital opened on 23 August 1976, moving from Leuven to Brussels.

History

In 1968 the

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acquired some land in the east of Brussels, which did not have a large hospital at that time. When the university split in two, the French-speaking departments moved from Leuven to

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to found the new city of

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, except for the medical faculty and health sciences sector, which moved to a newly built Brussels campus, now called '' UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe''. It is one of the two main university hospitals of the '' Université catholique de Louvain'', the other being the

CHU UCLouvain Namur The CHU UCLouvain Namur or CHU UCL Namur (also called ''UCLouvain Namur'' by the University of Louvain and officially named ''Centre hospitalier universitaire Dinant Godinne Saint-Elisabeth - UCL-Namur'') is a university hospital located in the ci ...

, 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

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transplant and the first photograph of human

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Human egg makes accidental debut on camera
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Famous people born at Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc

* Prince Amedeo, Princess Maria Laura and Prince Joachim, born in 1986, 1988 and 1991 respectively. * Princess Louise of Belgium, twins Prince Nicolas of Belgium and Prince Aymeric of Belgium, born in 2004 and 2005, respectively.

References

External links

Official web site
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