BLT General Assembly & Scientific Meeting on Mar 31st 2026 – Program available

BLT Meeting & General Assembly – March 31st, 2026, 17:00-22:00

Location: UCL Brussels (salle Verrière, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200 Brussels)

Program:

• 17:00-17:30 Welcome
• 17:30-18:15 Keynote lecture by Henrik Green (Linköping University): NPS: metabolism and activity
• 18:15-19:35 Short communications
  • Marjolein Coulier (Ghent University): Assessment of the intrinsic cannabinoid activity of semi-synthetic cannabinoids using β-arrestin-2 recruitment assays
  • Sandrien Desmet (NICC): Psychoactive substances detected in seized vape liquids in Belgium (2024–2025): analytical findings and a toxicological case study
  • Hanna De Baets (Ghent University): Improving 11-Ketotestosterone Stability: From Liquid Blood to Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling
  • Amorn Slosse (NICC): Integrating a Rapid Screening Step to Enhance Confirmatory Workflows for Large Seizures of Cannabis
  • Kevin Vandenbroucke (Ghent University): Capillary Dried Blood Microsampling is not suited for Dihydropyrimidine Dehydrogenase (DPD) Phenotyping
  • Karen Segers (NICC): “Pink Cocaine?”
  • Inez Lambrecht (Ghent University): In vitro characterization of newly emerging nitazenes: Cyanazenes
  • Emma Vertriest (Ghent University): Pharmacological Characterization of Emerging Designer Cathinones at Monoamine Transporters: Insights into Stimulant Activity and Potential Risks
• 19:35-20:00 General assembly (incl. announcement of the new Board)
• 20:00-… Reception

Registration: free of charge, but required via https://forms.gle/w3FEe9n8iqNeKSCv9 (deadline Mar 29th).

RIZIV accreditation has been requested.

Hair Analysis – Working Group

The BLT meeting will be preceded by a meeting of experts involved in hair sampling and analysis (on invitation only), with the aim of drafting a Belgian-Luxembourg guideline for the analysis and interpretation of results from hair sample analysis.