# Jan Steyaert - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Jan Steyaert for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-04-22

## Identity
- Name: Jan Steyaert
- Role: Founder
- Company: Confo Therapeutics
- Location: Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-steyaert-b423b3244

## About
Jan Steyaert is a professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vub/llms.txt) and director of the Structural Biology Brussels (https://techwiki.ai/cities/brussels/llms.txt) lab at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vub/llms.txt), as well as Deputy-Director of the Structural Biology Research Center of Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vib/llms.txt). He founded Confo Therapeutics (https://techwiki.ai/companies/confo-therapeutics/llms.txt) in 2015 as a spin-off from his lab at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vub/llms.txt) and Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vib/llms.txt), based on the ConfoBody technology he developed for stabilizing GPCRs in pharmacologically relevant conformations. He is also a co-founder of Ablynx and Biotalys (https://techwiki.ai/companies/biotalys/llms.txt), and won the Jacob and Louise Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine in 2022.

## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [company] Confo Therapeutics: https://techwiki.ai/companies/confo-therapeutics/llms.txt
- [hub] Vrije Universiteit Brussel: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vub/llms.txt
- [city] Brussels: https://techwiki.ai/cities/brussels/llms.txt
- [hub] Flanders Institute for Biotechnology: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vib/llms.txt
- [company] Biotalys: https://techwiki.ai/companies/biotalys/llms.txt
- [city] Ghent: https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt

## How to Reach
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-steyaert-b423b3244
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/jan-steyaert/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/jan-steyaert/llms-full.txt

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