Center for Human Genetics - Molecular and Developmental GeneticsRoute description
Coming from Brussels National Airport
Brussels National Airport is situated in Zaventem, between Leuven and Brussels. Travelling to and from the airport is easy by train. The train station is located in the basement (level -1) of the airport terminal building itself. Schedule information for the Airport City Express, as well as for train service throughout the whole of Belgium (and international trains), is available on the Belgian National Railways (SNCB/NMBS) website (enter Zaventem (airport) as the departure or destination station).
Remark: Do not take the train going to Louvain-la-Neuve since this will bring you not to Leuven but to the French-language university, Université Catholique de Louvain in Ottignies.
By bus or train
Leuven station is approximately 4 km from Campus Gasthuisberg. Busses leave every 10 minutes. Take one of the following busses towards the city centre: 3, 16, 333, 334, 335, 338, 370, 371, 373 or 374 to the Gasthuisberg campus which is the terminal. The bus stop is right in front of the main entrance to the hospital. Bus 3 has an additional bus stop near the faculty of Medicine. (see map)
At week days between 6am and 8pm, you can also take the “ring bus”, line 600, which follows a direct connection between Leuven station and campus Gasthuisberg.
By car
Via the E40 motorway:
Between exits 22 and 23, take the E314 motorway. Then follow directions as for ‘via the E314 motorway’ below.
Via the E314 motorway:
Take exit 16 (UZ - Diensten) and follow directions to UZ Leuven. (See red bullets on the map below) You can park in the university hospital parking for visitors and patients.
Via the ring road:
If you are on the outside of the ring road: follow the ring road until just behind the Brusselsepoort to the signs for “UZ Leuven”. Follow directions to the roundabout at the sculpture called “Het Teken”. If you are on the inside of the ring road: follow the ring road until just behind the Tervuursepoort junction. Then follow directions to “UZ Leuven” and then “UZ Gasthuisberg”. (See purple bullets on the map below) You can park in the university hospital parking for visitors and patients.
From the bus stop or parking
Take the main entrance of the hospital. (green bullets on the map) From there on, you will be guided by colors - coded navigation arrows fixed to the walls of the corridors. Follow the color burgundy ("bordeaux") until the corridor terminates at a set of lifts. Take the lifts up to level 6. Present yourself at the reception of the Center for Human Genetics.
If you leave bus 3, take the entrance of building O&N1 (green bullets on the map) and follow the indications "CDG" in burgundy. At the end of the corridor, take the lfit until level 6 and present yourself at the reception desk of the Center for Human Genetics.
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