The current team of the End-of-Life Care Research Group consists of about 40 core staff members. The team is led by the director prof. dr. Luc Deliens, medical sociologist, professor of Palliative Care Research at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University, and by the co-director prof. dr. Freddy Mortier, professor of ethics at Ghent University and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Ghent University.