VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology

Meet Anton (Anton Willems)! Whatever challenge you might face in your research, Anton for sure gets the honey out of it! Just wonderful to see him flying and buzzing around his technological flowers (#MassSpectrometry), here you can see him with his favorite MS, the Scimax MR MS (Bruker). He's a (bee)keeper!! Metabolomics Core Leuven

Interesting opportunity for students aiming to start a PhD project in Leukemia research !! PhD positions available in my research group at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology - Center for Human Genetics and 9 other EU-based universities.

More than half of cancer patients in whom the cancer spreads beyond the primary site have lung metastases. What makes the lungs such a tempting place for cancer cells? New work (https://lnkd.in/evhZpvTR) by Ginevra Doglioni, Sarah-Maria Fendt, and colleagues find a role for the amino acid aspartate in changing cancer cells' translational program, which tunes the cells for aggressive growth. Research Foundation Flanders - FWO Kom op tegen Kanker (vzw) Stichting tegen Kanker - Fondation contre le Cancer VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology

👏 Congratulations Lidiia Rumiantseva!! She managed to distill her PhD research into an engaging presentation of only 180 seconds and inspire the audience. Amazing to see how impactful science can be when shared in simple, engaging ways! #3MT #ScienceCommunication #PhDLife

Congratulations to Colinda Scheele for receiving the Alumni Award 2024 of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. With this award, BAEF wants to encourage young biomedical researchers to continue their efforts. 👉 Read more about Colinda's research: https://lnkd.in/ekvf9wVk

👏 Congratulations Bart Ghesquière and the Metabolomics Core Leuven team! Excited to see how this will boost our research 🥼

Congratulations Xiaozheng L. (lab of Sarah-Maria Fendt) for being awarded at the Belgian L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Ceremony 2024. What a great recognition for your work 🤩🏆

🦋 We are now active on Bluesky! 👉 Follow us here: https://lnkd.in/e5rD_tYq

Can we increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy by taking into account the menstrual cycle of women with breast cancer? 👇 Great new research by the Colinda Scheele lab and The Netherlands Cancer Institute!

We are excited to invite you to the 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Conference, a half-day event with thought-provoking presentations, panel-discussions and first-hand experiences of personal journeys in academia. The event will also tackle how to create institutional change for a more diverse and inclusive working environment in research.  There will be lots of opportunities to interact with the speakers and ask your questions – either during the panel discussions or afterwards, at the networking lunch. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀: - Date: Friday, the 7th of February 2025   - Time: 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM (followed by a networking lunch)   - Venue: ON2 BMW1 Auditorium, Gasthuisberg Campus, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven The conference is organised by students and faculty of the KU Leuven Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, but the conference is intended for a much broader audience from all areas of research. The conference will feature an inspiring line-up of speakers, including Koen Van Laer, Adrian Liston, Delia Mensitieri, Jan D'hooge, Mohamed Lamkanfi, Gamze Kanatlar and Christine Durinx. They will cover different aspects of why diversity is key to innovation and science, how to create more inclusive research departments and workplaces, and how have individuals forged their career paths in academia and industry. For more information and to register go here: https://lnkd.in/eG_FKkeF #diversityinscience #conference #inclusioninacademia