Alberto Hernández Barranco
ahernandezb.bsky.social
Alberto Hernández Barranco
@ahernandezb.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at UNIL. Joyce,s lab, Exploring and Exploiting the Tumor Microenvironment.
Interested in understanding how to stop brain metastasis.
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Celebrating our annual international lab dinner 🎉 👨🏽‍🍳 🧑🏻‍🍳

We are so fortunate to have this amazing team of motivated scientists, and very talented cooks 🤩 sharing delicious food & culture from around the world 🌍🌎🌏

Grateful for our #international #team 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇨🇦🇪🇸🇨🇭🇬🇧🇪🇬🇩🇪🇵🇹🇲🇽🇮🇪 - this truly enriches our science 🙏 🙌
September 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Dear friends at the University of Lausanne - please consider signing this petition

This is to say NO to the funding cut of 24 million CHF that will negatively impact the quality of our teaching & research 🧪🧑🏼‍🎓 - and have a knock-on effect on the local economy

All students, staff, faculty can sign ⏬
Let’s reject budget cuts in education and research!
We, researchers, students, and members of the administrative and technical staff of the University of Lausanne (UNIL), firmly oppose the budget cuts announced for UNIL by the government of Vaud on 24t...
vaud.ssp-vpod.ch
September 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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A warm welcome to our new lab members!

Matteo Poncina 🇮🇹 starting his PhD in the Adaptmet ITN

Inés Panigua Cabana 🇪🇸 joining us for her postdoc

Alessandro Gigliotti 🇨🇭 & Juan Daniel Martin del Campo Flores 🇲🇽 doing their master thesis research with us

Looking forward to exciting science together 🙌 🧪
September 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄: 𝐅𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚

#BrainTIME 🧠🦠🔬🧪

UNIL news 📰: www.unil.ch/news/1757312...
#OpenAccess article 🔗: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@alvarezprado.bsky.social @ahernandezb.bsky.social
@joycelab.bsky.social
@fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social
#adar1 #adar1 | Oncologie | UNIL-CHUV
𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄: 𝐅𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚 🧠 Glioblastoma is one of the deadliest cancers. A new study in 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔 by Ángel Álvarez-Prado and Johanna Joyce shows how reawakenin...
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September 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Can we exploit anti-viral immunity to treat brain cancer? 🦠 🧠

Our last results suggest so, go ahead and check the paper if you’re curious! 🤓

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

#Brain_cancer #Glioblastoma #TumorMicroenvironment #RNAsensing #ADAR1
Cancer cell and microenvironmental rewiring by ADAR1 loss impairs glioblastoma tumor growth and extends survival
Álvarez-Prado et al. report that targeting ADAR1 triggers cancer-cell-intrinsic anti-proliferative mechanisms and fosters anti-tumoral immune responses, blocking tumor growth and extending survival in...
www.cell.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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How can we reawaken the body’s own anti-viral defenses to fight brain cancer?

Delighted to share our new study where we now answer this question, led by the brilliant @alvarezprado.bsky.social who is now an independent PI at LIH Luxembourg 👏👏

#BrainTIME 🧠🦠🧪
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thrilled to share our new study from @joycelab.bsky.social on glioblastoma, the most aggressive brain tumor. Targeting ADAR1 slows tumor growth & mobilizes the immune system — a step forward for future treatments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔗 1/3
Cancer cell and microenvironmental rewiring by ADAR1 loss impairs glioblastoma tumor growth and extends survival
Glioblastomas are the most frequent and aggressive primary brain tumors. Current treatments invariably fail, a consequence of the pronounced heterogen…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🧠 Neuro-immunology is reshaping how we understand the brain - across many diseases, including #cancer

In this research highlight 🧪🔬 we discuss a new study in #Nature by Remsik, Boire et al showing how IFNγ-activated immune cells in the CNS, incl DCs, help constrain leptomeningeal #metastasis
CNS gatekeepers: IFNγ-activated dendritic cells control leptomeningeal metastasis - Cell Research
Cell Research - CNS gatekeepers: IFNγ-activated dendritic cells control leptomeningeal metastasis
www.nature.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Excited to share our research highlight on leptomeningeal metastasis and how IFNγ-activated dendritic cells shape CNS immune control—featuring the latest from @adrienneboire.bsky.social and @meningojan.bsky.social
A privilege to write this with @johannajoyce.bsky.social at @joycelab.bsky.social 🙏🧠🔬
June 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Celebrating 2️⃣0️⃣ years of the Joyce Lab 🎉

We had an amazing reunion, bringing together past & present lab members from Lausanne & NYC 🏔️🗽

Huge thanks to everyone who came from around the world, shared science & happy memories and together made this milestone really special 😍

#JoyceLab20 #ProudMentor
June 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Wishing our amazing postdoc @lbejarano.bsky.social continued success and happiness - as she leaves us to start her own lab in Spain 🎉🥳

Leire has been one of the most positive, creative, and kind scientists I've had the privilege to mentor - we shall all miss you so much!

#NewPI 🤩
#ProudMentor 😊
May 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Excited to see our image on the cover of #Immunity today 🤩

Congrats to the amazing @lbejarano.bsky.social & all authors for our #brain #tumor #vasculature study

www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Huge 🙏 🙏 to the v talented @joanagcc.bsky.social for creating this super cover 🧠🧪

@cp-immunity.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Thrilled to see our vascular atlas across primary and metastatic brain tumors finally out in Immunity! 😍 🍾

Thanks to @johannajoyce.bsky.social for her invaluable mentorship and to all the authors involved! 🎉
March 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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How does the #vasculature regulate #immune cell infiltration & function across different brain tumors? 🧠🧪

Excited to share our latest study in #Immunity where we uncover some interesting answers— led by the amazing @lbejarano.bsky.social 🤩👏🏻

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@cp-immunity.bsky.social

www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
March 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Cancer knows no borders, and setbacks in one part of the world can have lasting consequences for #patients everywhere

The #EACR, and all co-signing national #cancer societies & foundations, stand in solidarity and offer our full support to our friends and colleagues in the US

#StandUpForScience 🧪
March 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Celebrating the start of the holiday season with our wonderful lab 🎄🎅 🎁

Grateful for this incredible, fun team - and a great year of science together 🤩🙏

Happy holidays!! 🌟🥂❄️🎉
December 9, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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Hi friends 👋
We are a lab of curious researchers - dedicated to understanding and ultimately helping treat cancer

Our lab is led by Johanna Joyce, and we are students, postdocs & technicians from all over the world
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We love doing science 🧪🔬 and living in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland!
November 17, 2024 at 9:32 AM