Leila Akkari
@leilaakkari.bsky.social
Cancer Biologist. Group Leader @NKI_nl Amsterdam, @oncodeinstitute. Microenvironment addict. Macrophage groupie.
http://akkarilab.com
http://akkarilab.com
And he did a fantastic job! Bravo Menno, very proud of you 👏🏻
It was a great pleasure to present our recent work on the spatial dynamics of lipid-laden macrophages at #EANO2025! Many thanks to everyone who attended this great meeting and to @leilaakkari.bsky.social for allowing me to work on this exciting project.
@eanoassociation.bsky.social
@eanoassociation.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
And he did a fantastic job! Bravo Menno, very proud of you 👏🏻
Bravo to @martina-farber.bsky.social and Serena from our lab for writing an insightful preview of a very important paper from the Dimitri lab !👏🏻👏🏻
‘Smelling’ lipid cues: chemosensory receptors tune tumor-associated macrophage behavior #immunology
‘Smelling’ lipid cues: chemosensory receptors tune tumor-associated macrophage behavior
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are key regulators of the tumor microenvironment (TME), but their heterogeneity, driven by tumor-derived cues, poses challenges for therapeutic targeting and underscores the need for precise macrophage reprogramming strategies. Through a genome-wide clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) screen, Marelli et al. identified chemosensors as lipid-sensing regulators of macrophage activity, revealing new therapeutic avenues.
dlvr.it
September 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Bravo to @martina-farber.bsky.social and Serena from our lab for writing an insightful preview of a very important paper from the Dimitri lab !👏🏻👏🏻
Reposted by Leila Akkari
❤️🧡💛💚💙 The traditional Canal Parade marked the end of Pride 2025 this past Saturday. Eighty boats took part, with number 72 proudly representing our Institute. We believe that an inclusive organization, where you can be yourself, is the foundation for strong collaboration and excellent research.
August 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
❤️🧡💛💚💙 The traditional Canal Parade marked the end of Pride 2025 this past Saturday. Eighty boats took part, with number 72 proudly representing our Institute. We believe that an inclusive organization, where you can be yourself, is the foundation for strong collaboration and excellent research.
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Meet Leila Akkari (@leilaakkari.bsky.social). She combines insights from immunology and molecular biology to study how tumour cells and immune cells influence each other.
👉 www.ammodo-science.org/researches/l...
Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 🧪
#immunology #molbiol
👉 www.ammodo-science.org/researches/l...
Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 🧪
#immunology #molbiol
August 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Meet Leila Akkari (@leilaakkari.bsky.social). She combines insights from immunology and molecular biology to study how tumour cells and immune cells influence each other.
👉 www.ammodo-science.org/researches/l...
Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 🧪
#immunology #molbiol
👉 www.ammodo-science.org/researches/l...
Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 🧪
#immunology #molbiol
Reposted by Leila Akkari
Entended deadline for the hands-on Cancer Neuroscience Cajal Course in Bordeaux. Spread the word!
June 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Entended deadline for the hands-on Cancer Neuroscience Cajal Course in Bordeaux. Spread the word!
So proud of @efitsouri.bsky.social, Thijs and Menno from our lab who ran up the Alpes d’Huez and raised funds for cancer research with @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social. Inspiring 🙏🤩
Today, these amazing NKI researchers are pushing their limits by climbing the Alpe d’Huez. Go for it lovely people! We are proud to see so many of you dedicate your time and effort to supporting cancer research.
With @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social
#AlpedHuZes #cancerresearch #ad6 #NKI
With @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social
#AlpedHuZes #cancerresearch #ad6 #NKI
June 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
So proud of @efitsouri.bsky.social, Thijs and Menno from our lab who ran up the Alpes d’Huez and raised funds for cancer research with @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social. Inspiring 🙏🤩
Nothing like a little animal facility trip for injections with @claudiadepaulis.bsky.social and team to break from grant reviews 😍! I don’t do much experiments anymore, but it’s nice to feel useful sometimes 😂😂
May 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Nothing like a little animal facility trip for injections with @claudiadepaulis.bsky.social and team to break from grant reviews 😍! I don’t do much experiments anymore, but it’s nice to feel useful sometimes 😂😂
My blue sky mindset as very busy times are keeping me from seeing it much (both the sky and kid!). Hard trade off of being a scientist,-something life is really just about research, and that’s ok, as long as it’s not too long :)
May 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
My blue sky mindset as very busy times are keeping me from seeing it much (both the sky and kid!). Hard trade off of being a scientist,-something life is really just about research, and that’s ok, as long as it’s not too long :)
Very proud to receive this Ammodo Science Award recognition of our lab’s work the past few years @nkinl.bsky.social @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social 🙏🙏. Big up to my fabulous lab peeps, mentors, colleagues, family and friends for all their support. Looking forward to celebrate altogether on May 7th🥳🤩🥰!
Cancer researcher @leilaakkari.bsky.social receives an Ammodo Science Award for fundamental research. These biannual awards encourage outstanding scientists in their groundbreaking, fundamental research ➡️ t.co/SmXpE10QaS
@ammodoscience.bsky.social
Photo Leila Akkari - ©Florian Braakman
@ammodoscience.bsky.social
Photo Leila Akkari - ©Florian Braakman
April 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Very proud to receive this Ammodo Science Award recognition of our lab’s work the past few years @nkinl.bsky.social @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social 🙏🙏. Big up to my fabulous lab peeps, mentors, colleagues, family and friends for all their support. Looking forward to celebrate altogether on May 7th🥳🤩🥰!
Reposted by Leila Akkari
A beautiful article about writing, which also advocates against the use of LLM when learning academic writing
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write
www.nature.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A beautiful article about writing, which also advocates against the use of LLM when learning academic writing
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Happy to be organising this year’s yICSA symposium at the @nkinl.bsky.social. Looking forward to two days full of exciting research 😄 #yICSAAmsterdam @yicsac.bsky.social @icsasenescence.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Happy to be organising this year’s yICSA symposium at the @nkinl.bsky.social. Looking forward to two days full of exciting research 😄 #yICSAAmsterdam @yicsac.bsky.social @icsasenescence.bsky.social
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Please spread widely 🙏, thank you !
Dear community, we are actively looking for the mouse 344SQ lung adenocarcinoma cell line (129sv background) ?
We would also be interested in any other mouse tumor cell line in this background (129sv).
Highly appreciated !
Thank you in advance
Dear community, we are actively looking for the mouse 344SQ lung adenocarcinoma cell line (129sv background) ?
We would also be interested in any other mouse tumor cell line in this background (129sv).
Highly appreciated !
Thank you in advance
March 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Please spread widely 🙏, thank you !
Dear community, we are actively looking for the mouse 344SQ lung adenocarcinoma cell line (129sv background) ?
We would also be interested in any other mouse tumor cell line in this background (129sv).
Highly appreciated !
Thank you in advance
Dear community, we are actively looking for the mouse 344SQ lung adenocarcinoma cell line (129sv background) ?
We would also be interested in any other mouse tumor cell line in this background (129sv).
Highly appreciated !
Thank you in advance
Just perfectly worded👇. Happy international women’s day to all !💪. #WomenInScience
Giving thanks for all amazing and inspiring women around the world on International Women’s Day
We will never give up fighting for equality, for what is just and fair, and for each other 💪
#WomenOfTheWorldUnite
#WomenInScience 🧪
We will never give up fighting for equality, for what is just and fair, and for each other 💪
#WomenOfTheWorldUnite
#WomenInScience 🧪
March 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just perfectly worded👇. Happy international women’s day to all !💪. #WomenInScience
A TME dynamics challenge!!! 🤩🤩🤩 @cancergrand.bsky.social
The 7 new #CancerGrandChallenges have just been announced! Read about them now in Cancer Discovery: doi.org/10.1158/2159...
@cancergrand.bsky.social
@cancergrand.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A TME dynamics challenge!!! 🤩🤩🤩 @cancergrand.bsky.social
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Had an amazing time at AMC25! It was a great opportunity to present my work, have insightful discussions and connect with amazing people! Very grateful to have received the poster prize - thanks to the organizers for such a fantastic event! 🤩☀️🌴
🎉Congratulations to our Poster Prize winners, Manuel Mastel (DKFZ), Bianca Diaz (Weill Cornell Medicine), Martina Farber (NKI) & Menno Boon (NKI)!🎉 #AMC25
@manuelmastel.bsky.social @martina-farber.bsky.social @juliensage.bsky.social
@manuelmastel.bsky.social @martina-farber.bsky.social @juliensage.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Had an amazing time at AMC25! It was a great opportunity to present my work, have insightful discussions and connect with amazing people! Very grateful to have received the poster prize - thanks to the organizers for such a fantastic event! 🤩☀️🌴
Hurray for Menno and Martina (M&M) for their poster prize at #AMC25 🤩🤩 thank you @juliensage.bsky.social @fusionconf.bsky.social for having us here- what a fantastic few days of science (and sun.. 😉)
March 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Hurray for Menno and Martina (M&M) for their poster prize at #AMC25 🤩🤩 thank you @juliensage.bsky.social @fusionconf.bsky.social for having us here- what a fantastic few days of science (and sun.. 😉)
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Our excellent host, Julien Sage, sharing a surprising/unexpected role for T cells in the biology of small cell lung cancer …thanks Julien and Kevin for organising such a great @fusionconf.bsky.social (mouse models of cancer) conference!!
February 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Our excellent host, Julien Sage, sharing a surprising/unexpected role for T cells in the biology of small cell lung cancer …thanks Julien and Kevin for organising such a great @fusionconf.bsky.social (mouse models of cancer) conference!!
Reposted by Leila Akkari
Excited to be attending #AMC25 and hearing about amazing science!! @fusionconf.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Excited to be attending #AMC25 and hearing about amazing science!! @fusionconf.bsky.social
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This evening focused on insights into heterogeneity & plasticity:
💥 Tuomas Tammela on cell state interrogation
🧪 Laura Attardi on p53 in cell state transitions
🧬 Frederic De Sauvage on tumor cell plasticity in colorectal cancer
Thanks to our incredible speakers for their contributions! 🙌 #AMC25
💥 Tuomas Tammela on cell state interrogation
🧪 Laura Attardi on p53 in cell state transitions
🧬 Frederic De Sauvage on tumor cell plasticity in colorectal cancer
Thanks to our incredible speakers for their contributions! 🙌 #AMC25
February 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This evening focused on insights into heterogeneity & plasticity:
💥 Tuomas Tammela on cell state interrogation
🧪 Laura Attardi on p53 in cell state transitions
🧬 Frederic De Sauvage on tumor cell plasticity in colorectal cancer
Thanks to our incredible speakers for their contributions! 🙌 #AMC25
💥 Tuomas Tammela on cell state interrogation
🧪 Laura Attardi on p53 in cell state transitions
🧬 Frederic De Sauvage on tumor cell plasticity in colorectal cancer
Thanks to our incredible speakers for their contributions! 🙌 #AMC25
Congratulations to @tymillerlab.bsky.social and the Bernstein lab for this elegant work defining phenotypic programs of myeloid cells in gliomas-so many integrated cues to it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤩
new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Programs, origins and immunomodulatory functions of myeloid cells in glioma - Nature
A study of myeloid cells in gliomas, a type of brain tumour, used a factor-based computational framework to reveal four immunomodulatory gene-expression programs that are expressed across myeloid cell...
www.nature.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Congratulations to @tymillerlab.bsky.social and the Bernstein lab for this elegant work defining phenotypic programs of myeloid cells in gliomas-so many integrated cues to it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤩
Yay! Welcome to Bluesky René!
Times they are a changing. Exit X, happy to join a new community on BlueSky @themaximacenter.bsky.social @hetavl.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Yay! Welcome to Bluesky René!
Looking forward to joining you there Rich !
Spots still available for the Cancer epigenetics meeting hosted by @ludwigcancer.bsky.social at Oxford @ox.ac.uk. Amazing lineup of speakers including Craig Thompson, Scott Lowe, Caroline Bartman and many others. Info here - register soon!: ludwigoxfordepicancer2025.my.canva.site
Ludwig Oxford EpiCancer Symposium 2025
Ludwig Oxford are delighted to welcome you to join us for the Ludwig Oxford EpiCancer Symposium, held on the 26th and 27th June 2025 at Rhodes House, Oxford
ludwigoxfordepicancer2025.my.canva.site
February 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Looking forward to joining you there Rich !
Huge congrats my friend. This is so cool- extracellular cleaving of peptides as a nutrient backup??? So so cool. Life lesson from this study- cooperate/collaborate to thrive :) Wonder what macrophages do in this whole process… also love how the paper is written, a tour de force! Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤩🤩
First: I apologize for never coming here and now doing so only to brag 😬
Second: I am very proud of the people in our lab. We are a small group in a Bio department and this work took an enormous amount of effort from every one here.
rdcu.be/eaxEz
Second: I am very proud of the people in our lab. We are a small group in a Bio department and this work took an enormous amount of effort from every one here.
rdcu.be/eaxEz
Cooperative nutrient scavenging is an evolutionary advantage in cancer
Nature - Nutrient-starved tumour cells cooperate by secreting aminopeptidases that digest oligopeptides in the microenvironment, creating a shared pool of free amino acids.
rdcu.be
February 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Huge congrats my friend. This is so cool- extracellular cleaving of peptides as a nutrient backup??? So so cool. Life lesson from this study- cooperate/collaborate to thrive :) Wonder what macrophages do in this whole process… also love how the paper is written, a tour de force! Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤩🤩
Reposted by Leila Akkari
Today is #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience. Women continue to face systemic barriers & biases in pursuing scientific careers. Closing the gender gap requires breaking stereotypes,promoting role models & supporting womens advancement through actions that promote inclusion,diversity & equity 🧪
February 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Today is #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience. Women continue to face systemic barriers & biases in pursuing scientific careers. Closing the gender gap requires breaking stereotypes,promoting role models & supporting womens advancement through actions that promote inclusion,diversity & equity 🧪
Well done, bravo to @nkinl.bsky.social for developing and now implementing this initiative- super happy to have Angelina in the lab for the next few months! Very proud of my workplace 👌👏🏻🙌🙌🙌
On this #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience we proudly present to you: our roving scientist! She supports women scientists during their maternity leave, which often happens during a crucial phase in their careers.
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February 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Well done, bravo to @nkinl.bsky.social for developing and now implementing this initiative- super happy to have Angelina in the lab for the next few months! Very proud of my workplace 👌👏🏻🙌🙌🙌