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Congratulations to @benjaminrowland.bsky.social for receiving an @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant together with TU Delft, University of Edinburgh and @mit.edu / @institutcurie.bsky.social he will work on the GeneMotors project to unravel how SMC proteins pull DNA into loops.
More: bit.ly/4osZjOJ
More: bit.ly/4osZjOJ
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Congratulations to @benjaminrowland.bsky.social for receiving an @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant together with TU Delft, University of Edinburgh and @mit.edu / @institutcurie.bsky.social he will work on the GeneMotors project to unravel how SMC proteins pull DNA into loops.
More: bit.ly/4osZjOJ
More: bit.ly/4osZjOJ
Thanks to support from the Dutch Cancer Society , researcher Marjanka Schmidt and her team are expanding the Hebon study to include more and more diverse participants in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer research. More: www.nki.nl/news-events/...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Thanks to support from the Dutch Cancer Society , researcher Marjanka Schmidt and her team are expanding the Hebon study to include more and more diverse participants in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer research. More: www.nki.nl/news-events/...
Proud! Our scientific director Thijn Brummelkamp was a guest at the “Uitblinkerslunch” (Lunch for Outstanding Achievers) hosted by King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima.
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Proud! Our scientific director Thijn Brummelkamp was a guest at the “Uitblinkerslunch” (Lunch for Outstanding Achievers) hosted by King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima.
What a great recognition for our inspiring scientist and professor Karin de Visser: she received the Josephine Nefkens Prize 2025. Congratulations Karin! 🎉
#NKI #fundamentalresearch #cancerresearch #oncology #breastcancer #cancerimmunology
#NKI #fundamentalresearch #cancerresearch #oncology #breastcancer #cancerimmunology
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What a great recognition for our inspiring scientist and professor Karin de Visser: she received the Josephine Nefkens Prize 2025. Congratulations Karin! 🎉
#NKI #fundamentalresearch #cancerresearch #oncology #breastcancer #cancerimmunology
#NKI #fundamentalresearch #cancerresearch #oncology #breastcancer #cancerimmunology
The results of the SUPREMO trial are in and published in @nejm.org. Results show that radiotherapy can be safely omitted as a treatment for many breast cancer patients who have had a mastectomy and were treated with anti-cancer drugs ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The results of the SUPREMO trial are in and published in @nejm.org. Results show that radiotherapy can be safely omitted as a treatment for many breast cancer patients who have had a mastectomy and were treated with anti-cancer drugs ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
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🚀 We’re hiring!
Join our team at the NKI as a Postdoc, using Quantitative Membrane Proteomics to design novel cancer immunotherapies!
Best of two worlds from the Voest and Lindeboom Labs.
Cutting-edge proteomics, translational immunotherapy and world-class instrumentation? let’s connect! 🔬💡
Join our team at the NKI as a Postdoc, using Quantitative Membrane Proteomics to design novel cancer immunotherapies!
Best of two worlds from the Voest and Lindeboom Labs.
Cutting-edge proteomics, translational immunotherapy and world-class instrumentation? let’s connect! 🔬💡
October 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🚀 We’re hiring!
Join our team at the NKI as a Postdoc, using Quantitative Membrane Proteomics to design novel cancer immunotherapies!
Best of two worlds from the Voest and Lindeboom Labs.
Cutting-edge proteomics, translational immunotherapy and world-class instrumentation? let’s connect! 🔬💡
Join our team at the NKI as a Postdoc, using Quantitative Membrane Proteomics to design novel cancer immunotherapies!
Best of two worlds from the Voest and Lindeboom Labs.
Cutting-edge proteomics, translational immunotherapy and world-class instrumentation? let’s connect! 🔬💡
Thanks to KWF Dutch Cancer Society Esther Lips and her colleagues will be able to continue their search to find out which women with DCIS will require treatment and which do not ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
November 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thanks to KWF Dutch Cancer Society Esther Lips and her colleagues will be able to continue their search to find out which women with DCIS will require treatment and which do not ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
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#EANO2025 was a blast! Thanks to the travel grant of the Utrecht CEN PhD program, I could present our work on the blood-brain barrier in brain metastases 🧠🔬
October 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#EANO2025 was a blast! Thanks to the travel grant of the Utrecht CEN PhD program, I could present our work on the blood-brain barrier in brain metastases 🧠🔬
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Are you excited to uncover the molecular mechanisms of actin filament assemblies that drive cell migration using cryo-EM?
Only 1.5 week to apply for this exciting PhD position in my newly established lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam: www.werkenbijavl.nl/vacatures/ph...
Only 1.5 week to apply for this exciting PhD position in my newly established lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam: www.werkenbijavl.nl/vacatures/ph...
PhD Student – Structural Biology of Actin Filament Assemblies | Werken bij AVL
www.werkenbijavl.nl
October 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Are you excited to uncover the molecular mechanisms of actin filament assemblies that drive cell migration using cryo-EM?
Only 1.5 week to apply for this exciting PhD position in my newly established lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam: www.werkenbijavl.nl/vacatures/ph...
Only 1.5 week to apply for this exciting PhD position in my newly established lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam: www.werkenbijavl.nl/vacatures/ph...
What if parts of our DNA accidentally end up in the wrong place? What can be bad for healthy cells could be an advantage for tumor cells, observed PhD candidate Soufyan Lakbir, who loves his experiments.
Soufyan Lakbir will defend his thesis on October 29 ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
Soufyan Lakbir will defend his thesis on October 29 ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
October 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What if parts of our DNA accidentally end up in the wrong place? What can be bad for healthy cells could be an advantage for tumor cells, observed PhD candidate Soufyan Lakbir, who loves his experiments.
Soufyan Lakbir will defend his thesis on October 29 ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
Soufyan Lakbir will defend his thesis on October 29 ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
Big congrats to the MARI team for winning the NKI Patient Impact Award! Their work helps breast cancer patients avoid unnecessary surgery. 💙 #NKI #BreastCancer #Innovation
Read more ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
Read more ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Big congrats to the MARI team for winning the NKI Patient Impact Award! Their work helps breast cancer patients avoid unnecessary surgery. 💙 #NKI #BreastCancer #Innovation
Read more ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
Read more ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
#ESMO2025 kicks off in Berlin!
Our NKI team is in Berlin to share research, lead discussions, and connect with oncology experts from around the world. 💙 #Oncology #CancerResearch
See all NKI input: bit.ly/4okZxXF
Our NKI team is in Berlin to share research, lead discussions, and connect with oncology experts from around the world. 💙 #Oncology #CancerResearch
See all NKI input: bit.ly/4okZxXF
October 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#ESMO2025 kicks off in Berlin!
Our NKI team is in Berlin to share research, lead discussions, and connect with oncology experts from around the world. 💙 #Oncology #CancerResearch
See all NKI input: bit.ly/4okZxXF
Our NKI team is in Berlin to share research, lead discussions, and connect with oncology experts from around the world. 💙 #Oncology #CancerResearch
See all NKI input: bit.ly/4okZxXF
🧬 We are very proud: Our scientific director @thijnbrummel.bsky.social has received the Spinoza Prize, the highest distinction in Dutch science. Thijn’s groundbreaking genetic research helps uncover how cancer cells work ➡️ bit.ly/494IXXH
#SpinozaPrize #Science #Research #Innovation #CancerResearch
#SpinozaPrize #Science #Research #Innovation #CancerResearch
October 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🧬 We are very proud: Our scientific director @thijnbrummel.bsky.social has received the Spinoza Prize, the highest distinction in Dutch science. Thijn’s groundbreaking genetic research helps uncover how cancer cells work ➡️ bit.ly/494IXXH
#SpinozaPrize #Science #Research #Innovation #CancerResearch
#SpinozaPrize #Science #Research #Innovation #CancerResearch
🎓 Immunotherapy for liver tumors seems almost impossible, but PhD candidate Christel Ramirez @unileiden.bsky.social discovered a way to prevent immune cells from being ‘bribed’ by cancer cells. She will defend her thesis on October 15 ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
🎓 Immunotherapy for liver tumors seems almost impossible, but PhD candidate Christel Ramirez @unileiden.bsky.social discovered a way to prevent immune cells from being ‘bribed’ by cancer cells. She will defend her thesis on October 15 ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
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Are exhausted T cells functionless? Absolutely not! We found that dysfunctional T cells are key initiators of early tissue responses to PD-1 blockade and equipped to rapidly regain anti-tumor function via restoration of translational control. See new preprint from the lab led by Paulien Kaptein
September 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Are exhausted T cells functionless? Absolutely not! We found that dysfunctional T cells are key initiators of early tissue responses to PD-1 blockade and equipped to rapidly regain anti-tumor function via restoration of translational control. See new preprint from the lab led by Paulien Kaptein
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Are you a postdoc looking for a new challenge and do you match the profile? Apply to join us! Especially, if you have experience with addressing the mechanisms underlying telomere maintenance, DNA replication or DNA repair. www.werkenbijavl.nl/vacatures/po...
Postdoc - Telomere and Genome Maintenance | Werken bij AVL
The research group of Jacqueline Jacobs at the division of Oncogenomics aims to identify new factors and molecular mechanisms that are critical in telomere and genome maintenance through appropriate D...
www.werkenbijavl.nl
October 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Are you a postdoc looking for a new challenge and do you match the profile? Apply to join us! Especially, if you have experience with addressing the mechanisms underlying telomere maintenance, DNA replication or DNA repair. www.werkenbijavl.nl/vacatures/po...
PhD candidate @dkloosterman.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social identified a type of macrophage that contributes to tumor growth in the brain. He and his colleagues were the first to discover how these cells develop. Daan Kloosterman will defend his thesis on October 8 www.nki.nl/news-events/...
October 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
PhD candidate @dkloosterman.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social identified a type of macrophage that contributes to tumor growth in the brain. He and his colleagues were the first to discover how these cells develop. Daan Kloosterman will defend his thesis on October 8 www.nki.nl/news-events/...
“It’s amazing to be the very first person to understand something at such a miniscule scale”.
From October 1st, junior group leader Wout Oosterheert will give a boost to fundamental cancer research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
From October 1st, junior group leader Wout Oosterheert will give a boost to fundamental cancer research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
September 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“It’s amazing to be the very first person to understand something at such a miniscule scale”.
From October 1st, junior group leader Wout Oosterheert will give a boost to fundamental cancer research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
From October 1st, junior group leader Wout Oosterheert will give a boost to fundamental cancer research at the Netherlands Cancer Institute ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
🦠 Gut bacteria behavior sheds light on cancer immunotherapy response. Researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute have now found new leads: by taking a fresh approach, they managed to uncover promising clues that could open new paths for treatment ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
September 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🦠 Gut bacteria behavior sheds light on cancer immunotherapy response. Researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute have now found new leads: by taking a fresh approach, they managed to uncover promising clues that could open new paths for treatment ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
Congrats @agamilab.bsky.social, @peeperlab.bsky.social & @thijnbrummel.bsky.social for being shortlisted in this year’s @cancergrand.bsky.social! They’ll compete for the chance to receive up to £20m to make radical progress against cancer’s toughest challenges bit.ly/41KM1DS #CancerGrandChallenges
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Congrats @agamilab.bsky.social, @peeperlab.bsky.social & @thijnbrummel.bsky.social for being shortlisted in this year’s @cancergrand.bsky.social! They’ll compete for the chance to receive up to £20m to make radical progress against cancer’s toughest challenges bit.ly/41KM1DS #CancerGrandChallenges
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#FederatedLearning enhances #prostate cancer detection https://doi.org/10.1148/ryai.240485 @rug.nl @nkinl.bsky.social #MICCAI2025 #imaging #AI #ComputerVision #MachineLearning
September 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
#FederatedLearning enhances #prostate cancer detection https://doi.org/10.1148/ryai.240485 @rug.nl @nkinl.bsky.social #MICCAI2025 #imaging #AI #ComputerVision #MachineLearning
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NEW Review of neoadjuvant #immunotherapy in melanoma by Francesca Fallarino & Christian Blank @nkinl.bsky.social discusses where the field is heading next in terms of understanding immune education in therapy resistance and biomarker-driven personalization
#immunology #oncology #cancer #melanoma
#immunology #oncology #cancer #melanoma
Lessons from neoadjuvant immunotherapy in melanoma: understanding antitumour immunity and tumour escape - Nature Reviews Immunology
Neoadjuvant (chemo)immunotherapy has become a new standard-of-care option for patients with cancer. This Perspective discusses the lessons learnt for neoadjuvant immunotherapy in the context of melano...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
NEW Review of neoadjuvant #immunotherapy in melanoma by Francesca Fallarino & Christian Blank @nkinl.bsky.social discusses where the field is heading next in terms of understanding immune education in therapy resistance and biomarker-driven personalization
#immunology #oncology #cancer #melanoma
#immunology #oncology #cancer #melanoma
We scrambled the genome. What happens when you cut, flip, and relocate DNA at scale?
🧬 A new method from the Netherlands Cancer Institute reveals surprising rules of genome organization. Publications in Science & Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Read more ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
🧬 A new method from the Netherlands Cancer Institute reveals surprising rules of genome organization. Publications in Science & Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Read more ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
September 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We scrambled the genome. What happens when you cut, flip, and relocate DNA at scale?
🧬 A new method from the Netherlands Cancer Institute reveals surprising rules of genome organization. Publications in Science & Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Read more ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
🧬 A new method from the Netherlands Cancer Institute reveals surprising rules of genome organization. Publications in Science & Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Read more ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/...
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CCE kicks off its first Exchange Program! Adrià Marcos @vhio.bsky.social trained at @nkinl.bsky.social,
and Zuhir Elkarghali (NKI) will soon join VHIO. Strengthening collaboration across #CCE 🚀
@nct-heidelberg.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @ki.se @crukcamcentre.bsky.social
and Zuhir Elkarghali (NKI) will soon join VHIO. Strengthening collaboration across #CCE 🚀
@nct-heidelberg.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @ki.se @crukcamcentre.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 5:37 AM
CCE kicks off its first Exchange Program! Adrià Marcos @vhio.bsky.social trained at @nkinl.bsky.social,
and Zuhir Elkarghali (NKI) will soon join VHIO. Strengthening collaboration across #CCE 🚀
@nct-heidelberg.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @ki.se @crukcamcentre.bsky.social
and Zuhir Elkarghali (NKI) will soon join VHIO. Strengthening collaboration across #CCE 🚀
@nct-heidelberg.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @ki.se @crukcamcentre.bsky.social
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Check out our spotlight article on an exciting study! Lipid-sensing chemosensors influence macrophage behavior.
Really enjoyed reflecting on this work and what it could mean for macrophage targeting approaches! 😊
Really enjoyed reflecting on this work and what it could mean for macrophage targeting approaches! 😊
‘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.
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September 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Check out our spotlight article on an exciting study! Lipid-sensing chemosensors influence macrophage behavior.
Really enjoyed reflecting on this work and what it could mean for macrophage targeting approaches! 😊
Really enjoyed reflecting on this work and what it could mean for macrophage targeting approaches! 😊