Daria Afenteva
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Daria Afenteva
@afenteva.bsky.social
🎓 PhD student in Biomedicine
📍 University of Helsinki, Finland
🧬 Ovarian cancer researcher
🏃‍♀️ Skier and runner
🙏 Warm thanks to our collaborators across University of Helsinki, Karolinska Institutet, Turku University Hospital, and many others. Above all, to DECIDER patients and their families.

🏫 Special thanks to my supervisor Sampsa Hautaniemi and @tarumuranen.bsky.social for your mentorship!

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August 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🧠 We find that type-I interferon response in cancer cells is diminished at diagnosis in HGSC tumours that are intrinsically resistant to first-line chemotherapy, suggesting a biomarker-guided interferon-platinum combination. Exogenous interferon alpha sensitised cancer cells to platinum.

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August 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thanks Kari!
August 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM