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Category: Posts

23Dec

Oncology Research Center day 2022

by Isabelle Houbracken in Posts, Prizes and awards
After two years of organising an online version of the ORC day, this year on 22 December the annual ORC day 2022 was organized at VUB campus Jette. Both international...
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28Jun

Public PhD Defence Kim De Nooijer

by Isabelle Houbracken in PhD Defence
The public PhD defence of Kim DE NOOIJER entitled “Specialised palliative home care for older people: towards a new service model” will take place on Friday, 8 July 2022 at...
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28Jun

Public PhD Defence Sven De Mey

by Isabelle Houbracken in PhD Defence
The public PhD defence of Sven DE MEY entitled “Barriers in radiobiology : Hypoxic radiosensitization by modifying the metabolism of the tumor” will take place on Tuesday, 28 June 2022...
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26Apr

Public PhD Defence Philippe Giron

by Isabelle Houbracken in PhD Defence
The public PhD defence of Philippe GIRON entitled “Exploiting genomic vulnerabilities in lung cancer for therapeutic targeting” will take place on Tuesday, 3 May 2022 at 5 p.m. in Auditorium...
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Prof Bart Neyns takes initiative to establish Cancer Survivor Center
10Feb

Prof Bart Neyns takes initiative to establish Cancer Survivor Center

by Isabelle Houbracken in Posts, Research
Cancer patients who have survived serious treatment and are free of the disease often suffer an enormous psychological blow afterwards and find it difficult to pick up the thread of...
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09Feb

Better communication should lead to more appropriate care for young cancer patients

by Isabelle Houbracken in Posts, Research
BOOST programme aims to help care providers listen “The goal is to improve communication between young cancer patients (between 10 and 18 years old), their parents and the medical staff,...
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T cell immunotherapy to give cancer patients hope: VUB researchers study why immunotherapy partially fails
08Feb

T cell immunotherapy to give cancer patients hope: VUB researchers study why immunotherapy partially fails

by Isabelle Houbracken in Posts, Research
The teams of VUB professors Bart Neyns, Sandra Tuyaerts and Karine Breckpot will join research groups from UCL, Bordet Institute and ULB in their search for factors that explain why...
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Predictive model should avoid need for surgery in rectal cancer
07Feb

Predictive model should avoid need for surgery in rectal cancer

by Isabelle Houbracken in Posts, Research
Two research groups from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel have established a collaboration in which they predict the response to the standard treatment for rectal cancer based on medical images (e.g....
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07Feb

Amino acid proline key to promising new treatment strategy for myeloma patients

by Isabelle Houbracken in Posts, Research
Researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, led by Prof Dr Eline Menu, have investigated how changes in metabolism contribute to cancer resistance and relapse. They identified the amino acid proline...
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07Feb

VUB researchers and start-up Esobiotec pursue affordable cancer immunotherapy

by Isabelle Houbracken in Posts, Research
In-patient cell engineering to upgrade immune cells’ capacity to identify and destroy cancer cells is the challenge taken on by the Walloon startup Esobiotec, founded by Jean-Pierre Latere, and two...
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