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TANDEM 2024
An article on the isrec webpage about our lab: isrec article Our lab has been selected for the TANDEM project with Prof. Walter Paul Weber. And for the occasion a video with our lab members :
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Congratulations to Dr. Zora!!
Congrats to our new Dr!!! Dr Zora Baumann defended yesterday! All the best for the next steps in your career!
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Congrats to Dr. Madhuri!!!
Congratulations to Madhuri for a successful PhD thesis defense! We wish you the best for the next steps of your career!
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Lab Scientific Meeting 2024
Every year the lab gather at our lab retreat, this time it was in Heraklion in April. Three days of intensive discussion and great science!
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Welcome to our new PhDs Ana and Rebecca!
Before starting her PhD, Ana completed a Bachelor’s in Biology at the University of Oviedo, focusing on alternative splicing patterns in acute myeloid leukemia. She then pursued a Master’s in Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Bern, where her thesis explored gene transcription modulation and lactate production by hexokinase 3 in leukemia. Afterward, She…
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Single-cell Analysis Reveals Inter- and Intratumour Heterogeneity in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Congratulations to Baptiste, Atul and Milan and their co-authors for the publication of their paper on single cell analysis, if you want to have a look please press here Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths of breast cancer patients. Some cancer cells in a tumour go through successive steps, referred to as the metastatic…
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Walk of Hope – Together against breast cancer
On Saturday, 28.10.2023, we teamed up with local, national and international initiatives for the Walk of Hope to provide the public first-hand insights into early detection, treatment and research of breast cancer. It was exciting to interact with so many interested people at our interactive booths. All the questions we were asked and especially the…
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The Bentires-Alj group is proudly joining the Walk of Hope
Clinicians, breast care nurses, researchers and patient advocates inform about early detection, treatment and research of breast cancer. Join too and support breast cancer research to establish personalized, less burdensome and more effective treatments for the patients. Click here for further information.
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Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase sustains a core epigenetic program that promotes metastatic colonization in breast cancer
Congratulations to Joana, Milica, Charly and the co-authors of our latest publication in EMBO Journal!!! In this study, we unveil a mechanism of colonization in the aggressive basal-like subtype of breast cancer that is driven by the metabolic enzyme nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT). NNMT expression is associated with poor clinical outcome in breast cancer patients and…
