Kika young investigator award for René Marke

The international group of researchers spearheaded by Dick Zijlmans and Hendrik Marks together with colleagues from KU Leuven, examined which proteins are associated with the chromatin and how this affects gene transcription.

The team of Hans Jacobs pioneers on the development of personalized diagnostics to measure minimal residual disease in patients with multiple myeloma.

The European Research Council (ERC) is awarding grants to Roshan Cools and Peter Friedl, both professors at Radboudumc. While Cools will investigate how brains control behaviour in (stressful) situations, Friedl will work on developing a new cancer therapy.

Lisa Huis in ‘t Veld, Nataschja Ho and colleagues from the team of Gosse Adema published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences that Saponin-based adjuvant-induced dendritic cell cross-presentation is dependent on PERK activation.

Three researchers have received Rubicon funding from NWO/ZonMw. This will enable Elke Muntjewerff, Laura de Vries and Laurens van de Wiel to do research at a foreign research institute for the next two years.

This price is awarded each year by Kika (kinderen kankervrij) for excellent research in the area of pediatric oncology.