8 November 2018

Kirsten Vrenken, PhD candidate in the group of Frank van Leeuwen, theme Cancer development and immune defense, has received the Tom Voûte Young Investigator Award 2018. This price is awarded each year by Kika (kinderen kankervrij) for excellent research in the area of pediatric oncology.

Kirsten presented her research about the role of EMT transcription factor Snail2 in neuroblastoma.

Although Kirsten recently switched to the Van Leeuwen group at the Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht to complete her research, she has done most of the work for her research at the Radboudumc, on the basis of a RIMLS personal grant she aquired in 2014. 

Tom Voûte Young Investigator Award 2018: link


 
  • Want to know more about these subjects? Click on the buttons below for more news.

    Pediatrics

Related news items


T cell immunity is directed by tetraspanin CD53

5 July 2022 T cells are immune cells that are key for the defense against pathogens and cancer. T cells depend on the membrane protein CD45 to initiate T cell receptor signaling, but how CD45 is controlled at the molecular level is poorly understood. read more

A single protein complex balances the very first lineage decision of cells in human: towards foetus or placenta

21 June 2022 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. read more

Dutch Society of Clinical Chemistry Science & Innovation Award for the team of Hans Jacobs

14 June 2022 The team of Hans Jacobs pioneers on the development of personalized diagnostics to measure minimal residual disease in patients with multiple myeloma. read more

European grants for groundbreaking Radboudumc research Professors Roshan Cools and Peter Friedl receive ERC Advanced Grant

26 April 2022

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.

read more

Saponin-based adjuvant-induced dendritic cell cross-presentation is dependent on PERK activation published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

20 April 2022 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. read more

Kika young investigator award for René Marke

3 October 2017 This price is handed out each year bij Kika (kinderen kankervrij) for excellent research in the area of pediatric oncology. read more