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The ICI Amsterdam-Leiden-Nijmegen cancer vaccine consortium
7 April 2020The Chemical Immunology group from Martijn Verdoes, theme Nanomedicine, joined forces with two Organic Chemistry groups and a Chemical Biology group from Leiden University, and Immunology groups at the AmsterdamUMC and the LUMC to form a consortium to develop new cancer vaccines.
HFSP Grant for Johannes Textor
30 March 2020Johannes Textor, theme Cancer development and immune defense, has been awarded a program grant of 1 million US dollars by The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) to investigate how T cells navigate extremely dense environments using experiments, modeling and methods from pedestrian dynamics.
Human pDCs attract cytolytic lymphocytes in anti-cancer vaccination
6 February 2020RIMLS researchers Jasper van Beek and Jolanda de Vries, theme Cancer development and immune defense, discovered that pDCs can efficiently recruit cytolytic immune effector cells, a property that could be exploited in anti-cancer vaccines. They have published these findings in Cell Reports.
ZonMw funding for teams of Michiel Vermeulen and Jolanda de Vries
4 February 2020The awarded research projects of RIMLS researchers Michiel Vermeulen, Jolanda de Vries, Gerty Schreibelt and Martijn Verdoes and colleagues will initiate new research lines and collaborations between various research groups.
Niels Stensen Fellowship for Jorieke Weiden
6 January 2020Jorieke Weiden was recently awarded a grant from the Niels Stensen Fellowship. Since the 1960s, the Niels Stensen Fellowship has been awarded annually to outstanding researchers who recently received their PhD to enable them to gain research experience at a top university or institute abroad.
Galectin-9 controls plasma membrane integrity of dendritic cells
16 December 2019Laia Querol Cano, theme Cancer development and immune defense, has discovered how galectin-9, a sugar-binding membrane organiser, governs dendritic cell function by intracellularly modulating actin cytoskeleton. These findings are published in the latest issue of iScience.
New insights into the initiation of T cell responses in the spleen
11 December 2019Carl Figdor and colleagues, theme Cancer development and immune defense, provide insights into the initiation of T cell responses in the spleen and their consequences for T cell differentiation. They have published their results in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
New technique boosts preclinical antibody research
30 August 2019Martijn Verdoes, theme Nanomedicine, and Bas van der Schoot, theme Cancer development and immune defense, developed a technique to engineer and produce antibodies quickly, easily and cheaply. The researchers published their results in the open access journal Science Advances.
Publication in Blood on CD37 mutations in lymphoma
26 August 2019Suraya Elfrink, in Annemiek van Spriel's research group Immune cell signaling, theme Cancer development and immune defense, published a manuscript in Blood reporting that tetraspanin CD37 is frequently mutated in patients with diffuse large B cell lymphoma occurring at immune-privileged sites.
Three VIDI grants for RIMLS researchers
24 May 2019Matthijs Jore, Daniele Tauriello and Johannes Textor are each to receive up to 800,000 euros to develop an innovative research theme and to build up their own research group. NWO is awarding the Vidi grant as part of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme.
A personal touch of Georgina Flórez Grau
10 March 2019In order to promote interaction amongst colleagues within RIMLS, we have a ‘personal touch’ series setting employees in the spotlight. A light-hearted manner to learn about the colleagues you know and those you don’t! This week: Georgina Flórez Grau.
