Cancer Biology

“We need to start speaking the same language.”

“We need to start speaking the same language.”

A conversation with experts Damya Laoui and Chris Marine on decoding cancer’s complexity

Meet Olaf Klingbeil

Meet Olaf Klingbeil

Olaf Klingbeil joins the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology

"Find your niche and believe in it"

"Find your niche and believe in it"

A conversation with experts Bart Lambrecht and Diether Lambrechts on immune niches in cancer and inflammation

Meet group leader Jan Remsik, who studies brain metastasis

Meet group leader Jan Remsik, who studies brain metastasis

Meet Jan Remsik, a new group leader at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology. As he embarks on this exciting chapter of his career, his PhD student Alia Fazal Salom took the opportunity to ask him a few questions.

Dendritic cell atlas: roadmap to a better anti-cancer therapy

Dendritic cell atlas: roadmap to a better anti-cancer therapy

-written by Aarushi Audhut Caro, a PhD student at the VIB Center for Inflammation Research

Revealing the many faces of cancer: Pointillism, heterogeneity, and plasticity 

Revealing the many faces of cancer: Pointillism, heterogeneity, and plasticity 

A tumor is a complex ecosystem. Understanding how this ecosystem of different cell types in the tumor microenvironment works is a crucial step toward personalized, effective treatments. Meet the Pointillism 2.0 project of the VIB Grand Challenges Program and some of the insights that have inspired it.  

A new pharmaceutical target for schwannoma?

A new pharmaceutical target for schwannoma?

The team of Anna Sablina (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology) reveals how a specific mutation contributes to tumor formation

Not by the book

Not by the book

Cancer exploits the body's biological mechanisms – but differently.

Under the sea: Recent VIB research on aquatic organisms leads to cancer insights 

Under the sea: Recent VIB research on aquatic organisms leads to cancer insights 

Sometimes, scientific discoveries in disease processes come from unlikely organisms, such as cockles or diseased flatfish 

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