October - Congratulations to Stefania Pedrotti for receiving a 4 year PhD fellowship to study the impact of chromosomal instability on mammary tumor progression

July - Congratulations to our postdoc Larissa Mourao for receiving a 4 year postdoctoral mandate from Stichting Tegen Kanker to study the dynamics of early breast cancer

May - Lookalike of an aquarium plant? Our research highlighted in Sonar! 
Link: https://stories.kuleuven.be/en/stories/lookalike-of-an-aquarium-plant
 

April - Publication alert in Cancer Cell (Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2023.04.002): Can breast cancer diagnostics be improved? We identified 2 growth patterns of ductal carcinoma in situ which can predict invasive progression into breast cancer.
Press release: http://prez.ly/7Axc VRTnws:  https://vrtnws.be/p.Pq7MeA8E4

December - Not one, but two FWO project grants for the lab! We are very excited to start working on the dynamics of liver metastasis (project 1) and the mechanics of branching (project 2).

October - Out in Nature Reviews Methods Primers: A guide for "Multiphoton Intravital Microscopy of Rodents" written by intravital microscopy enthusiasts from across the globe Nature 

October - Congratulations to Marika for receiving an FWO PhD fellowship! Marika will study the signalling dynamics of mammary gland remodelling during development and disease

September - A presentation (by Marta) and a poster prize (by Marika) at the Emerging Concepts in Cell &Developmental Biology Conference in Aarhus #ProudPI

March - Are you wondering how to generate branched murine mammary organoids? We are excited to share our methods with you: 10.3389/fphys.2022.826107
Great work by Marika, Sjanie and Larissa, congratulations!

October - It's a happy day for Marta! She receives an FWO PhD fellowship to trace the dynamics of mammary tumor initiation

Colinda Scheele received a FEBS Excellence Award with funding over 3 years.

Read the interview with Colinda in c2w: "de kankerstamcel op de hielen".

Colinda was appointed as Assistant professor at KU Leuven.

Colinda received the 2020 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek award for her extraordinary research into stem cells and the development of breast cancer. Read more

Colinda Scheele joined the VIB Center for Cancer Biology as Junior Group Leader

Colinda received the PhD of the Year award (CD&D PhD Programme), and the Bright Mind Award, Dare to Cross Over! (Utrecht University), an award for outstanding interdisciplinary research