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New strategy to tackle “don’t eat me” signal on cancer cells

a 'do not eat me' signal. Led by immunologist Ton Schumacher (Netherlands Cancer Institute and Oncode) and Ferenc Scheeren (Leiden University Medical Center), researchers from various research institutes have discovered a new method to inhibit the…

Faster journey from lab to patient

strives for. “Every patient should have access to the newest medicines, wherever you are treated in the Netherlands.”

Main equipment list

web application ‘Application and Request Tool’ (ART). ART is the online tool for e.g. study registration (human biospecimens IRBm and human data IRBd, or combi IRBdm and IRBb for biobanks), Institutional Review Board (IRB) review, lab logistics,…

NKI alumna Iris van ’t Erve: “It is important to me that my work benefits society and that it challenges me”

receive their PhDs. How do they find their way in to a career in science? A conversation with Iris van ’t Erve , about working, living, and freedom across the ocean.

Neo-adjuvant immunotherapy combination effective for non-metastatic bladder cancer

recurrence This publication is an important miles tone in our knowledge of the treatment for bladder cancer (urothelial carcinoma). Patients with this type of cancer often face a return of their illness after surgery. Treatment with immunotherapy…

Thesis defense Colinda Scheele: stem cell behavior in mammary glands

tumor - the cancer stem cells - drives a tumor to be invasive and life-threatening.

The most exhausted T-cells recognize tumor cells best

and Oncode researchers Daniela Thommen and Ton Schumacher and colleagues from Basel may have opened up a new venue for stratifying patients for cancer immunotherapy.

Introduction to R

Introduction to R fot data analysis

Medical statistics with R

Introduction to basic statistical methods useful for biomedical data analysis

Patient’s own immune cells effective as living drug for melanoma

A patient's own immune cells, expanded in to an army of billions of immune cells in a specialized laboratory, can be used as a living drug against metastatic melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer, as the TIL trial has shown. The TIL trial, the…

‘The Wings of Science’ – a story of basic research with real life impact

What do Dutch researcher and Oncode Investiga tor Rene Bernards (NKI) and British columnist and podcaster Deborah James have in common? They are both on a mission to fight cancer. Bernards’ ultimate goal is to bring his research findings to the…

Researcher Zuhir Bodalal Building Bridges: The Need for Mentors and Multidisciplinarity in Oncology

in the Department of Radiology, intended to become a trauma surgeon. This was in the days of the Libyan conflict and most of his patients had gunshot injuries or shrapnel wounds. He also received many patients with acute oncologic emergencies this…