News
News from the lab
Congratulations to Yichao Hua: he successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Unraveling the ontogeny, regulation and function of intratumoral high endothelial venules to enhance immunotherapy”
Gerlanda Vella successfully defended her PhD thesis on “How high endothelial venules support anti-tumoral immunity in cancer”. Congrats Dr Vella!
Our publication on HEV's tumors in Cancer Cell was picked up by Belgian National Press - read more
Gabriele was co-organizer of the VIB Conference "Recent insights into Immuno-Oncology" in Leuven - read more
Together with Patrizia Agostinis and Colinda Scheele, Gabriele Bergers obtained an FWO EOS research project grant (in collaboration with University of Liège and UCL) on "Unravelling the molecular programs that control the de novo formation of high endothelial venules"
Congratulations to Dorothy John Robbert for obtaining a Kom Op Tegen Kanker/Emmanuel Vander Schueren starting grant
Gabriele Bergers hosted a talk by Dr David Lyden (Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, USA) on "Extracellular Vesicles and Particle Biomarkers for Early Cancer Detection" (May)
The Bergers lab received a 4-year research grant from the FWO, for the project "Unravelling the molecular programs that control the de novo formation of high endothelial venules"
December: Together with Patrizia Agostinis, Gabriele Bergers obtained internal funding from KU Leuven for 5 years , for the project "Autophagy in inflammation and inflammatory diseases (ATLANTIS), from fundamental mechanisms to novel experimental therapies"
October: Congratulations to Carla Pallares Moratalla for obtaining an FWO grant!
March: Read our newest publication in Nature Reviews Cancer: "The metabolism of cancer cells during metastasis" (G Bergers and S-M Fendt)
September: Read our review in Frontiers in Immunology: Tumors vs. Chronic Wounds: An Immune Cell's Perspective (Y. Hua and G. Bergers)
July: Congratulations to Dr Mélanie Guyot on obtaining a Fundamental Mandate from the Foundation Against Cancer
The Bergers Lab received an FWO research grant for the project "Vascular immunomodulation in cancer"
Gabriele Bergers joined the VIB Center for Cancer Biology as Groupleader/Head of the Lab of Tumor Microenvironment and Therapeutic Resistance
Gabriele Bergers received the Judah Folkman Award. This award recognizes outstanding contributions from vascular biologists who are at mid-career (within fifteen years of their first faculty appointment). Read more
Lectures
Future Lectures
Future Lectures
2023
3-4 October: VIB conference Tumor Heterogeneity, Plasticity and Therapy, Leuven, Belgium
1-5 November: SITC 2023, San Diego, US
2024
15 May: 2024 GOPA-PETRA Seminar, Marseille, France
Past Lectures
Past Lectures
2023
6-8 September: BACR Tumour Microenvironment & 3D Model Workshop, Nottingham, UK
10-12 August: SNO/ASCO CNS Cancer Conference, San Francisco, US
14-19 April: AACR Annual Meeting, Orlando, US
13 March: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Brain Tumor Center Seminar Series 2023, New York, US
2022
13 - 17 Oct: International Vascular Biology Meeting, San Francsico, CA
5 - 7 Sep: CRUK Brain Tumour Conference, London, UK
29 Jun: Gerhard Christofori Retirement Symposium (Departement Biomedizin Basel), Basel, Switzerland
19-20 May: Brain Tumor Meeting, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
2021
16 November: French Angiogenesis Society, Nantes, France
24-27 September: 11th International Kloster Seeon Meeting "Angiogenesis": Molecular Mechanisms and Functional Interactions
28-31 August: ISREC-SCCL Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland
3 July: SFB1335 Women in Science Symposium, Munich, Germany
9 - 10 March: Unito-Polito Conference Series in Cancer “Nanoscience in Cancer Immunotherapy”, Turin, Italy (virtual)
2020
9 - 12 September: 21st International Vascular Biology Meeting, Seoul, Republic of Korea
25 - 29 October: NAVBO Rhode Island
2019
22 January: Lecture Series in Cancer Research, Luxembourg
15 - 19 March: Keystone Symposia Conference on “Cancer Metastasis: The Role of Metabolism, Immunity and the Microenvironment”, Florence, Italy
29 March - 3 April: AACR Annual Meeting
1 - 3 July: BACR Conference - Tumour Microenvironment, Nottingham, UK
24 July: Marshall Symposium - CRUK, Sussex, UK
19 - 22 September: 14th EANO meeting, Lyon, France
23 - 28 September: 6th International Conference on Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress, Crete, Greece
7 - 9 October: Seed and Soil:Mechanisms of Metastasis, Berlin, Germany
25 - 27 October: GfMVG Meeting in Heidelberg, Germany (Keynote speaker)
11 - 14 December: ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress 2019, Geneva, Switzerland