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Professor Blanpain was awarded the prize for the best presentation of the year in the field of biology by the Gordon Research Conferences attendees (regardless the conference).
Gordon Research Conferences is an international forum which organizes dozens of conferences in this field every year.

The team led by Prof. Blanpain has been shortlisted with 11 others teams for the last step of the Grand Challenges award.  
The Plasticity-Tx project aims to construct a catalogue of cell states to uncover the mechanisms that drive cancer cell plasticity and reveal new therapeutic approaches against cancer. 
Official announcement
Press release of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (in French)

Pharmacological targeting of netrin-1 inhibits EMT in cancer.
Lengrand J, Pastushenko I, Vanuytven S, Song Y, Venet D, Sarate RM, Bellina M, Moers V, Boinet A, Sifrim A, Rama N, Ducarouge B, Van Herck J, Dubois C, Scozzaro S, Lemaire S, Gieskes S, Bonni S, Collin A, Braissand N, Allard J, Zindy E, Decaestecker C, Sotiriou C, Salmon I, Mehlen P, Voet T, Bernet A, Blanpain C.
Nature. 2023 Aug 2. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06372-2.
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Netrin-1 blockade inhibits tumour growth and EMT features in endometrial cancer.
Cassier PA, Navaridas R, Bellina M, Rama N, Ducarouge B, Hernandez-Vargas H, Delord JP, Lengrand J, Paradisi A, Fattet L, Garin G, Gheit H, Dalban C, Pastushenko I, Neves D, Jelin R, Gadot N, Braissand N, Léon S, Degletagne C, Matias-Guiu X, Devouassoux-Shisheboran M, Mery-Lamarche E, Allard J, Zindy E, Decaestecker C, Salmon I, Perol D, Dolcet X, Ray-Coquard I,Blanpain C*, Bernet A*, Mehlen P* (*last co-authors)
Nature. 2023 Aug 2. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06367-z.
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Interview with Cédric Blanpain and Alexandra Van Keymeulen in FNRS News.
Cancer : l’avenir de la recherche.  FNRS News, 128, juin 2023, p 52-55.
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RHOJ controls EMT-associated resistance to chemotherapy.
Debaugnies M, Rodriguez-Acebes S, Blondeau J, Parent MA, Zocco M, Song Y, Latil M, Dubois C, Moers M, Impens F, Van Haver D, Rorive S, Allard J, Uemura A, Sotiropoulou PA, Salmon I, Méndez J, Blanpain C.
Nature 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05838-7
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Cédric Blanpain is being given the International Society of Stem Cell Research’s Momentum Award.  This is the first time that such a prestigious award is being given to a researcher working in Europe.

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Prof Blanpain’s editorial in Fokus. Le Vif l’Express supplement, December 2023.
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Yura Song (PhD student in bioinformatics), was selected to be one of the twelve speakers of the Young scientist special session, which was co-organized by Stanford University, K-bioX (a non-profit organization of Korean scientists in USA), Department of Pharmacy – Seoul National University, College of Medicine – Catholic university of Korea, College of Medicine – Chungang University (all are located in Seoul, Korea)​.  She got third prize with the paper “NR2F2 controls malignant squamous cell carcinoma state by promoting stemness and invasion and repressing differentiation“. Federico Mauri, Corentin Schepkens,…and Cédric Blanpain. Nature Cancer, volume 2, pages 1152–1169 (2021).

Podcast of the conference given by Cédric Blanpain at Collège Belgique, Royal Academy of Belgium, Brussels, September 2022.

Cédric Blanpain crée un nouvelle société pour remplacer ChromaCure, L’Echo, vendredi 2 septembre 2022.
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