Pr. Cédric Blanpain received from his Majesty the King Philippe the prestigious FNRS quinquennial 2011-2015 prize

On November 2015, Pr. Cédric Blanpain was awarded from a FNRS quinquennial 2011-2015 price (the Joseph Maisin price for fundamental biomedical sciences).  Every five years, those prestigious prices award five Belgian researchers for their particularly exceptional career.

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Publication in Nature 2015 : the cells at the origin of breast cancers identified

Van Keymeulen A, Lee M.Y., Ousset M, Rorive S, Brohée S, Wuidart A, Bouvencourt G, Giraddi R, Dubois C, Salmon I, Sotiriou C, Phillips W.A., Blanpain C.
Reactivation of multipotency by oncogenic PIK3CA induces breast tumor heterogeneity.
Nature 2015  Sep 3;525(7567):119-23. doi: 10.1038/nature14665. Epub 2015 Aug 12.
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Publication in cell stem cell 2015 : Sox9 gene is a key in skin cancer

Larsimont JC, Youssef  KK, Sánchez-Danés A, Sukumaran V,  Defrance M, Delatte B; Liagre M, Marine JC, Lippens S, Guerin C, Del Marmol V, Vanderwinden JM, Fuks F & Blanpain C.  Sox9 controls renewal of oncogene targeted cells and links tumor initiation and invasion.  Cell Stem Cell. 2015 Jul 2;17(1):60-73. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2015.05.008. Epub 2015 Jun 18.
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