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A biomedical research group led by Prof. Isabelle Salmon, Head of the pathologic anatomy service at the Erasme Hospital, was granted a 1.800.000 euros subsidy in order to analyse the tumoral heterogeneity in the patients-derivated xenografts and their incidence for the specialised medicine.  The lab of stem cells and cancer is very active in this nice project.  Project presentation on the Fonds Erasme web site

Maylis Raphael has been working in the lab as a post-doctoral researcher since 2015.  The fellowship she received from EMBO, a prestigious organization of more than 1800 leading researchers that promotes excellence in the life sciences, will permit her to carry on her research on the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT).

Portrait of Pr. Cédric Blanpain by Philippe Lambert in La Recherche, n°497, March 2015.  PDF

Pr. Cédric Blanpain was invited by Ms. Christine Defraigne, President of the Belgian Senate, to give a talk during a seminar about the future of the scientific research in Belgium.  Here is the content of his intervention: PDF

Beck B, Lapouge G, Rorive S, Drogat B, Desaedelaere K, Delafaille S, Dubois C, Salmon I, Willekens K, Marine JC, Blanpain C.
Different levels of Twist1 regulate skin tumor initiation, stemness, and progression.
Cell Stem Cell. 2015 Jan 8;16(1):67-79. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2014.12.002.
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• La Libre Belgique  
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A portrait published on the web site of the Foundation ULB.

Lescroart F, Chabab S, Lin X, Rulands S, Paulissen C, Rodolosse A, Auer H, Achouri Y, Dubois C, Bondue A, Simons BD, Blanpain C.
Early lineage restriction in temporally distinct populations of Mesp1 progenitors during mammalian heart development.
Nat Cell Biol. 2014 Sep;16(9):829-40. doi: 10.1038/ncb3024. Epub 2014 Aug 24.
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Press highlight : Le Soir 

The InBev-Baillet Latour fund is one of the most important supporters of the Lab of stem cells and cancer.  For its 40th birthday, it published a book where the research and main discoveries done in the lab are detailed : PDF