CRIG 'young investigator proof-of-concept projects’: laureates 7th call

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CRIG provides research grants for young (postdoctoral) cancer researchers at CRIG to initiate potentially high-risk and innovative cancer research projects. Thanks to the money raised during ‘De Warmste Week’ (more info), we are able to increase our project funding with 50% and thus support more projects in 2020!

In this 7th call, following postdocs were awarded, and have started their project this month:
  

  • dr. Eric de Bony de Lavergne – ‘A high-throughput CRISPR interference platform for the systematic identification of checkpoint inhibition response modulating long non-coding RNAs’  (promotor of the grant: prof. Pieter Mestdagh)

  • dr. Bieke Decaesteker – ‘The functional role of the highly conserved long noncoding RNA SILC1 in neuroblastoma development’ (promotor of the grant: prof. Frank Speleman

  • dr. Sarah Deville – ‘Direct phenotyping of extracellular vesicle subpopulations in blood plasma of breast cancer patients using asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation’ (promotor of the grant: prof. An Hendrix)

  • dr. Martijn Risseeuw – ‘CBFβ depletion using a proteolysis targeting chimaera strategy, an alternative strategy against RUNX/CBFβ driven leukemia’ (promotor of the grant: prof. Pieter Van Vlierberghe)

  • dr. Rein Verbeke – ‘Exploring the mucosal delivery route for lipid nanoparticles co-loaded with mRNA and α-GalCer to induce lung-resident memory T cells’ (promotor of the grant: prof. Stefaan De Smedt)

Despite high quality of submitted projects, unfortunately only top-ranked applications were granted. The next call for these YIPOC projects will be launched during summer this year.