Dr. Dorien Clarisse is laureate of the 2nd Pieter Van Vlierberghe Award for best paper in oncology

Each year, CRIG launches the 'Pieter Van Vlierberghe Award', a yearly award for the best paper in oncology published by young CRIG researchers. 

This initiative is taken to honor and remember CRIG group leader Prof. Pieter Van Vlierberghe, who lost his unfair battle against cancer in 2022 (in memoriam Pieter Van Vlierberghe). Pieter has been one of the driving forces of cancer research in Ghent, made great contributions in the field of (pediatric) leukemia and lymphoma, embodied the mission of CRIG to collaborate, and was an excellent leader, motivator and friend to many of us.

In 2024, the second ‘Pieter Van Vlierberghe Award’ was given to CRIG researcher given to Dr. Dorien Clarisse for her paper ‘Crosstalk between glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors boosts glucocorticoid-induced killing of multiple myeloma cells’ (published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2023 - link to publication), opening new opportunities for improved treatment of multiple myeloma patients with less side-effects. 

Laureate Dorien Clarisse was awarded during CRIG’s OncoPoint symposium on 29 April 2024, in the presence of >200 CRIG researchers and Prof. Van Vlierberghe’s family members (see photo below).