Leukemia

Cancer arises when any given body cell starts to divide in places and at times at which this is not desirable. The abnormal cell grows out of control and has a selective advantage over its neighbors, thereby forming a tumor. The aberrant growth in most tissues results in the formation of a solid tumor. However, tumors originating in blood and bone marrow do not have a centralized location and are called ‘liquid’ tumors or blood cancer.  Leukemia is a cancer of the blood and the bone marrow. Acute leukemia arises in a hematopoietic precursor cell in the bone marrow. Depending on the nature of the originating leukemic stem cell, acute lymphoid and acute myeloid leukemia are distinguished. Chronic leukemia can originate in the blood or the bone marrow. Also here, chronic myeloid and chronic lymphoid leukemia exist. Multiple myeloma and lymphoma are other hematological malignancies. Within CRIG, both adult and childhood blood cancers are intensively studied.

Other CRIG members

• dr. Jeffrey Aalders (PhD) 
• Amin Ahmad
• dr. Sarah Bonte (PhD)
• Cristina Borin 
• dr. Elena Catanzaro (PhD)
• Michaela Cesnekova
• dr. Kasper T. Christensen (PhD) 
• Laura Corveleyn 
• Robin De Backer
• Chloë De Clercq 
• Martijn de Jong 
• dr. Jonas De Kesel (PhD) 
• dr. Robrecht De Vos (MD) 
• dr. Tamara De Vos (MD) 
• Jolien De Waele
• Lisa Demoen
• Suzan Demuynck 
• Larissa Deneweth 
• dr. Lisa Depestel (PhD)
• dr. Charlotte Derpoorter (PhD) 
• dr. Lucas Deseins (MD) 
• Isaure Dewitte 
• Inge D'Hont
• Aline Eggermont
• Chaimae El Hadri 
• dr. Igor Fijalkowski (PhD)
• Glenn  Goetgeluk 
• dr. Laura Guerrero (PhD)
• Maryam Hassan
• dr. Mattias Hofmans (MD, PhD)
• Adriana Krupa 
• dr. Kai Ling Liang (PhD) 
• dr. Siebe Loontiens (PhD)
• prof. Annemieke Madder (PhD)
• Thanos Mouchtaris-Michailidis
• Truong Nguyen 
• dr. Nicole Oatman (PhD) 
• Laure Pieters 
• prof. Bruce Poppe (MD, PhD) 
• dr. Alexandra Reekmans (MD) 
• dr. Zhiyao Ren (MD) 
• dr. Pieter Rondou (PhD)
• Wouter Sleeckx 
• Eva Terras 
• prof. Serge Van Calenbergh (PhD)
• dr. Laurens Van Camp (MD) 
• prof. Jolien Van Cleemput (DVM,PhD) 
• Yana Van Droogenbroeck
• Jolien Van Laere
• dr. Bart Van Puyvelde (PhD) 
• dr. Hannah Van Steenberge (MD) 
• dr. Maaike Van Trimpont (PhD) 
• Katrien Vandemeulebroecke 
• Jolien Vanhooren
• Imke Velghe 
• dr. Nick Verougstraete (PhD)
• Hue Vu 
• Manou Wittouck

Platforms

• Molecular Diagnostics Ghent (MDG)