Robin Boiy
Doctoral fellow - Laboratory Experimental Cancer Research - Ghent University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UGent
Principal Investigator: prof. An Hendrix (PhD) and prof. Olivier De Wever (PhD)
Research focus
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanometre-sized packages that transfer lipids, membrane-associated and intraluminal proteins, and nucleic acids throughout the body influencing various physiological and pathological functions. As such, EVs can transfer information from cancer cells to neighbouring cells, but can also reach the blood stream and transfer their content to more distant cells in other organs. In this way EVs are important mediators of invasive growth and metastasis development.
I am investigating the biogenesis and function of EVs in hormone-sensitive breast cancer.
Biography
SCIENTIFIC DEGREES:
- 2013-2016: Bachelor in Bioscience Engineering (University of Antwerp).
- 2016-2018: Master in Bioscience Engineering, Cell and Gene Biotechnology (Ghent University).
- 2018-present: PhD student, Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research, Ghent University
Key publications
- ‘Transparent reporting of experimental parameters in assays measuring phenotypic steps in metastasis’. Clin. Exp. Metastasis, 2018 (PMID: 30370460)
Contact & links
- Lab address:
Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research,
Department of Human Structure and Repair,
Campus UZ Gent, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, The Core, ingang 37, 9000 Gent, Belgium - LECR