Events
April 2024 – Welcome to Beatriz Rodriguez Ortiz, visiting PhD student
April 11 – Cell reports - HIF1α-dependent uncoupling of glycolysis suppresses tumor cell proliferation - Congratulations Hamza Alkan Furkan, Anke Vandekeere, Ana Margarida Ferreira Campos, Sebastian Igelmann and Gianmarco Rinaldi
April 7– Sarah-Maria Fendt is awarded with the 2024 AACR award for outstanding achievement in basic cancer research
March 29 – Cancer Discovery - Metabolic signaling in cancer metastasis – Congratulations Sarah Krieg, Sara Isabel Fernandes, Constantinos Kolliopoulos and Ming Liu
March 13 – Breast Cancer Research and Treatment - Aging‑accumulated methylmalonic acid serum levels at breast cancer diagnosis are not associated with distant metastases – Congratulations Qi Wu, Juan Fernández-García, Patricia Altea-Manzano, Mélanie Planque and Anke Vandekeere
March 4, 2024 - Welcome to Zeyneb Koçberber, PhD Student
February 6, 2024 - Dr. Karen Vousden gave a presentation at the CCB Cancer Lecture Series 2023-2024
February 2024 Sarah-Maria Fendt is a mentor for EU-LIFE Pathfinder: Mentorship Programme for Postdoctoral Woman
January 24, 2024 - Nature Metabolism - Metabolic heterogeneity in cancer - Congratulations Margherita Demicco and Xiao-Zheng Liu
January 15, 2024 - Welcome to Philipp Willnow, Postdoc Researcher
December 12, 2023 - Dr. Sophia Lunt gave a presentation at the CCB Cancer Lecture Series 2023-2024
November, 2023 - Welcome to Fateme Safaeifard, visiting PhD student
October, 2023 - Welcome to Laura Bozal Basterra (visiting PhD student) and Camiel Corten (PhD student)
September 21, 2023 - Cell Chemical Biology - Challenges and opportunities in targeting metabolism
September, 2023 - Welcome to Aixia Chen (PhD student), Peio Azcoaga Azcoaga (Visiting PhD Student) and Janine Theile (Lab technician)
August 26, 2023 - GeroScience - Serum methylmalonic acid concentrations at breast cancer diagnosis significantly correlate with clinical frailty - Congratulations Qi Wu, Juan Fernández Garcia, Patricia Altea-Manzano, Mélanie Planque and Anke Vandekeere
July 4, 2023 - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology - Spacial Metabolomics principles and application to cancer research - Congratuations Mélanie Planque, Sebastian Igelmann and Ana Margarida Ferreira Campos
June 27, 2023 - PhD defense of Qi Wu. Congratulations Qi
June 12, 2023 - Sarah-Maria Fendt is awarded with the 51e Prix Fondation ARC Léopold Griffuel de recherche fondamentale
June 6, 2023 - Sarah-Maria Fendt is awarded with the Francqui-Collen Prize in Fundamental Medical Research
May 26, 2023 - PhD defense of Alex Cuadros. Congratulations Alex
May 25, 2023 - Congratulations to Sara Isabel Monteiro e Sousa Fernandes for being awarded with a FWO Junior Postdoctoral Researcher fellowship
May 19, 2023 - iScience - Combining the antianginal drug perhexiline with chemotherapy induces complete pancreatic cancer regression in vivo - Congratulations Mélanie Planque
April 19, 2023 - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research - Pharmacological induction of membrane lipid poly-unsaturation sensitizes melanoma to ROS inducers and overcomes acquired resistance to targeted therapy - Congratulations Mélanie Planque and Ginevra Doglioni
March 15, 2023 - eLife - Diet-induced loss of adipose hexokinase 2 correlates with hyperglycemia - Congratulations Anke Vandekeere and Mélanie Planque
March 15, 2023 - Welcome Floriana Bellandi, student from the University of Milan, Italy
March 6, 2023 - Welcome Gianmarco Rotondi, student from the University of Camerino, Italy
February 7, 2023 - Welcome Tommaso Tacchetti, Erasmus master student from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
February 6, 2023 - Sarah-Maria Fendt was interviewed by La Voz de Galicia Así es la metástasis: «El ambiente ayuda al tumor a seguir creciendo» (lavozdegalicia.es)
February 2, 2023 - Nature Cancer - A palmitate-rich metastatic niche enables metastasis growth via p65 acetylation resulting in pro-mestastatic NF-κB signaling - Congratulations Patricia Altea-Manzano, Ginevra Doglioni, Yawen Liu, Alejandro M Cuadros, Juan Fernández-García, Qi Wu, Mélanie Planque, Xiao-Zheng Liu, Joke Van Elsen, Ines Vermeire, Dorien Broekaert, H Furkan Alkan
January 27, 2023 - Science - Mitochondria metabolism sets the species-specific tempo of neuronal development - Congratulations Mélanie Planque and Anke Vandekeere
January 24, 2023 - Molecular Cancer - Molecular differences of angiogenic versus vessel co-opting colorectal cancer liver metastases at single-cell resolution - Congratulations Mélanie Planque
January 29, 2023 - Celebration of the Chinese Spring Festival, year of the rabbit
January 16, 2023 - Welcome Sarah Krieg, postdoc researcher
January 2023 - Sarah-Maria Fendt receives the ERC Proof of Concept Grant
December 15, 2022 - PhD defense of Sweta Parik. Congratulations Sweta
November 15, 2022 - Cell Reports - CD8+ T cell metabolic rewiring defined by scRNA-seq identifies a critical role of ASNS expression dynamics in T cell differentiation - Congratulations Juan Fernández-García, Sweta Parik, Patricia Altea-Manzano, Antonino Alejandro Pane, Dorien Broekaert, Joke van Elsen, Ines Vermeire, Tessa Schalley, Mélanie Planque
November 2, 2022 - Molecular Cell - Reversal of mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase 2 enables anaplerosis via redox rescue in respiration-deficient cells - Congratulations Patricia Altea-Manzano and Anke Vandekeere
October 25, 2022 - Dr. Ayelet Erez gave a presentation at the CCB Cancer Lecture Series 2022-2023
October 17, 2022 - Welcome Gabriella Dow, Lab Technician
October 11-13, 2022 - Ginevra Doglioni and Patricia Altea Manzano gave a flash talk at the 2nd EACR conference - Mechanisms to Therapies: Innovations in Cancer Metabolism
October 6, 2022 - Qi Wu received the Arti Hurria Award for her poster and was selected for a Spotlight Poster Discussion presentation at SABCS, San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
October 5, 2022 - Interview on Z-life Sciences, Kanaal Z, with Sarah-Maria Fendt and Alex Cuadros about FendtLab
October 3, 2022 - Welcome Sebastian Igelmann, postdoc researcher
September 23, 2022 - Frontiers in Oncology - GBM tumors are heterogeneous in their fatty acid metabolism and modulating fatty acid metabolism sensitizes cancer cells derived from recurring GBM tumors to temozolomide - Cogratulations Sweta Parik en Juan Fernández-García
September 23, 2022 - Frontiers in Oncology - Metabolite-derived protein modifications modulating oncogenic signaling - Congratulations Yawen Liu, Anke Vandekeere and Patricia Altea-Manzano
September 19, 2022 - Welcome Sara Isabel Fernandes, postdoc researcher
September 11, 2022 - Xiao-Zheng (Teeny) Liu was celebrated at the GILEAD Award Ceremony
September 1, 2022 - Welcome Ana Margarida Campos, Mass Spectrometry specialist
August 8, 2022 - Welcome Sarah El Kharraz, postdoc researcher
August 8, 2022 - Cancer Cell - Metastasis
August 5, 2022 - Nature Communications - Serine metabolism remodeling after platinum-based chemotherapy identifies vulnerabilities in a subgroup of resistant ovarian cancers - Congratulations Mélanie Planque, Joao Duarte and Matteo Rossi
July 26, 2022 - Cell Reports - Skeletal progenitors preserve proliferation and self-renewal upon inhibition of mitochondrial respiration by rerouting the TCA cycle - Congratulations Gianmarco Rinaldi
July 11-12, 2022 - Patricia Altea Manzano gave a presentation as an invited speaker at the workshop 'From bench to human translational research' organized by CIMUS
July 7, 2022 - Sarah-Maria Fendt has been elected as a EMBO member
July 5, 2022 - Lab celebration! We made a nice biking trip at the boundaries of Leuven closing the day with a barbeque on the terras of De Hoorn, enjoying the skyline of Leuven
July, 2022 - Nature Cell Biology - Research is a progress
June 15, 2022 - Congratulations Xiao-Zheng Liu, who received a EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship
June 15, 2022 - Congratulations Sebastian Igelman, who will join the lab in October, for receiving a EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship
June 10, 2022 - Patricia Altea Manzano gave a presentation as an invited speaker at the Beug Foundation Award Ceremony in Vienna
June, 2022 - The lab has received the Stichting Tegen Kanker - Advanced Technology equipment 2022 Grant to purchase a Desi XS Selected Series MRT
May 24, 2022, Welcome Yelyzaveta Tokmakova, Master student from Kiev University
May 18, 2022 - Nature - PHGDH heterogeneity potentiates cancer cell dissemination and metastasis - Congratulations Matteo Rossi, Patricia Altea-Manzano, Margherita Demicco, Ginevra Doglioni, Anke Vandekeere, Alejandro M Cuadros, Juan Fernández-Gacia, Mélanie Planque, Hamza Furkan Alkan, Lindsey A Broadfield, Sweta Parik, Antonino Alejandro Pane, Gianmarco Rinaldi, Ines Vermeire, Dorien Broekaert, Joke Van Elsen
May 2, 2022 - Welcome Katharina Leithner, Visiting researcher form the University of Graz
May, 2022 - Fendt Lab has received the KU Leuven C1 grant
April 18-22, 2022 - Margherita Demicco gave an excellent presentation at the Crete Conference 2022
April 4, 2022 - Welcome Zikuan Song, Master student from Leiden University
April 3-4, 2022 - Alejandro Cuadros gave an excellent poster presentation on the Metabolites in signaling and Disease Conference in Lisbon.
March 31, 2022 - Nature Metabolism - Altered propionate metabolism contributes to tumour progression and aggressiveness - Congratulations Dorien Broekaert
March 1, 2022 - Welcome Xiao-Zheng Liu, Postdoc scientist
February 3, 2022 - Celebration of the Chinese spring festival, Year of the Tiger
January 24, 2022 - Welcome Konstantinos Kolliopoulos, Postdoc scientist
January 21, 2022 - Welcome Annalisa Scopelliti, master student
January 13, 2022 - Welcome Roxana Barkhordar, master student
January 4, 2022, Cell Metabolism - Palmitic acid: Enabling the tumor's nerves - Congratulations Hamza Furkan Alkan and Patricia Alteo-Manzano
December 28, 2021 - Cell Reports - Macrophages are metabolically heterogeneous within the tumor microenvironment - Congratulations Xenia Geeraerts, Juan Fernández Garcia, Anke Vandekeere, Gianmarco Rinaldi, Mélanie Planque and Dorien Broekaert
December 17, 2021 - Secret Santa with lots of fun gifts
December 15, 2021 - Congratulations to Konstantinos Kolliopoulos, who will join the team in January, for receiving a grant from the Swedish Research Council 'International postdoc within medicine and health'.
December 14, 2021 - Delicious online holiday dinner
November 29 - December 1, 2021 - Juan Fernandez Garcia gave an excellent poster presentation on the EMBO Workshop on Cancer Immunometabolism
November 24, 2021 - Patricia Altea Manzano presented as an invited speaker at the Metabolimcs and cancer meeting in Spain
November 23, 2021 - Cell Reports - Statins affect cancer cell plasticity with distinct consequences for tumor progression and metastasis - Congratulations Mélanie Planque
November 20, 2021 - Free Radical Biology and Medicine - PCK opposes mitochondrial respiration and maintains the radox balance in starving lung cancer cells - Congratulation Mélanie Planque
November 15, 2021 - Welcome to the lab Yawen Liu, international scholar
November 8, 2021 - Welcome to the lab Ming Liu, PhD student
November 3, 2021 - Welcome to the lab Tessa Schalley, new Lab Technician
October 18, 2021 - Nature Metabolism - Nuclear PHGDH protects cancer cells from nutrient stress
October 5, 2021 - Sweta Parik gave an excellent short talk at the joint ILS conference and lipidomics forum
September 19, 2021 - CCB Summer Fest, first VIB-CCB in-person event after early 2020
August 13, 2021 - Congradulations to H. Furkan Alkan for receiving a grant from Stichting Tegen Kanker
July 14, 2021 - Congratulations to H. Furkan Alkan for receiving a project grant for "biochemical research on cancer" from Koning Boudewijnstichting
July 1, 2021 - Sarah-Maria Fendt and Patricia Altea-Manzano have won the Beug Foundation Prize for Metastasis Research
May 12, 2021 - Stem Cell Reviews and Reports - SOX9-induced generation of functional astrocytes supporting neuronal maturation in an all-human system. Congratulations Mélanie Planque
May 3, 2021 - Developmental Cell - Lipid metabolism in cancer: New perspectives and emerging mechanisms. Congratulations Linsday A. Broadfield and Antonio Alejandro Pane
May 1, 2021 - The EMBO Journal - BNIP3 promotes HIF-1alpha-driven melanoma growth by curbing intracellular iron homeostasis. Congratulations Matteo Rossi
April 1, 2021 - Cencer Research - Fat induces glucose metabolism in nontransformed liver cells and promotes liver tumorigenesis. Congratulations Lindsay A. Broadfield, João André Gonçalvees Duarte, Roberta Schmieder, Dorien Broekaert, Mélanie Planque and Kim Vriens
March 15, 2021 - Trends in Cancer - Metabolic Reprogramming in Anticancer drug Resistance: A Focus on Amino Acids
January 25-28, 2021 - Patricia Altea Manzano gave an online presentation at the at the Keystone eSymposia meeting
January 21, 2021 - Molecular Cell - In vivo evidence for serine biosynthersis-defined sensitivity of Lung metastasis,but not of primary breast tumors, to mTORC1 inhibition. Congratulations Gianmarco Rinaldi, Erica Pranzie, Joka Van ELsen, Dorien Broekaert, Mélanie Planque,Ginevra Doglioni, Patricia Altea-Manzano and Matteo Rossi
January 18, 2021 - Nature Reviews Cancer - The metabolism of cancer cells during metastasis
December 21, 2020 - News coverage by bio world on our recent publication Rinaldi et al Molecular Cell 2021
December 18, 2020 - Molecular Cell publication - In Vivo Evidence for Serine Biosynthesis-Defined Sensitivity of Lung Metastasis, but Not of Primary Breast Tumors, to mTORC1 Inhibition. Congratulations Gianmarco, Joke, Dorien, Mélanie, Ginevra, Patricia and Matteo.
December 1, 2020 - Sarah-Maria Fendt was invited to the awards ceremony of the Baillet Latour health prize and grant for medical research
November 20, 2010 - Gianmarco Rinaldi defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Gianmarco!
November 2, 2020 - Review Cancer Discovery - Targeting Metabolic Plasticity and Flexibility Dynamics for Cancer Therapy
October 27, 2020 - New collaborative Journal of Biological Chemistry - In Crystallo Screening for Proline Analog Inhibitors of the Proline Cycle Enzyme PYCR1. Congratulations Anke!
October 8, 2020 - Anke Vandekeere received a FWO PhD fellowship. Congratulations, Anke!
September 17, 2020 - Congratulations to Anke Vandekeere on winning the second Best Master Thesis Award for Biomedical Sciences at KU Leuven's Faculty of Medicine!
August 19, 2020 - New collaborative Nature - Age-induced accumulation of methylmalonic acid promotes tumour progression - Congratulations, Juan, Dorien and Mélanie to your co-authorship!
August 19, 2020 - New Nature publication - Cancer cells stock up in lymph vessels to survive
July 23, 2020 - New collaborative Cancer Research - Pyrvinium pamoate induces death of triple-negative breast cancer stem-like cells and reduces metastases through effects on lipid anabolism. Congratulations, Mélanie to your co-authorship!
July 2020 - Sarah-Maria Fendt received the Fonds Baillet Latour 2020 Medical Research Grant
June 24, 2020 - Juan Fernandez Garcia received a FWO senior postdoc fellowship. Congratulations Juan!
June 23, 2020 - New Cell Reports publication - mTOR Signaling and SREBP Activity Increase FADS2 Expression and Can Activate Sapienate Biosynthesis. Congratulations to Mouna, Gianmarco, Melanie, Dorien, Anke and Joke!
June 2, 2020 - New collaborative Cell Metabolism publication- Endothelial Lactate Controls Muscle Regeneration from Ischemia by Inducing M2-like Macrophage Polarization. Congratulations, Mélanie to your co-authorship!
May 28, 2020 - New collaborative Developmental Cell publication - Glutamine Metabolism Controls Chondrocyte Identity and Function. Congratulations, Gianmarco to your 2nd authorship!
May 19, 2020 - New collaborative Nature Communications publication - 2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase regulates lipid homeostasis in treatment-resistant prostate cancer. Congratulations, Mélanie to your co-authorship!
May 14, 2020 - New collaborative Circulation research - Role of the GLUT1 Glucose Transporter in Postnatal CNS Angiogenesis and Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity. Congratulations, Kim to your co-authorship!
March 13, 2020 - New collaborative Nature Communications publication - Amino acid levels determine metabolism and CYP450 function of hepatocytes and hepatoma cell lines. Congratulations, Ilaria, Ginevra, Kim and Matteo to your co-authorship!
March 1, 2020 - New Trends in Biochemical Sciences publication: Stable Isotopes for Tracing Mammalian-Cell Metabolism In Vivo. Congratulations Juan, Patricia and Erica!
March, 2020 - Alex Cuadros received a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship. Congratulations Alex!
February 17, 2020 - New Collaborative Nature Immunology publication: CD36-mediated metabolic adaptation supports regulatory T cell survival and function in tumors. Congratulations, Juan to your co-authorship!
February 10, 2020 - Preview by Sarah-Maria Fendt and Sophia Y. Lunt to E. Chang et. al on Dynamic ROS Regulation by TIGAR: Balancing Anti-cancer and Pro-metastasis Effects in Cancer Cell - Dynamic ROS Regulation by TIGAR: Balancing Anti-cancer and Pro-metastasis Effects.
February 7, 2020 - Patricia Altea Manzano presented at the BACR annual meeting
January 1, 2020 - New Methods in Molecular Biology publication: Analyzing the metabolism of metastasis in mice. Congratulations Patricia, Dorien, Joao, Juan and Mélanie!
December 18, 2019 - Sarah-Maria Fendt received FWO Project grant.
September 12, 2019 - New collaborative Nature Communications publication: Differentiation but not ALS mutations in FUS rewires motor neuron metabolism.
September, 2019 - Ginevra Doglioni received a FWO PhD fellowship. Congratulations, Ginevra!
September, 2019 - Matteo Rossi received a Stichting tegen Kanker senior postdoc fellowship. Congratulations, Matteo!
July 11, 2019 - New BMC Biology publication: Metabolic vulnerabilities of metastasizing cancer cells
June 11, 2019 - New collaborative Nature Communications publication: Translatome analysis reveals altered serine and glycine metabolism in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells. Congratulations Gianmarco and Melánie!
April 24, 2019 - New Frontiers in Oncology publication: Interactions in the (Pre)metastatic Niche Support Metastasis Formation. Congratulations Ginevra and Sweta!
March 26, 2019 - New collaborative Nature Reviews publication: Navigating the metabolic pathways to enhance antitumour immunity and immunotherapy
March 11, 2019 - Media response to our Nature publication: VIB, Cancer Discovery Research Watch, Drug discovery today, ecancer News, Nature Research Highlight
February 27, 2019 - New Nature publication: Breast cancer cells rely on environmental pyruvate to shape the metastatic niche. Congratulations Ilaria, Matteo, Ginevra, Dorien, Marit and Carmen!
February 26, 2019 - New collaborative Cell Reports publication: HIF1alpha Suppresses Tumor Cell proliferation throught Inhibition of Aspartate Biosynthesis. Congratulations Doriane and Gianmarco!
February 7, 2019 - Media response to our Nature publication: VIB, Despecialist, HLN, Nieuwsblad, News in Brief in Cancer Discovery and News and Views Nature
February 7, 2019 - New Nature publication: Evidence for an alternative fatty acid desaturation pathway increasing cancer plasticity. Congratulations Kim, Stefan, Sweta, Dorien, Matteo, Gianmarco, Juan and João!
February, 2019 - Patricia Altea-Manzano receives Marie Curie postdoc fellowship. Congratulations, Patricia!
January 16, 2019 - New collaborative Nature publication: HIF-1a metabolically controls collagen synthesis and modification in chondrocytes. Congratulations, Gianmarco!
December 16, 2013 – UroToday publishes ‘Beyond the Abstract’ feature about the publication on metformin and prostate cancer metabolism
December 13, 2013 – Sarah-Maria Fendt received Odysseus II grant
December 11, 2013 – Sarah-Maria Fendt joined the Editorial Board of Molecular Metabolism
December 9, 2013 – Kick-Off meeting with Bayer Pharmaceuticals
December 9, 2013 Doriane Lorendeau received Marie Curie Omics @ VIB postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations, Doriane!
July 31, 2013 – New publication: "Reductive glutamine metabolism is a function of the alpha-ketoglutarate to citrate ratio in cells"
June 26, 2013 - 1st Metabolism Mini Symposium @ VRC featuring cancer metabolism and neurometabolism
May 29, 2013 – Sarah-Maria Fendt received CIG grant
May 20, 2013 – The publication on metformin and prostate cancer metabolism has been featured at MDLinx
May 17, 2013 – New publication: "Metformin decreases glucose oxidation and increases the dependency of prostate cancer cells on reductive glutamine metabolism"
May 09, 2013 – New publication: "The mTORC1 pathway stimulates glutamine metabolism and cell proliferation by repressing SIRT4"
October 2018 - New publications in Methods in Molecular Biology edited by Sophia Y Lunt and Sarah-Maria Fendt: 13C trancer analysis and metabolomics in 3D cultured cancer cells; Measuring in vivo tissue metabolomics using 13C glucose infusions in mice; Assessing the impact of the nutrient microenvironment on the metabolism of effector CD8 T cells. Congratulations, Marit, Ilaria, Dorien and Juan!
September 26, 2018 - Marit van Gorsel receives an Academische Stichting Leuven travel grant for her participation in the 4th YPI Crete conference on Cell Biology, Cancer and Beyond
September 26, 2018 - Sweta Parik receives a VUB travel grant for her participation in the 4th YPI Crete conference on Cell Biology, Cancer and Beyond
August 20 - New collaborative Cell Metabolism publication: Quiescent Endothelial Cells Upregulate Fatty Acid beta-Oxidation for Vasculoprotection via Redox Homeostasis. Congratulations Ilaria
July, 2018 - Ginvevra Doglioni recieves a Kom op tegen Kanker starters fellowship. Congratulations, Ginevra!
June 27, 2018 - New collaborative Nature Comunications publication: Sustained SREBP-1-dependent lipogenesis as a key mediator of resistance to BRAF-targeted therapy. Congratulations João!
June 23, 2018 - New collaborative Leukemia publication: The ribosomal RPL10 R98S mutation drives IRES-dependent BCL-2 translation in T-ALL. Congratulations Gianmarco!
May 8, 2018 - New Trends in Cell Biology publication: Metabolic Hallmarks of Metastasis Formation. Congratulations Ilaria and Ginevra!
April 30, 2018 - New collaborative Biochemistry publication: "The Proline Cycle as a Potential Cancer Therapy Target"
November 28, 2017 - Sarah-Maria Fendt received a Consolidator ERC Grant!
November 22, 2017 - Sarah-Maria Fendt received a FWO Research Project grant and a FWO Krediet aan Navorser grant!
October 18, 2017 - Ilaria Elia defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Ilaria!
September 12, 2017 - 5th CCB Metabolism Mini Symposium, Leuven
August 30, 2017 - New Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine publication - Metabolic interactions in cancer: cellular metabolism at the interface between the microenvironment, the cancer cell phenotype and the epigenetic landscape. Congratulations, Gianmarco and Matteo!
July 19, 2017 - New collaborative Nature Immunology publication: "Alpha - Ketoglutarate orchestrates macrophage activation through metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming". Congratuations, Stefan!
July 12, 2017- Marit van Gorsel received a Kom op tegen Kanker starters fellowship! Congratulations, Marit!
July 4, 2017 - New Frontiers Endocrinology publication: "Is There a Therapeutic Window for Metabolism-Based Cancer Therapies?"
June 28, 2017- Juan Fernandez Garcia received a FWO postdoc fellowship. Congratulations, Juan!
May 13, 2017 - Media response to our Nature Communications publication: De Redactie, EngineeringNet, RTBF, VIB, Medicalxpress, Flander Today, and News Medical
May 11, 2017 - New Nature Communications publication: “Proline metabolism supports metastasis formation an could be inhibited to selectively target metastasizing cancer cells” Congratulations, Ilaria, Dorien and Stefan!
April 19, 2017 - Ilaria Elia has received a Broaden Your Horizon KU Leuven travel grant for the Keystone Symposia - Tumor Metabolism: Mechanisms and Targets. Congratulations, Ilaria!
March 15, 2017 - Check our latest JCB publication: Neurons eat glutamate to stay alive
March 15, 2017 - New Frontiers in Immunology publication: Macrophage Metabolism As Therapeutic Target for Cancer, Atherosclerosis, and Obesity. Congratulations, Xenia!
January 31, 2017 - New JCB publication: "Cardiolipin promotes electron transport between ubiquinone and complex I to rescue PINK1 deficiency". Congratulations, Matteo on your co-authorship!
January 16, 2017 - Sarah-Maria Fendt received a Grants4Targets award from Bayer Global.
December 27, 2016 - Ilaria Elia has received a travel grant from the Academische Stichting Leuven for her participation in the Civita Retreat. Congratulations Ilaria!
December 26, 2016 - New Nature Publication: "The role of fatty acid Beta-oxidation in lymphangiogenesis"
November 25, 2016 - Read about out latest findings at VIB
November 22, 2016 - Ilaria Elia received a travel grant for the Keystone Symposia - Tumor Metabolism: Mechanisms and Targets. Congratulations Ilaria!
November 21, 2016 - New Translational Cancer Research publication: "In vivo cancer metabolism is defined by the nutrient microenvironment". Congratulations, Ilaria!
November 19, 2016 - Interview with Sarah-Maria Fendt and Stefan Christen about our new Cell Reports publication
November 12, 2016 - New Metabolic Engineering publication: "Dual loss of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and complex I activity is necessary to recapitulate the metabolic phenotype of SDH mutant tumors". Congratulations Doriane, Gianmarco, Kristine and Stefan!
November 8, 2016 - Kim received a ASEICA Fellowship to cover the registration costs of the EMBO Metabolism Conference. Congratulations Kim!
October 19, 2016 - First VIB Cancer Biology Retreat at the Irish College, Leuven
October, 2016 - Media response to our Cell Reports publication: VTM nieuws, De Morgen, VIB
October 11, 2016 - New Cell Reports publication: "Breast Cancer-Derived Lung Metastases Show Increased Pyruvate Carboxylase-Dependent Anaplerosis". Congratulations Stefan, Doriane, Roberta, Dorien, Kristine and Ilaria!
October 5, 2016 – 20 years VIB celebration
September 23, 2016 – Ilaria Elia received award for the best short talk at the Cancer & Metabolism symposium. Congratulations, Ilaria!”
September - New publication: Breast cancer-derived lung metastases show increased pyruvate carboxylase-dependent anaplerosis. Congratulations, Stefan and Doriane!
September 14, 2016 - Kim received a FWO travel grant. Congratulations Kim!
September 6-7, 2016 – VCR Metabolism Mini Symposium
June 22, 2016 - Matteo Rossi, João Duarte and Gianmarco Rinaldi received a FWO Fellowship. Congratulations, Matteo, João, and Gianmarco!
February, 2016 – New publication: Integration of omics: more than the sum of its parts. Congratulations, Jörg!
January, 2016 – New publication: "HIF-1alfa Promotes Glutamine-Mediated Redox Homeostasis and Glycogen-Dependent Bioenergetics to Support Post-implantation Cell Survival".
January, 2016 – New publication: "Identification of a small molecule inhibitor of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase to target serine biosynthesis in cancers". Congratulations, Stefan on your co-authorship!
January 7, 2016 – New publication: "Deletion or Inhibition of the Oxygen Sensor PHD1 Protects against Ischemic Stroke via Reprogramming of Neuronal Metabolism". Congratulations, Roberta and Dorien on your co-authorship!
December 17, 2015 – VRC Retreat. Congratulations, Raquel and Kristine, for the very nice retreat organization!
December 17, 2015 – Doriane Lorendeau received extansion of her Marie Curie Omics @ VIB postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations, Doriane!
November 9, 2015 – New publication: "Highly proliferative primitive fetal liver hematopoietic stem cells are fueled by oxidative metabolic pathways". Congratulations, Dorien on your co-authorship!
October 25, 2015 – VIB Biotechnology Day
September 27, 2015 – Xenia Geeraerts received L'Oréal UNESCO - Women In Science fellowship. Congratulations, Xenia!
August 1, 2015 – Current Opinion in Biotechnology: Systems Biology (Vol34), edited by Costas Maranas and Sarah-Maria Fendt
July 3, 2015 – Gianmarco Rinaldi received Kom Op Tegen Kanker fellowship. Congratulations, Gianmarco!
June 25, 2015 – Sarah-Maria Fendt was selected from the Concern Foundation - Conquer Cancer Now Award for 2nd year funding
May 7, 2015 – 3rd Metabolism Mini Symposium @ VRC featuring cancer metabolism and neurometabolism
April 7, 2015 – New publication entitled: "Metabolic control of signaling pathways and metabolic auto-regulation". Congratulations, Doriane, Stefan, and Gianmarco!
April 6, 2015 – New publication: "Organ specific cancer metabolism and its potential for therapy". Congratulations, Ilaria, Roberta, and Stefan!
April 2, 2015 – Press releases by HNL.be, De Standaard, eCancer & FlandersBio and VIB news featuring our publication on the importance of fatty acid oxidation for endothelial cell proliferation
April 1, 2015 – News & Views article "Metabolism: Growth in the Fat Lane" featuring our publication on the importance of fatty acid oxidation for endothelial cell proliferation
February 26, 2015 – New publication: "Fatty acid carbon is essential for dNTP synthesis in endothelial cells". Congratulations, Ilaria and Stefan on your co-authorship!
February 10, 2015 – New publication: "A roadmap for interpreting 13C metabolite labeling patterns from cells". Congratulations, Jörg!
November 24, 2014 – Roberta Schmieder received Pegasus Marie Curie Fellowship. Congratulations, Roberta!
November 19 2014 – Sarah-Maria Fendt received FWO-Research Grant and Eugène Yourassowsky Schenking
November 13, 2014 – 2nd Metabolism Mini Symposium @ VRC featuring cancer metabolism & signaling and metabolism & immunology
October 27, 2014 – New publication: "Pyruvate kinase isoform expression alters nucleotide synthesis to impact cell proliferation". Congratulations, Stefan and Ilaria on your co-authorship!
August 14, 2014 – New publication: "The mTORC1/S6K1 pathway regulates glutamine metabolism through the eIF4B-dependent control of c-Myc translation". Congratulations, Ilaria, to your co-authorship!
June 6, 2014 – Sarah-Maria Fendt received the Conquer Cancer Now Award
February 9, 2014 – JNCI published a comment on metformin and prostate cancer
December 16, 2013 – UroToday publishes ‘Beyond the Abstract’ feature about the publication on metformin and prostate cancer metabolism
December 13, 2013 – Sarah-Maria Fendt received Odysseus II grant
December 11, 2013 – Sarah-Maria Fendt joined the Editorial Board of Molecular Metabolism
December 9, 2013 – Kick-Off meeting with Bayer Pharmaceuticals
December 9, 2013 Doriane Lorendeau received Marie Curie Omics @ VIB postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations, Doriane!
July 31, 2013 – New publication: "Reductive glutamine metabolism is a function of the alpha-ketoglutarate to citrate ratio in cells"
June 26, 2013 - 1st Metabolism Mini Symposium @ VRC featuring cancer metabolism and neurometabolism
May 29, 2013 – Sarah-Maria Fendt received CIG grant
May 20, 2013 – The publication on metformin and prostate cancer metabolism has been featured at MDLinx
May 17, 2013 – New publication: "Metformin decreases glucose oxidation and increases the dependency of prostate cancer cells on reductive glutamine metabolism"
May 09, 2013 – New publication: "The mTORC1 pathway stimulates glutamine metabolism and cell proliferation by repressing SIRT4"