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Cancer cells hijack a fatty acid to escape immune attack in liver metastases

05/08/2026

Article VIB Press                     Article VRT News                    Article Artsenkrant

Fatty liver drives a more dangerous form of cancer spread

01/07/2026

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Blocking lipid production in healthy lung cells can reduce lung metastasis

17/03/2026

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Ginevra Doglioni won the Prijs Biomedische Wetenshappen

02/06/2026

Ginevra has won this prize with her PhD research project 'Een niet-metabolische rol van aspartaat in de vorming van longmetastasen'.

KU Leuven announcement

Xiao-Zheng Liu receives the Beug Foundation's Prize for metastasis research 2025

2025

Xiao-Zheng Liu receives the Beug Foundation award for her project 'Tracing Clonal Evolution of Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases in Obesity'

Beug Foundation News Release

Sarah-Maria Fendt is elected as a EACS Fellow

2025

EACS News Release

Onderzoekers onthullen waarom kankers vaak naar de long uitzaaien

02/01/2025

Article VIB Press

AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Cancer Research

08/04/2024

Sarah-Maria Fendt receives the AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Cancer Research

AACR News release

For cancer researcher Sarah-Maria Fendt, science is made of many small moments of discovery

51e Prix Fondation ARC Léopold Griffuel

Prestigious Francqui-Collen Prizes 2023 go to pioneering cancer research and the global workhorse of virology

Laureates Sarah-Maria Fendt (KU Leuven/VIB) and Philippe Lemey (KU Leuven) have been lauded by the international jury for their research on cancer cell metastasis and real-time genetic mapping of viruses.

25/05/2023

Francqui-Collen-Prizes 2023 press release

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A palmitate-rich metastatic niche enables metastasis growth via p65 acetylation resulting in pro-metastatic NF-κB signaling

VIB-KU Leuven-onderzoekers ontdekken 'schakelaar' waardoor immuuncellen bij muizen beter kunnen werken

15/11/2022

Cell reports article

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Z-Life Sciences

05/10/2022

EMBO elects 67 new members and associate members

06-07-2022

Patricia Altea Manzano and Sarah-Maria Fendt have won the Beug Foundation's prize for metastasis research 2021

Article Patricia Altea Manzano

Article Sarah-Maria Fendt

In Vivo Evidence for Serine Biosynthesis-Defined Sensitivity of Lung Metastasis, but Not of Primary Breast Tumors, to mTORC1 Inhibition

January 2021

Molecular Cell  preview, article

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Prof. Sarah-Maria Fendt is awarded the EMBO Gold Medal

14-10-2020

Sarah-Maria Fendt receives the Fonds Baillet Latour 2020 Medical Research Grant

01-07-2020

Breast cancer cells rely on pyruvate to expand in new tissues

04-03-2019

Nature Article

Nature Reviews Cancer Highlights

A hidden route for fatty acids can make cancers resistant to therapy

06-02-2019

Nature Article, News and Views

Researchers identify nutrient metabolism that drives breast tumor metastasis

11-05-2017

Nature Communications article

Research from the group of Sarah-Maria Fendt reveals how succinate dehydrogenase is linked to both tumor and neurodegeneration

15-11-2016

Metabolic Engineering article

Scientists uncover how spreading cancer adapts to its environment

11-10-2016

Cell Reports article