Press releases

51e Prix Fondation ARC Léopold Griffuel

12/06/2023

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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Patricia Altea-Manzano en Sarah-Maria Fendt

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

02/02/2023

Nature Cancer article, News & Views

Sarah-Maria Fendt and Juan Fernández-Garcia

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

15/11/2022

Cell reports article

Z-Life Sciences

05/10/2022

EMBO elects 67 new members and associate members

06-07-2022

Beug Foundation Award 2022 - Patricia Altea Manzano and Sarah-Maria Fendt

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

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