Immunologist, cancer researcher, scientist. We study innate-adaptive immune crosstalk, with a focus on type-2 immunity. Dutch/Canadian living in the UK.

Cambridge, England
Joined June 2019
Our #CITIID Director Prof Menna Clatworthy has been appointed Regius Professor of Medicine @UniofOxford. Menna has made an extraordinary contribution to the Department of Medicine at Cambridge as a clinician scientist, mentor, and academic leader. 🔗 buff.ly/Wh8av3e
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A new Science #Immunology study that evaluated five different large language models finds that they can support vaccine research, but are not very effective at generating creative hypotheses or designing novel experiments. scim.ag/3XwFmL5 #LLMs
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Check out the latest review from the Vignali lab discussing Tregs in cancer! Congrats to my lab mates @CImianowski and Qiang on this wonderful work 🧬🧫 nature.com/articles/s41568-0…
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Thrilled to share new work led by @JieYang437 in the lab published today in @Nature. We find that Aspirin prevents metastasis by releasing T cells from immune suppression by platelet TXA2. @Cambridge_Uni @CRUKCamCentre rdcu.be/eci1U
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“It is very good news for the science sector and for the UK that the Chancellor has recognised research and innovation as a ‘crucial national asset’ for delivering long-term economic growth." President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith responds to today's #AutumnStatement. royalsociety.org/news/2024/1… #Budget24
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📣 Less than 1 week until @Wessex_immunol's #WessexImmuno24 event! This meeting will welcome speakers @DrDentie, @RhiannaBlyth, Dr @jmorenika, Dr @ljpally19 & many more who will explore #stromal research! 🌠 Browse the full programme & register here 👉bit.ly/49AhfiO
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Postdoc to join our lab as part of our Wellcome Discovery Award team with @LabWithers and @ClatworthyLab Apply below! (closing date May 10th) ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search…
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🆕 Breast cancer immunology paper out in @NatImmunol‼️⚠️ Buckle up for a deep dive into how our immune system fights breast cancer! 🥷💪🏻 Link to paper: rdcu.be/dGy70 #cancerresearch #bcsm #breastcancer Main messages, a 🧵: 👇🏻 @OncoAlert
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Apply below if you’d like to join our team based at UCL ⬇️ Work in our lab will be investigating the stromal niches supporting tertiary lymphoid structure formation and function. #postdoc @LMCB_UCL ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search…
I am delighted to announce our recent Wellcome DA success with @ActonLab and @ClatworthyLab. Super exciting opportunity. If interested in joining our team as a post-doc please contact any of us for more info.
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Details about this #job available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1pvN…
Join us! We seek a highly motivated lab/research manager to join a friendly and dynamic team and contribute to new therapy development in immune regulation and cancer immunosuppression @roychoudhurilab @CamPathology @CRUKCambridge. Deadline 28 Feb, Apply: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44969/
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In this International Day of Women and Girls in Science day, we congratulate Dr. Sarah Crome (@sarah_crome), the recipient of the 2024 CSI New Investigator award, for her outstanding work in tissue-specific immune tolerance 🏆👏
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This week: Dr. @SarahKWhiteside and a team in the @RoychoudhuriLab found that CD4+ conventional #Tcells acquire suppressive functions upon #Treg depletion, limiting the efficacy of Treg-targeted therapies 📝 @SciImmunology: bit.ly/3GVkCnO 🎧: bit.ly/3SlDqTU
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We’ve been #heating our home with an air-source #heatpump since 2020. This has massively reduced our energy use/year for heating & hot water to 3,562kWh, equating to only 0.74 Tonnes CO2 emitted/year - a quarter of the National average! How we upgraded: sites.google.com/view/becomi…
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SAVE THE DATE: #TumourMicroenvironment24 This @BSI_TumourImm Group meeting will bring together scientific & clinical researchers alongside industry partners for #networking opportunities & exciting discussions 💡 Registration & full details coming soon 🌠bit.ly/3QP9E9n
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If you ever wanted to *really* know what is happening to PBMC in healthy aging - now you know! Just out in @ImmunityCP , our latest work in immune aging - dissection of >300 PBMC samples aged from 25 to 85 years. Huge dataset and detailed annotations. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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We are hiring TWO core-funded group leaders! Each position comes with a flexible start-up package: 👩‍🔬2 postdocs and a technician 🧑‍🎓2 PhD students 🔬budgets for our state-of-the-art core facilities. Ready to join our community of exceptional researchers? cruk.cam.ac.uk/jobs-and-stud…
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Join us in Cambridge! 2x group leader positions. Particular interest: computational biology including AI Core funded. Best start-up package you will get anywhere. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43302/
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It's official 🎉 ! I'll be starting my lab @deDuveInstitute @UCLouvain_be in October. We'll be looking at how somatic mutations affect gut mucosal immunity in non-neoplastic diseases 🐭🧬🧪 Grateful to all my colleagues, mentors and funders who helped along the way #newPI
RÉSULTATS 📣 | Appel Bourses et Mandats 2023 Chercheuses et Chercheurs qualifié(e)s : nouvelles désignations décidées par le Conseil d’Administration du FNRS ce 20 juin. ➕ Retrouvez la liste des octrois sur notre site : frs-fnrs.be/fr/l-actualite-f…
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