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Leila Akkari

@leilaakkari.bsky.social

Cancer Biologist. Group Leader @NKI_nl Amsterdam, @oncodeinstitute. Microenvironment addict. Macrophage groupie. http://akkarilab.com

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And he did a fantastic job! Bravo Menno, very proud of you πŸ‘πŸ»

19.10.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats Soledad ! Very happy and very well deserved !

10.10.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for having me!!! It was a wonderful day of science :)

20.09.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bravo to @martina-farber.bsky.social and Serena from our lab for writing an insightful preview of a very important paper from the Dimitri lab !πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»

12.09.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations my dear! What wonderful news and very well deserved recognition 🀩

12.09.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€οΈπŸ§‘πŸ’›πŸ’šπŸ’™ The traditional Canal Parade marked the end of Pride 2025 this past Saturday. Eighty boats took part, with number 72 proudly representing our Institute. We believe that an inclusive organization, where you can be yourself, is the foundation for strong collaboration and excellent research.

05.08.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Meet Leila Akkari (@leilaakkari.bsky.social). She combines insights from immunology and molecular biology to study how tumour cells and immune cells influence each other.

πŸ‘‰ www.ammodo-science.org/researches/l...

Ammodo Science Award Laureate 2025 πŸ§ͺ
#immunology #molbiol

05.08.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Entended deadline for the hands-on Cancer Neuroscience Cajal Course in Bordeaux. Spread the word!

18.06.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So proud of @efitsouri.bsky.social, Thijs and Menno from our lab who ran up the Alpes d’Huez and raised funds for cancer research with @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social. Inspiring πŸ™πŸ€©

05.06.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nothing like a little animal facility trip for injections with @claudiadepaulis.bsky.social and team to break from grant reviews 😍! I don’t do much experiments anymore, but it’s nice to feel useful sometimes πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

21.05.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s a great idea!

19.05.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My blue sky mindset as very busy times are keeping me from seeing it much (both the sky and kid!). Hard trade off of being a scientist,-something life is really just about research, and that’s ok, as long as it’s not too long :)

02.05.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯ΉπŸ₯ΉπŸ₯Ή thank you roomie!

15.04.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very proud to receive this Ammodo Science Award recognition of our lab’s work the past few years @nkinl.bsky.social @oncodeinstitute.bsky.social πŸ™πŸ™. Big up to my fabulous lab peeps, mentors, colleagues, family and friends for all their support. Looking forward to celebrate altogether on May 7thπŸ₯³πŸ€©πŸ₯°!

15.04.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write - Nature Biotechnology Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

A beautiful article about writing, which also advocates against the use of LLM when learning academic writing

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

05.04.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Happy to be organising this year’s yICSA symposium at the @nkinl.bsky.social. Looking forward to two days full of exciting research πŸ˜„ #yICSAAmsterdam @yicsac.bsky.social @icsasenescence.bsky.social

17.03.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Please spread widely πŸ™, thank you !
Dear community, we are actively looking for the mouse 344SQ lung adenocarcinoma cell line (129sv background) ?
We would also be interested in any other mouse tumor cell line in this background (129sv).
Highly appreciated !
Thank you in advance

10.03.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just perfectly wordedπŸ‘‡. Happy international women’s day to all !πŸ’ͺ. #WomenInScience

08.03.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Enjoy being back in our old city!!!

06.03.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A TME dynamics challenge!!! 🀩🀩🀩 @cancergrand.bsky.social

05.03.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜₯. Sad..

03.03.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Had an amazing time at AMC25! It was a great opportunity to present my work, have insightful discussions and connect with amazing people! Very grateful to have received the poster prize - thanks to the organizers for such a fantastic event! πŸ€©β˜€οΈπŸŒ΄

01.03.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hurray for Menno and Martina (M&M) for their poster prize at #AMC25 🀩🀩 thank you @juliensage.bsky.social @fusionconf.bsky.social for having us here- what a fantastic few days of science (and sun.. πŸ˜‰)

01.03.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our excellent host, Julien Sage, sharing a surprising/unexpected role for T cells in the biology of small cell lung cancer …thanks Julien and Kevin for organising such a great @fusionconf.bsky.social (mouse models of cancer) conference!!

28.02.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to be attending #AMC25 and hearing about amazing science!! @fusionconf.bsky.social

28.02.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This evening focused on insights into heterogeneity & plasticity:
πŸ’₯ Tuomas Tammela on cell state interrogation
πŸ§ͺ Laura Attardi on p53 in cell state transitions
🧬 Frederic De Sauvage on tumor cell plasticity in colorectal cancer
Thanks to our incredible speakers for their contributions! πŸ™Œ #AMC25

28.02.2025 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations to @tymillerlab.bsky.social and the Bernstein lab for this elegant work defining phenotypic programs of myeloid cells in gliomas-so many integrated cues to it! πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ€©

27.02.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yay! Welcome to Bluesky RenΓ©!

25.02.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to joining you there Rich !

22.02.2025 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a wonderful issue this month! I should be sleeping but can’t stop reading πŸ˜…

20.02.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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