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📰 🎉 Our IRIBHM December Newsletter is out now! Discover the latest Institute highlights, upcoming events, spotlights on our members, and recent achievements from our teams. And our scientific detective chronicle. Dive in and enjoy! hashtag #Newsletter, #Research, #LabLife, #ULB 🧪

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Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Our @iribhm.bsky.social November Newsletter is now online !
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Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot ABSTRACT. Scientific misinformation is a defining challenge of our time. As public trust in science declines and falsehoods spread faster than facts, the scientific community must rethink its role in ...

Excellent article on science communication in @dev-journal.bsky.social - thank you to all the authors! doi.org/10.1242/dev.... ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Congratulations Emma ! Fantastic work !! 🧪👏

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92 It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

RIP. 😢

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Our @iribhm.bsky.social October Newsletter is now online !
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European Thyroid Journal. Novel Insights in Advanced Thyroid Carcinoma Special Collection. New Review: Development of 3D organoid models to study aggressive thyroid cancers. By Eduardo Rios-Morris et al.

Organoid technology at the forefront of thyroid cancer research.

New review by Eduardo Rios-Morris et al. @iribhm.bsky.social explores how patient- and stem-cell-derived models are transforming our understanding of complex molecular mechanisms & personalised medicine.

doi.org/10.1530/ETJ-24-0392

Our @iribhm.bsky.social September Newsletter is now online !
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Transcriptomics of autoimmune diseases identifies FGFR1 as a target for pancreatic β-cell protection Autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes (T1D) and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), are often studied from an immune perspective with less focus on t…

A collaborative publication has emerged from a scientific collaboration between the ULB Diabetes Center and the IRIBHM JE Dumont. Congratulations to both research institutions for this significant achievement. 🎉👏🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪

Horizon Europe 2028 - 2034: twice bigger, simpler, faster and more impactful Research and innovation news alert: As part of the next long-term EU budget 2028-2034, the Commission is proposing to double the budget of the research and innovation framework programme to €175 billi...

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC.

We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail.

@Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU

research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

Frontiers | Autophagy inhibition improves sensitivity to the multi-kinase inhibitor regorafenib in preclinical mouse colon tumoroids Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with its incidence continuing to rise. Regorafenib, a multi-kina...

Happy to share our latest publication.
Congratulation to Giulia for her nice study 👏

www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...

A new article from IRIBHM, Romitti and Costagliola Lab. Congratulations to the team ! 🎉🧪

etj.bioscientifica.com/view/journal...

‼️‼️📢📢 Job Alert!
Our lab at @iribhm.bsky.social - @ulbruxelles.bsky.social is seeking for a PhD student to work on the proteostasis of early mammalian development using stem cell models and the embryo. If you are enthusiastic about cell and dev biology, please apply!

Our @iribhm.bsky.social July Newsletter is now online !
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Co-development of mesoderm and endoderm enables organotypic vascularization in lung and gut organoids Recapitulating the concurrent development of germ layers through the co-differentiation of mesoderm and endoderm within a single spheroid enabled the generation of vascularized lung and intestinal organoids, revealing how the microenvironment guides the development of organotypic endothelial and mesenchymal cells.

Now online! Co-development of mesoderm and endoderm enables organotypic vascularization in lung and gut organoids

Innate immunity and the NF-κB pathway control prostate stem cell plasticity, reprogramming and tumor initiation - Nature Cancer Blanpain and colleagues delineate lineage reprogramming following PTEN deletion in different prostate cancer-originating cells, demonstrating that in basal cells the NF-κB pathway and innate immunity ...

I am delighted to share our new study uncovering the role of innate immunity in regulating cell plasticity and reprograming of prostate tumor initiating cells published in
@NatureCancer
. Congrats
@ChenJiang919
and
@yura__song
, the first authors,
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

“Why Are We Funding This?” Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.

Why are we funding this ? 🧪
www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...

🎓 On June 13th 2025, IRIBHM hosted its annual PhD Day. What a Success!

👏 Huge congrats to all presenters for their top-notch talks and posters.
📢 9 oral presentations
🧪 23 posters
👥 Nearly 100 attendees

Inspiring science and amazing energy! We’re already excited for next year! 💫

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Our @iribhm.bsky.social June Newsletter is now online !
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A new paper from SinghLab at @iribhm.bsky.social . Congrats ! 🧪

Congrats Sumeet !

Today, on ‘Be Open about Animal Research Day’, we spotlight how research with zebrafish brings us closer to healthier hearts. #BOARD25

Sharing about 80% of heart disease–causing genes with humans, the zebrafish is an excellent model to study how hearts develop, become diseased and might regenerate.

Sous la menace de l’administration Trump, les universitaires belges à Harvard dans l’expectative L’administration Trump menace Harvard de suspendre l’accueil des étudiants étrangers, plongeant les étudiants et chercheurs belges dans l’incertitude. Entre gel des visas et crainte d’une politique mi...

Une catastrophe pour les universités américaines: « L’intérêt des étudiants internationaux pour les Etats-Unis a déjà décliné», observe @mariusgilbert.bsky.social« Même sans interdiction formelle, beaucoup reconsidèrent leur choix, et ça, c’est un mouvement profond. »
www.lesoir.be/677471/artic...

There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research The NIH is “reducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.

There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a... via @statnews.com

Congrats Francesca! 🎉🧪

A new article from Isabelle Garcia team at iribhm JE Dumont . @iribhm.bsky.social . Congratulations ! 🧪

A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF