We are happy to announce the addition of a new MSc student to our group. Please welcome BSc Pietro Giuriatti. Pietro is a determined young researcher with a background in cell biology and biotechnology. In 2020 he achieved his BSc degree at University of Trento in Italy, where he is now doing a master’s in cancer […]

We are happy to announce the addition of a new scientist to our group. Please welcome Professor Emeritus Reidar Albrechtsen. Reidar Albrechtsen (RAL) is a specialist in pathology and cytology since 1976 and has worked for several years as a clinical pathologist at the Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet. RAL received his medical doctorate (DMSC) in

The Danish Cancer Society (Kræftens Bekæmpelse) has awarded our group two postdoctoral fellowships: one to Edward Horton and one to Raphael Reuten. Both fellowships are due to start in spring 2019 and will last for 3 years. Edward’s project aims to analyse interactions between cancer cells and their microenvironment to determine how metastatic cancer cells

We are happy to announce the addition of a new PhD student to our group. Please welcome MSc Maria Rafaeva. Maria is an enthusiastic young researcher with a background in cell biology. In 2015 she completed her BSc studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia. Being driven by an interest in microscopy, she continued her studies

Honorary award On Monday 6 November 2017, Professor Janine Erler received the Lundbeck Foundation’s Research Prize for Young Scientists, which is a personal, honorary award of DKK 300,000, given to a young scientist under the age of 40. The prize is awarded once a year to acknowledge a particularly promising scientist who has produced outstanding

We are happy to announce the addition of a new postdoc to our group. Please welcome Dr. Pier Giorgio Amendola. Pier is an Italian postdoctoral scientist with a solid background in molecular and cellular biology. Pier earned his Msc in Molecular Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, studying the role of the tumor suppressor

We are happy to announce the addition of a new postdoctoral scientist to our group. Please welcome Dr. Tine Thurison Røndbjerg. Tine is bringing in extensive expertise in translational cancer research, animal models and biomarker research. Tine completed her PhD at the Finsen Laboratory, University of Copenhagen in 2014, where after she moved to the US and

Erler Lab, May 2017  Kræftens Bekæmpelse, the Danish Cancer Society, has awarded a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship to our newest member, Sebastian Rune Nielsen, to determine how the extracellular matrix regulates the function of tumour-associated macrophages in pancreatic cancer. Patients with pancreatic cancer have the worst prognosis among all cancer patients, with only 7% of patients

By Erler Lab, July 2016 We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic researcher, with specific skills to undertake research into how the extracellular matrix regulates cancer progression. Project The postdoc will investigate how the extracellular matrix regulates cancer cell behaviour, using multiphoton microscopy to image cell-matrix and cell-cell interactions both ex vivo and […]

Raphael Reuten, March 2017 The German Society for Matrix Biology Young Investigator Award is selected every year during the society’s Annual Meeting. This year the meeting took place in Cologne and was organised by Gerhard Sengle, Julia Etich and others. I was delighted to be nominated, together with two other outstanding scientists: Eva Brauchle, from the