Cancer patient survival rates in Denmark are among the poorest in Europe, but a new project aims to use personalized medicine to fight back. A number of public and private partners have come together to treat cancer patients with much better accuracy than before, by using patients’ own cells to identify the best possible treatment. […]

Erlerlab Nov 2016 We have been awarded a Pre-Seed grant by the Novo Nordisk Foundation The majority of cancer deaths are caused when a primary cancer spreads to different parts of the body, so for a long time we have been interested in preventing this spread (called metastasis). The Novo Nordisk Foundation pre-seed grants are

Erler Lab, Oct 2016 Kræftens Bekæmpelse, the Danish Cancer Society, has awarded us a new grant to personalise the treatments for patients suffering with relapsed glioblastoma (brain tumours) in Denmark. This grant comes under the Knæk Cancer (or ‘Break Cancer’) campaign. Glioblastoma can vary greatly, so it is important to understand how each individual tumour

Janine Erler, Sept 2016 This week we are saying fond farewells to Dr Tom Cox, who has been part of the Erler group for eight and a half years! Tom was the second person I hired when I set up my own research group. He joined my lab in May 2008 following his PhD, while

Erler Lab, Sept 2016 We are delighted to welcome a new postdoctoral researcher to our group. Please put your hands together for Dr Raphael Reuten. Raphael is joining us from Germany, and brings his expertise in the Extracellular Matrix (ECM) to help us to understand even more about how the structures around our cells play a role

Erler Lab, August 2016 Sadly, we are saying a big farewell to Dr Lara Perryman, who is leaving us today after four years in the Erler lab. Lara joined us in 2012 to complete her PhD, after gaining years of research experience working with Prof Chris Jones at the ICR. She finished her PhD last year, and continued working

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

By Ed Horton, June 2016 I recently attended the 2nd Matrix Biology Europe (MBE) conference in Athens, which is an international conference focusing on all aspects of extracellular matrix biology and aims to bring together researchers and scientists from across Europe that are working on matrix biology.   Along with interesting presentations from matrix researchers across Europe,

By Erler Lab, May 2016 We are delighted to announce that Janine Erler has been awarded the Danish Cancer Society Junior Research Prize. The Danish Cancer Society (Kræftens Bekæmpelses) has recognised Janine’s pioneering work into the role of the enzyme LOX in cancer progression and her ongoing efforts to identify new ways to prevent the