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10 May 2022
Cancer Research UK forms strategic alliance with the Oncode Institute
Cancer Research UK, the world’s largest private funder of cancer research, today announces a strategic alliance with Oncode Institute. The five-year partnership is the first under Cancer Research UK’s new innovation organisation, Cancer Research Horizons, as well as being Oncode’s first UK partner. The alliance aims to foster innovation and collaboration between world-leading cancer researchers.


News
6 May 2022
A new critical regulator of interferon signaling discovered
The group of Oncode Investigator Daniel Peeper (NKI) has published in Nature Communications its discovery of a new regulator of interferon γ (IFNγ signaling. The IFNγ response pathway is associated with response to immunotherapy in cancer.


News
4 May 2022
Simmunext: where immunotherapy and chemistry meet
Simmunext is a company name made of three words describing the innovative approach Oncode Investigator Carl Figdor has developed to create polymers which can act as artificial antigen-presenting cells to stimulate the immune system to obtain a therapeutic response. The company is now ready for its journey to leverage this platform technology to bring novel cancer therapies to the clinic.


News
29 April 2022
Missing enzyme identified: how MATCAP works and affects brain development
Oncode Investigator Thijn Brummelkamp’s lab (NKI) previously identified Vasohibins as detyrosinating enzymes, but most cells contain detyrosinated microtubules even when the two Vasohibin genes are deleted. The team now identified MATCAP as a new enzyme involved in this process. Together with Oncode Investigator Anastassis Perrakis’ lab (NKI) they then showed how MATCAP works and how it engages with microtubules.


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