Archieved news

2023

• Welcome to Mathis Fiault who joins our team as a PhD student (collaboration with Serge Rudaz)
• Our recent review article on multidrug combinations delivery is published in Journal of  Controlled Relsease: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168365923002572?via%3Dihub
• Our recent collaborative research is published in Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research (open access): https://rdcu.be/c85eJ. Featuring press release: https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2023/des-tumeurs-avatars-pour-combattre-le-cancer-colorectal
• Welcome to Jakub GUBALA who joins our team as a doctoral student
• Fundation Valery supports our research
• Congratulations to George M. Ramzy who defended his PhD work on 27 January 2023. George continues his adventure with us as a postdoctoral fellow.
• The project of George M. Ramzy selected in the program between the Faculty of Science and the HEAD-Geneva, University of Art and Design for artistic representation of his scientific results.
• Welcome to Valentin Benboubker who joins us as a postdoctoral fellow and Liloz Moftizadeh - a master student.

2022

• Elose Ducrey is a finalist of Booster program: https://www.unige.ch/medecine/fr/organisation/fundraising/booster/phd-booster-edition-2022-decouvrez-les-laureat-es-meet-the-winners/
• We welcome Laura Iacobucci as a PhD student in our lab!
• Prof. Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska joins the board of Science Innovation Hub, UNIGE
• Boninchi Fundation supports our research
• We welcome Valentin Mieville as a PhD student in our lab!
• Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology publishes our article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41571-021-00496-y. Media attention: https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/2021/combiner-limmunotherapie-aux-medicaments-pour-vaincre-le-cancer/, https://www.ledauphine.com/sante/2021/04/10/une-etude-genevoise-fait-avancer-la-lutte-contre-le-cancer
• The microscopy image taken by Eloise Ducrey features the cover of Apoptosis

2021

• Magdalena Rausch defends her PhD thesis - congratulations!
• Magdalena Rausch is a finalist of a Booster Prize 2020 competition - congratulations! The Booster sheds light on and raise funds for PhD thesis projects in biomedical sciences at the University of Geneva. Magdalena explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKcipo9vluk&t=11s
• Magdalena Rausch wins SSEP poster prize  for the best poster related to Pharmacology, worth 500CHF at the LS2 2021 conference - congratulations!
• Yuan Petermann wins the Scientific Image Contest during the virtual lab retreat 2021!
• Swiss Cancer League and Geneva Cancer League support our research
• Swiss National Science Foundation supports our research 
• Prof. Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska awarded with the 3R UNIGE 2020 prize

2020

• Our study on high-order drug combinations to treat colorectal carcinoma and its activity is available now in open access in Molecular Oncology and gains major media attention: Tribune de Geneve (https://www.tdg.ch/decouverte-majeure-dans-le-traitement-dun-cancer-482861877739), Unige Press release (https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2020/traitement-contre-le-cancer-colorectal-la-combinaison-gagnante/), TV Leman Bleu (https://www.lemanbleu.ch/Scripts/Modules/CustomView/List.aspx?idn=9990&name=CategorySearch&Category=591), Le Journal (https://www.unige.ch/lejournal/presse/archives/chimiotherapies/)
• Our research gains attention of specialists - see beyond the abstract release: https://www.urotoday.com/recent-abstracts/urologic-oncology/renal-cancer/122174-identification-of-low-dose-multidrug-combinations-for-sunitinib-naive-and-pre-treated-renal-cell-carcinoma-beyond-the-abstract.html
• Lea Blanc and Romain Absolonne sucessfully defended their master theses. Congratulations!
• Bob Berndsen, co-supervised by Prof. Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska and Prof. Arjan W. Griffioen, defended his PhD today in Amsterdam in a great style. Congratulations Bob!!!!
• Our results on integration of phenotypic search with phosphoproteomic profiling of active kinases for optimization of drug mixtures in published under open access: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/12/9/2697. Highlighed by UroToday: https://www.urotoday.com/recent-abstracts/urologic-oncology/renal-cancer/124933-integrating-phenotypic-search-and-phosphoproteomic-profiling-of-active-kinases-for-optimization-of-drug-mixtures-for-rcc-treatment.html.
• We welcome our new master students in the lab: Lea Blanc, Sahar Boss and Romain Absolonne
• George M. Ramzy published his first paper in our lab. Congratulations! https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/12/6/1423
• Interview of Prof E. Allemann and Prof. P. Nowak-Sliwinska published in the Swiss news journal 24 heures (23 May 2020): Cellules dé cvag et placenta pour réduir es tests sur l'animal. Zoom sur les alternatives à l'expérimentation in vivo, entre atouts et limites
• Our study on drug-drug interactions in chemotherapeutic cocktails is now available: https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/25/11/2614
• Check the movie created by Sahar Boss, Arbenita Dervishaj and Camille Paccard on colorectal cancer: https://ispso.unige.ch/labs/NOWAK/files/15_vulgarisation.mp4
• George M. Ramzy published his first paper in our lab. Congratulations! https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/12/6/1423
• Marloes Zoetemelk defended her PhD thesis on 28th of February 2020. Congratulations!
• Prof. Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska and Prof. Patrick Meraldi in an interview for Radio Television Swiss:https://www.rts.ch/la-1ere/programmes/cqfd/11118908-une-nouvelle-strategie-contre-les-cellules-cancereuses-10-03-2020.html?mediaShare=1

2019

• Marloes Zoetemelk presents her project during Swiss Cancer Center Leman meeting, Lausanne
• Our research mentioned in La Journal: https://www.unige.ch/lejournal/numeros/journal1661/article-2/
• Prof. Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska in the campaign 100 women and thousands more: https://100femmes.ch/#campagne
• Our latest research mentioned by press: UNIGE: https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2019/une-nouvelle-arme-chimique-contre-le-cancer/, Le Matin: https://www.lematin.ch/sante/sciences/cancer-melange-chimique-prometteur-geneve/story/24912639, Tribune de Geneve: https://www.tdg.ch/savoirs/sciences/cancer-melange-chimique-prometteur-geneve/story/24912639,
• Eloise Ducrey receives the 1st master thesis prize. Congratulations!
• We co-organized the 2nd Symposium of CTROH Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical practice: https://www.unige.ch/medecine/translatoncohemato/en/news/14-octobre-2nd-crtoh-symposium/
• Our group wins a poster prize during the 2nd Symposium of CTROH Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical practice
• Scientific picture taken by M. Zoetemelk (Nature Sci Rep 2019) selected as a Biomedical Picture of the Day by the London Institute of Medical Sciences: http://bpod.mrc.ac.uk/archive/2019/6/15
• Prof. Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska in an interview for Radio Television Swiss: https://www.rts.ch/play/radio/cqfd/audio/la-3d-pour-tester-en-5-jours-les-traitements-personnalises?id=10420258&expandDescription=true.  To see also at Avisdexperts.ch: http://www.avisdexperts.ch/videos/view/9884/1 and Interpharma.ch: https://newsroom.interpharma.ch/2019-06-03-zellplattform-unterstuetzt-personalisierte-krebstherapie
• Our research mentioned in Campus journal (p.41): https://www.unige.ch/campus/files/9815/6879/5487/138DO6.pdf
• Eloise Ducrey starts her PhD adventure in our lab.
• Prof. Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska receives 2019 SGV award for the pioneer research for the 3Rs category, see also: https://twitter.com/sciences_UNIGE/status/1200451563946496000
• Magdalena Rausch presents her project at the Cancer Seminar of the Translational Research Center in Oncohaematology: https://agenda.unige.ch/events/view/25619
• Our latest press release: https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2019/la-3d-pour-tester-en-5-jours-les-traitements-personnalises/
• Magdalena Rausch selected to give a talk during the 7th Rare Diseases Summer School: https://www.radiz.uzh.ch/de/Rare-Diseases-Summer-School/SummerSchool2019.html
• Magdalena Rausch presents her project at the Cancer Seminar of the Translational Research Center in Oncohaematology: https://agenda.unige.ch/events/view/25619
• We welcome our summer student - Solene Chaleat (McGill University, Quebec)
• Marloes Zoetemelk presenting her project during PhD day 2019
• Congratulations to Magdalena Rausch for her first paper in our lab- soon in Advanced Therapeutics
• Drug repurposing in oncology - see our point of view: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31034926
• Congratulations to Marloes Zoetemelk for her first paper in our lab - see Nature Scientific Reports: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31068

2018

• UNIGE press release on our latest research: https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2018/un-robinet-pour-couper-lalimentation-des-tumeurs/
• Congratulations to Dina Hany (promotor: Prof. D. Picard, co-promotors: Prof. L. Scapozza and Prof. P. Nowak-Sliwinska) for the Booster Prize: https://www.unige.ch/medecine/fr/carrousel/phd-booster-project/