Institute of Molecular Cancer Research

The Institute of Molecular Cancer Research (IMCR) at the University of Zurich is seeking to support outstanding candidates applying for an SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship (Deadline: February 1, 2020).

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received the Ida de Pottère-Leupold and Dr. iur. Erik de Pottère Cancer Research Award.

The award recognizes his work: Histone ubiquitination by DNA damage response is required for efficient DNA replication in unperturbed S Phase.

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won a poster prize at the 1st CCCZ Scientific Retreat (March 24 - 26, 2019) in Emmetten, Switzerland.

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received the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Young Investigator Award 2019

for her research on "Deregulated Interferon-Stimulated Gene 15 (ISG15) leads to DNA replication stress and genomic instability".

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Hind Hashwah

won a poster prize at the 7th Cancer Network Zurich Retreat (March 26 - 28, 2017) in Emmetten, Switzerland.

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Isabelle Arnold

won one of the Best Workshop Presentation Awards

for her presentation on "Eosinophils function in experimental H. pylori infection" at the World Immune Regulation Meeting (WIRM) in Davos.
 

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Anna Stelling

received the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Young Investigator Award 2017
for her work "Tumor suppressive mechanisms of S1PR2 signaling in DLBCL".

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Alessandro SARTORI in UZH Journal 6/2016

«Der Feind im eigenen Körper»

Matteo Berti and Stanislaw Jozwiakowski were awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Zellweger, Ralph; Lopes, Massimo (2018). Dynamic Architecture of Eukaryotic DNA Replication Forks In Vivo, Visualized by Electron Microscopy In: Muzi-Falconi, Marco; Brown, Grant W. Genome Instability : Methods and Protocols. New York: Springer, 261-294.

Cánovas, Begoña; Igea, Ana; Sartori, Alessandro A; Gomis, Roger R; Paull, Tanya T; Isoda, Michitaka; Pérez-Montoyo, Héctor; Serra, Violeta; González-Suárez, Eva; Stracker, Travis H; Nebreda, Angel R (2018). Targeting p38α Increases DNA Damage, Chromosome Instability, and the Anti-tumoral Response to Taxanes in Breast Cancer Cells. Cancer Cell, 33(6):1094-1110.e8.

Menin, Luca; Ursich, Sebastian; Trovesi, Camilla; Zellweger, Ralph; Lopes, Massimo; Longhese, Maria Pia; Clerici, Michela (2018). Tel1/ATM prevents degradation of replication forks that reverse after topoisomerase poisoning. EMBO Reports:e45535.

Hafner, Lukas; Lezaja, Aleksandra; Zhang, Xu; Lemmens, Laure; Shyian, Maksym; Albert, Benjamin; Follonier, Cindy; Nunes, Jose Manuel; Lopes, Massimo; Shore, David; Mattarocci, Stefano (2018). Rif1 Binding and Control of Chromosome-Internal DNA Replication Origins Is Limited by Telomere Sequestration. Cell Reports, 23(4):983-992.

Trenner, Anika; Godau, Julia; Sartori, Alessandro A (2018). A short BRCA2-derived cell-penetrating peptide targets RAD51 function and confers hypersensitivity towards PARP inhibition. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics:Epub ahead of print.

Stelling, Anna; Hashwah, Hind; Bertram, Katrin; Manz, Markus G; Tzankov, Alexandar; Müller, Anne (2018). The tumor suppressive TGF-β/SMAD1/S1PR2 signaling axis is recurrently inactivated in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Blood, 131(20):2235-2246.

van Wijck, Yolanda; de Kleijn, Stan; John-Schuster, Gerrit; Mertens, Tinne C J; Hiemstra, Pieter S; Müller, Anne; Smits, Hermelijn H; Taube, Christian (2018). Therapeutic Application of an Extract of Helicobacter pylori Ameliorates the Development of Allergic Airway Disease Journal of Immunology:Epub ahead of print.