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Johanna is awarded the Robert Bing prize from the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences for the lab’s ‘pioneering work on the role of immune cells in the development of brain tumours’ (et en francais @UNIL).

Congratulations to Damien for an excellent defense of his master thesis studying neutrophils in brain malignancies, under the mentorship of Klara and with great support from Roeltje. We wish you the very best for the next steps!

Happy masked holidays from the Joyce lab! Thanks to Angel, Anoek & Klara for planning the fun lab trivia games (the reason behind the silly hats..)

Charting the immune landscape in brain cancers: Klara and Johanna wrote this Science Break on our lab’s Cell paper interrogating the immune microenvironment in primary and metastatic brain cancers.

15 years of the Joyce lab - in Covid times we had to do masked gatherings and zoom reunions with former lab members - but still a great occasion to celebrate!

Congratulations to Anoek Zomer for receiving a Veni career transition award from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to support her future research on the pediatric glioma microenvironment at the Prinses Maxima Centrum, Netherlands

Farewell to Lucie Tillard, who will join the Lutolf Lab as their lab manager at EPFL, and to Sina Nassiri who is moving to Roche in Basel as an immuno-oncology computational specialist- we wish you every success in these exciting new positions

Congratulations to Matteo for receiving the Inaugural Amanda Proudfoot Tribute Award for advances in chemokine biology from the Cytokine Society!

Well done to Marta for receiving a new fellowship from the Human Frontiers Science Program!

Congratulations to Spencer for receiving a fellowship from The Brain Tumour Charity, through their new ‘Future Leaders’ program!

Summary of our STM paper by Cancer Discovery.

You can also find more information on the study in a news release by the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.

Congratulations to Leila and all authors for our Science Translational Medicine paper investigating the response of the brain tumor microenvironment to radiation

Welcome to Damien Marie who joins us for his Master thesis project studying neutrophils with Klara.

The Brain Metastasis Panel of cell lines and mouse models is published in Cancer Research, representing a consortium of labs around the world led by Manuel Valiente, CNIO.

Johanna joins the editorial advisory board of Cancer Cell

Article in BrainPost covering our brain tumor microenvironment study, in an accessible form for non-specialists and the general public: ‘Immune Cells are Differentially Shaped by Brain Tumor Microenvironments’

Interview in l’ACTU about our brain tumor microenvironment study in Cell, and some of the background and motivation underlying this research (en francais, and in English).

You can also find more info in this news release by the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.

Congratulations to Florian and all the team for our paper in Cell interrogating the immune landscape of the human brain tumor microenvironment!

Goodbye and good luck to Joanna, who is joining Lunaphore, a Lausanne-based startup focused on next-generation tissue analytics

Farewell party to say goodbye and a huge thank you to Mara, who is taking a new position as the Agora building manager. And a warm ‘welcome’ to Klara who is now promoted to research associate and Joyce lab manager!

‘A roadmap for the next decade in cancer research’ in the first issue of Nature Cancer includes a perspective from Johanna on the tumor microenvironment.

Celebrating the holidays with our annual tradition at Au Chat Noir- another great party with special guests Santa & Klaus!

Congratulations to Angel for receiving a postdoc fellowship from EMBO!

Welcome to Marta Jordao, who received an EMBO fellowship to fund her postdoc research on brain cancer lymphatics. Marta did her PhD in Marco Prinz’s lab at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where she explored CNS macrophages at the single cell level.

Congratulations to Vlad for receiving a travel award for the ImmunoRad conference, New York!

Welcome to Stéphanie who joins us as the Joyce lab Administrative Assistant! Stéphanie was previously an Executive Assistant and Office Manager at Camptocamp, EPFL Innovation Park.

Our research on tumor-associated macrophages and drug resistance is included in this Knowable article on ‘How our bodies coddle cancer’

Congratulations Florian for winning a best poster prize at the Vienna Brain Metastasis Research Symposium!

Congratulations to Klara for receiving a postdoc fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund- FWF!

Welcome to Sina who joins us as a bioinformatics collaborator from the SIB.

Our review on re-educating tumor-associated macrophages in cancer is published in Immunotherapy (open access).

Goodbye and good luck to Jean, who is starting his own lab at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm! (Lab link)

Johanna is included in the 2018 UNIL annual report (en francais).

Welcome to Simona Ziakova who joins us for her Master thesis project.

Well done to Leire for receiving a fellowship from the Human Frontiers Science Program!

Welcome to Angel Alvarez-Prado, who did his PhD in Almudena Ramiro’s lab at the CNIC in Madrid, investigating the role of AID-induced mutations in B cells and lymphoma.

Agora rising: the new Agora cancer center is featured in the Global Geneva magazine.

Welcome to Leire Bejarano, who received an EMBO fellowship to fund her postdoc research on brain metastasis. Leire did her PhD in Maria Blasco’s lab at the CNIO, Madrid, where she focused on telomere targeting in glioblastoma.

The lab returns to Au Chat Noir for our Christmas dinner- happy holidays to all!

Johanna is awarded the 2018 Cloetta Prize

Interview with Johanna in the UNIL magazine l’Uniscope (en francais)

Well done to Anoek and Spencer for winning the best poster prize at the annual SCCL retreat!

Congratulations to Matteo for receiving the iCARE-2 postdoc fellowship from the AIRC/ Marie Curie!

Welcome to Matteo Massara, who recently finished his PhD at the University of Milan, Italy, studying chemokine receptors and neutrophils in metastasis

Johanna is featured in the Research Highlights of Ludwig’s 2018 annual report (PDF)

Welcome to Vincent Schnorhk who joins us for his Master thesis project

A Q&A interview with Johanna is in the current issue of Ludwig Links (PDF)

Welcome to Jean Hausser, who joins the lab for the return phase of his SNSF fellowship, following a postdoc in Uri Alon’s lab, Weizmann Institute, Israel

Our obesity Science Break- where science meets society- is now online

Our research on macrophages in cancer is featured in The Scientist

Best of luck to Oakley for his postdoc in Emmanuelle Passegue’s lab at Columbia Medical School, New York

Lab Christmas dinner at Au Chat Noir, Lausanne!

Our perspective on obesity and the tumor microenvironment is published in Science

Johanna is elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences

We wish Daniela fun times ahead in her own lab at McGill University, Montreal! (Lab link)

First hard hat visit to our new lab space under construction in the Agora building.

Johanna receives the 2017 Swiss Bridge Award

Lab retreat next to the vineyards in Cully! 

Interview with Johanna by the Rita Allen Foundation

Welcome to new Ph.D. student Roeltje Maas who recently received her M.D. from the Radbaud University, Netherlands, and new postdoc Spencer Watson who just received his PhD from Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA

Congratulations to Daniela, Oakley and all authors for our paper in Nature Cell Biology elucidating how obesity promotes breast metastasis

Johanna is elected a member of EMBO

Well done to Dongyao and all authors for our study in Oncogene showing how tumor-associated macrophages interfere with the efficacy of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in gliomas

Welcome to new graduate student Vladimir Wichnewski who joins us from the University of Freiburg, Germany where he did his MSc in Molecular Medicine, and new postdoc Klara Soukup who recently received her PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria.

Our tumour microenvironment poster can be downloaded for free from Nature Reviews Cancer

Johanna joins the editorial board of The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Well done to Oakley and all authors for our identification of a novel mechanism for macrophage-mediated chemoresistance, published in Cell Reports

Our reviews of the brain microenvironmental landscape and resistance to macrophage-targeted therapies are now online in Cancer Cell and Clinical Cancer Research

Well done to Anoek for receiving a postdoc fellowship from the Human Frontiers Science Program!

Our recent paper on tumor-associated macrophages in brain cancers was selected as one of the 'Best of Cell Reports' for 2016

We're excited to be part of the CRUK Grand Challenge to build a 3D map of the breast tumor microenvironment through our project 'IMAXT: Imaging and Molecular Annotation of Xenografts and Tumours'

Congratulations to Davide Croci, for his acceptance into the UNIL Cancer and Immunology PhD program- and an official welcome to the lab!

Johanna joins the editorial board of Genes and Development

Congratulations and farewell to Leila who is starting her own lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam. We wish you all the very best! (Lab link)

Welcome to Anoek Zomer, who joins our lab as a postdoc after her PhD on stem cell biology, extracellular vesicles, and intravital imaging of tumours in the van Rheenen lab, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht.

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Congratulations to Florian who was awarded the Fondation Medic prize for 2016

Congratulations to Bobby and all authors for our publication identifying and analysing macrophage sub-populations in brain malignancies in Cell Reports

Goodbye to Bobby who is joining Ross Levine’s lab at MSKCC for his postdoc, Bianca who will move to Jedd Wolchok’s lab at MSKCC, and Dongyao who is joining Nantomics in Maryland, USA, as a Scientist.

Good luck to you all!

Well done to all authors on our collaborative project with the Overall lab in Vancouver, identifying cathepsin protease substrates in cancer, which was published in Cell Reports

Welcome to Joanna Kowal, who joins our lab as a postdoc after completing her PhD on exosome biology in the Théry lab, Institut Curie, Paris.

Congratulations to Daniela and all authors for our publication identifying tumour microenvironment-mediated resistance to macrophage-targeted therapies in Science

Congratulations to Bobby and Oakley on their graduation from the Gerstner Sloan Kettering graduate school at MSKCC.

We’re so proud of you both!

Congratulations to Leila, former graduate student Leny, and all authors for our genetic analysis of cathepsin family members in cancer published in Genes & Development