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Adele Alchahin first Ph.D. candidate in the lab to successfully defend her doctoral thesis after joining the lab in 2018. Adele was registered in 2018 and defended her thesis on March 10, 2023. [...]

Gene signature points to prognosis in kidney cancer Among patients with kidney cancer, the activity of four specific genes in the cancer cells seems to be able to predict the risk of the tumour [...]

Hopes of a new curative treatment for children with neuroblastoma Children who suffer a relapse of the aggressive cancer known as neuroblastoma have small chances of survival. However, a group [...]

Ph.D. student Manouk Verhoeven published her first manuscript in Cell Reports Medicine. Her work focused on characterizing the immune system of human neuroblastoma at the single-cell level. [...]

Jörg presented his work entitled “Schwann Cell Precursors are the cell-of-origin in human neuroblastoma” at the annual Karolinska Comprehensive Cancer Center Symposia. Jörg Otte [...]

Dr Baryawno has been awarded the prestigious Senior Investigator Award from The Swedish Cancer Society. The award was in open competition from cancer researchers nationwide and covers 6 years of [...]

Several Baryawno lab members were successful in the position calls from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation in Sweden. Jörg Otte prolonged his salary for the postdoc fellowship by two years [...]

The work of Thale Olsen and Jörg Otte has been awarded funding from the Swedish Research Council. The Baryawno research group has been awarded a 4-year funding of 4,8 million SEK from the Swedish [...]

“PhD student Manouk Verhoeven has been elected as the Chair Person leading the DSA board 2022” We are happy to announce that Ioanna and Manouk have been elected for the Board of the [...]

Ioanna Tsea master student was interviewed by the Karolinska Institutet Alumni network about her research in the Baryawno lab and her future plans. Read the full interview here.    

Postdoc fellow Dr Jorg Otte awarded a two year fellowship from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation. Dr Otte received the fellowship for his work in organoid modeling in neuroblastoma focusing [...]

Thale Olsen postdoc in the lab has been awarded the prestigious SIOP Award in the Translational category for her discovery of the malignant Schwann precursors in neuroblastoma. The annual SIOP [...]