Big congratulations to Francesca Manara on defending PhD thesis👏 Exceptional given adversities she faced including tragic loss of her mentor, COVID-interruptions and big move to our new bldg. Our Branch & Indian Republican are proud of her results, wish her an exciting postdoc in New York🍎

I was honoured to be speaker at Late-Breaking Research Session at #AACR2023 Meeting in Orlando, FL. My presentation focused on our results on origins of #childhoodcancer. Grateful to my Branch members at Indian Republican and collaborators without whom results wouldn’t have been possible

Excited to be invited #seminar #speaker at University of North Carolina at #ChapelHill. Highly stimulating & constructive discussions with collaborators on impact of in utero exposures on #epigenome and #childhoodcancer risk. I thank prof Rebecca Fry for invitation & discussions

Delighted that our brand-new labs are now fully operational & welcome 🤗 collaborators/visitors in IARC. Our Branch continues to develop/share state-of-the-art lab tools and train new cancer researchers in interdisciplinary studies on cancer etiology and prevention incl LMICs

Delighted to be Opening #Keynote #Speaker at #FEBS Young Scientists’ Forum (in beautiful Tours, France) that brings together outstanding young #scientists from Europe aimed at promoting science. My keynote was focused on #epigenome deregulation & #environmental origins of #Cancer

Honoured to be #keynote speaker at #Symposium on environmental health #disparities in #childhood #cancer in Houston. Striking inequalities exist in cancer incidence, mortality and survival. My keynote focused on #epigenetics origins and environmental causes of childhood cancer

Thrilled to welcome Caroline Poubel as postdoc in our team at IARC. Caroline won IARC-Children with Cancer UK #fellowship to work on project aimed at discovering #epigenetic precursors & #biomarkers of #childhood #leukemia, most common #cancer in 👩‍👧 with poor survival in low resource setting

Honoured to be #speaker at Princess Takamatsu Symposium on Environmental Impact on Cancer Evolution in Tokyo 🇯🇵. More evidence challenges #genetics multi-hit model of cancer as driver mutations are not sufficient for cancer to emerge. Could "promoters" act through #epigenetics?

📣 SAVE THE DATE! Delighted to announce first #symposium2024 "Pediatric cancers: from origins and causes to therapeutic perspectives" #childhoodcancer #research 📅 29-31 May 2024 in #Paris 🇫🇷 📅 Abstract submission deadline: 29 February 2024 👉👉👉 programme-pediac.com/en/pediac-symp…

Happy to share my new #painting IARC Project Tree on #WorldCancerDay. I attempted to portray @IARC/WHO research portfolio in Biennium 2024/25 but also emphasize importance of all our scientists and staff (by featuring their names in tree roots). #research for #Cancer #Prevention

IARC is happy to welcome @PrinsesMaximaC to explore research collaborations in sub-Saharan #Africa! Together, we aim to gain insight on the burden of #ChildhoodCancer via better understanding of #awareness, #epidemiology, and #outcomes.

Congratulations 👏to Dr Mariana Araujo on successfully defending #PhD thesis at IARC on discovery of #epigenetic driver genes in #breastcancer. Earning PhD is huge stepping stone towards her career in 🦀 research. Great enriching experience to be supervisor of Mariana thesis

Delighted to share that our study on origins of children Burkitt Lymphoma (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…) is published in @PNAS. Results may help explain why this endemic cancer develops more commonly in regions in Africa than elsewhere. Grateful to IARC & external collaborators

#WorldFoodSafetyDay Aflatoxins are toxins produced by fungi in some food crops that cause #LiverCancer. However, we don’t fully understand the scale of the problem. IARC’s Epigenomics & Mechanisms Branch works with World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate the burden of contamination & related disease

Our latest study from #IARC just published uncovers epigenetic markers detectable at birth linked to childhood leukemia! This discovery brings hope for prevention, early diagnosis & targeted treatment. See how we traced the origins of cancer back to birth rdcu.be/dXVZG

Exciting KickOff for CICERO Project! Led by IARC, with partners #PrincessMaximaC & #Africa, CICERO's ambition is to tackles #childhood #cancer in region where it’s often undiagnosed. Funded by €2M grant from 🇳🇱 we will study environ risks, #epigenomics & treatment compliance

Blantyre, Malawi: Kick-Off meeting of CICERO Project on #ChildhoodCancer in Sub-Saharan Africa, with @PrinsesMaximaC & partners from sub-Saharan #Africa🇲🇼🇰🇪🇹🇿. Funding from Gov of Netherlands🇳🇱. Mission: to address knowledge gaps around childhood #cancer in sub-Saharan Africa.

🌟 Excited to share our preprint on BioRxiv! 🌟 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We used powerful CRISPR screen to reveal an epigenetic driver (epidriver, BAP1) in #Breastcancer, disrupting cell processes & driving tumorigenesis. Huge congrats to Mariana Araujo for her stellar PhD work 🎉

IARC’s Dr @ZdenkoHerceg visits جامعة الملك سعود بن عبدالعزيز للعلوم الصحية, #Riyadh, #SaudiArabia🇸🇦, to deliver an invited seminar. Looking forward to discussions, fostering collaborations in #cancer research, & strengthening global efforts in cancer prevention. 📅26 Feb, 12:30-13:30 📍KSAU-HS Convention Center

I'm deeply honored to be elected a Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Croatia 🇭🇷 and to lecture on epigenetic & cancer in Zagreb. 🧬🎓 A deeply meaningful recognition - collective achievement shaped by mentors, Family, colleagues IARC 🙏 #Epigenetics #CancerResearch