Ángel Álvarez-Prado
@alvarezprado.bsky.social
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Group Leader at LIH | Translational Cancer Immunogenomics Lab #cancer #immunology #genomics #openscience
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I’m beyond thrilled to announce that we’ve been awarded the ERC Starting Grant! 🥳🥳🥳

This exceptional support will let us look into how ageing and genetic variation shape responses to therapy against brain metastatic tumors 🧠

Let’s go! 🤩

#ERCStG #Ageing #Immunogenomics #BrainMetastasis
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📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
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ludwigcancer.bsky.social
A team led by Ludwig Lausanne’s @johannajoyce.bsky.social & former postdoc @alvarezprado.bsky.social reports a potential drug target whose loss in certain GBM cells triggers antiviral alarms to stall cell proliferation & makes GBM tumors in mice more amenable to anti-cancer immunity.
bit.ly/4nhZ7Bj
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itaiyanai.bsky.social
Legend David Baltimore died yesterday. He understood the way things should work: "the real contribution of MIT is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It takes ideas seriously, but the people are relatively informal. They are not self-aggrandizing the way academics can be."
alvarezprado.bsky.social
I’m beyond thrilled to announce that we’ve been awarded the ERC Starting Grant! 🥳🥳🥳

This exceptional support will let us look into how ageing and genetic variation shape responses to therapy against brain metastatic tumors 🧠

Let’s go! 🤩

#ERCStG #Ageing #Immunogenomics #BrainMetastasis
erc.europa.eu
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Reposted by Ángel Álvarez-Prado
johannajoyce.bsky.social
How can we reawaken the body’s own anti-viral defenses to fight brain cancer?

Delighted to share our new study where we now answer this question, led by the brilliant @alvarezprado.bsky.social who is now an independent PI at LIH Luxembourg 👏👏

#BrainTIME 🧠🦠🧪
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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helloeacr.bsky.social
What a wonderful week we’ve had here together in Lisbon for #EACR2025! Thank you to everyone who attended, presented at and helped organise this fantastic event. Sign up here for updates about EACR 2026 in Budapest… 👀 eacr.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
alvarezprado.bsky.social
Good to have some measurable readouts supporting something which was already obvious… #mass_surveillance #AI #computer-vision
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A paper in Nature suggests that computer-vision research is increasingly contributing to the development of surveillance technology. go.nature.com/4l6tRV2 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows human data extraction in computer-vision papers and downstream patents.
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itaiyanai.bsky.social
90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.
alvarezprado.bsky.social
Yet another reason to rethink the current publication system towards an alternative which prioritises publishing reliable science over profit, protects scientists and their research and values the work we all do to communicate new knowledge. We can, but do we want to? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue
Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.
www.nature.com
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johannajoyce.bsky.social
Excited to see our image on the cover of #Immunity today 🤩

Congrats to the amazing @lbejarano.bsky.social & all authors for our #brain #tumor #vasculature study

www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Huge 🙏 🙏 to the v talented @joanagcc.bsky.social for creating this super cover 🧠🧪

@cp-immunity.bsky.social
On the cover: The blood-brain barrier is a defining feature of brain tumors, shaping their biology and therapeutic response. In this issue, Bejarano et al. use single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial analysis to construct a vascular atlas of primary and metastatic brain tumors, revealing distinct alterations in endothelial and mural cells. Glioblastomas undergo substantial vascular remodeling compared to low-grade gliomas, while brain metastases exhibit even greater permeability and increased immune cell interactions. This unveiling of vascular heterogeneity is depicted as a red pencil coloring in the intricate details of tumor-associated blood vessels within a map of the human brain wherein a tumor is surrounded by diverse immune cells. Image by Joana C. Carvalho.
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msmelanoma.bsky.social
@contracancerinv.bsky.social: GRACIASx27000 (récord de registro en la XII Carrera hoy en Madrid), aunque ese número debería de multiplicarse por muchísimos miles más, por la cantidad innumerable de personas con cáncer y de investigadores/as que se benefician de vuestro apoyo. Un abrazo muy fuerte!
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alvarezprado.bsky.social
Nice run through the beautiful forest of Strassen to contribute to the non-stop 24h race of the LIH team for #Relais2025Lux Together against #cancer, let’s go team!! 🔥
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johannajoyce.bsky.social
How does the #vasculature regulate #immune cell infiltration & function across different brain tumors? 🧠🧪

Excited to share our latest study in #Immunity where we uncover some interesting answers— led by the amazing @lbejarano.bsky.social 🤩👏🏻

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@cp-immunity.bsky.social

www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
alvarezprado.bsky.social
Extraordinary resource for the #brain_cancer community from @johannajoyce.bsky.social lab, led by the equally extraordinary @lbejarano.bsky.social, so happy to see this out! 👏 👏 👏
ludwigcancer.bsky.social
Researchers led by Ludwig @fbm-unil.bsky.social’s
@lbejarano.bsky.social & @johannajoyce.bsky.social analyzed individual cells of the blood-brain barrier across brain tissue, primary brain tumors & brain metastases, creating a vascular atlas to guide the design of new therapies.

bit.ly/4bFqwYY
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This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the @braintumourcharity.bsky.social, they’re doing a fantastic job helping not only us scientists, but also patients and families ❤️

Thank you! 🙏
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Researcher Dr @alvarezprado.bsky.social, one of our Future Leaders' grant holders, has recently become the group leader of his own research team at the Luxembourg Institute of Health! Find out more about Angel’s research and his new lab: bit.ly/3DZW6UN
Future Leader Spotlight: Dr Ángel Álvarez-Prado
One of our Future Leaders, Dr Ángel Álvarez-Prado, is now leading his own research group at the Luxembourg Institute of Health. Read more.
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alvarezprado.bsky.social
It is disappointing that we still need to fight against social exclusion and discrimination, it is discouraging to witness abusive governments attempt to shut down critical thinking, but we will stand together for human dignity, freedom and knowledge as a vehicle to protect these. Please sign ⬇️
johannajoyce.bsky.social
Now, more than ever, the #global #science community needs to stand together - #united against those who attack science 🧪, who seek to diminish #scientists, who destroy critical programs that advance #equality, #diversity and #inclusion

Please consider to join us in signing the #MilanDeclaration
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johannajoyce.bsky.social
Excited to share a new paper from our lab 😀

We investigate the tumor microenvironment - to reveal factors influencing cancer progression & therapy response 🔬🧪

So we naturally wanted to ask - does the gut #microbiome influence brain #metastasis 🦠 🧠?

Massara et al 2025

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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helloeacr.bsky.social
Professor @charlesswanton.bsky.social will be opening the #EACR2025 Annual Congress with his Keynote Talk: 'Myeloid Mayhem: Inflammation driven lung cancer initiation and progression'

Explore the impressive scientific programme: 2025.eacr.org/programme
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who.int
WHO @who.int · Feb 4
Today is #WorldCancerDay

Did you know❓

Vaccination against #hepatitisB can help prevent liver cancer in children, while #HPV vaccination for young girls can reduce the risk of #CervicalCancer later in life.

Learn more 👉bit.ly/2NeFF8B
Vaccination against hepatitis B can help prevent liver cancer in children, against human papillomavirus (HPV) in young girls can help prevent cervical cancer later in life.