The FNRS Board of Directors has decided to award 4 Additional Research Credits (ARC) in oncology from the Suzanne Duschene, Serge Rousseau and Docteur Jean Gérard Funds managed by the King Baudouin Foundation. These ARC make it possible to allocate an additional €15,000 to FNRS Postodoctoral researchers to cover their operating costs throughout their term of office.

The recipients are :

• Arezoo Dadashzadeh (UCLouvain) for her project : Engineering fertility: a novel strategy for restoring endocrine and reproductive functions in cancer patients.
• Alexandra Degraeve (UCLouvain) for her project : Cachexia and gut microbiome: triggering factors for phenoconversion and drug toxicity in cancer?
• Céline Maquet (ULiège) for her project : Targeting Activation of CD4 T cells by engineered DCs as Innovative Cancer therapy.
• Alizée Vercauteren Drubbel (ULB) for her project : Unraveling the molecular mechanisms driving columnar metaplasia and cancer development from squamous foregut progenitors in vivo.