News from
the lab
MAR 2025
The VOLUMINEX project has started! Benedetta and Delilah attended the kick-off meeting in Stockholm. We are looking forward to work with this international team to make 3D spatial transcriptomics possible.
NOV 2024
We are proud to be part of the VOLUMINEX consortium, which received a Pathfinder Open grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC)! This international network combines Benedetta’s & Delilah’s expertise in biology with chemistry (KI, KTH, Single Technologies, Sweden) and mathematics (SU, France) to develop a novel 3D spatial transcriptomics technique applicable to organoids and tissue.
NOV 2024
Benedetta has been elected as a member of the EMBO Young Investigator Program!
Several members of the lab attended the Brain Center Research Day in Utrecht. Delilah presented the lab’s latest work on our FeBO model. Roxy and Francesco both pitched their PhD work!
NOV 2024
Benedetta attended the 31st annual ESGCT congress in Roma and gave a talk about our recent work on human brain organoids to study aspects of development and cancer.
OCT 2024
Benedetta and Delilah attended the CRISPR screening in cancer discovery 2024 meeting at Curie Institute in Paris. Both Delilah and Benedetta gave a talk about CRISPR applied to human organoids and our recent CRISPR screening efforts in the context of fatty liver disease. Two talks, double the fun!
SEP 2024
SEP 2024
Benedetta and Delilah attended the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (ISDN) 2024 meeting in Montpellier. Benedetta presented the lab’s latest efforts developing human brain organoid models and their use to unravel aspects of development.
Benedetta and Delilah attended the meeting “Genome Editing: from basic principles to applied science” at Novo Nordisk Foundation in Copenhagen. Benedetta presented our latest efforts to combine CRISPR with organoids to build powerful human disease models.
JUNE 2024
Delilah received a Young Investigator Grant from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF). We are very excited to explore the connection between fatty liver, metabolism, and liver cancer.
APRIL 2024
Another successful edition of OrganoidNL, where Francesco, Anna and Roxy presented their work as poster presentations, and a flash talk for Francesco. Looking forward to organize the future editions!
APRIL 2024
Delilah gave a digital webinar at the ISSCR Science Spotlight series “Stem Cell Engineering: Vascularization, Organoids, Devices, and Translation”
MARCH 2024
Happy to see our recent FeBO paper covered in an article in the Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant! A nice opportunity to discuss our current research focusing on brain cancer modelling using FeBOs.
FEB 2024
Benedetta gave a seminar on human organoids as models to study development and disease as part of the Systems Biology Lecture Series at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, Germany.
FEB 2024
Check some of the press coverage of our latest tissue-derived human fetal brain organoid story!
JAN 2024
Great to see our latest story highlighted in the New York Times!
A beautiful image of an ENO!
DEC 2023
OCT 2023
Anna gave a talk about her work at the EMBO symposium “Organoids: modelling organ development and disease in 3D culture” in Heidelberg, Germany.
Many congrats also to Anna for being the recipient of the EMBO|EMBL Symposia fellowship!
SEP 2023
Benedetta and Delilah presented the lab’s work on genomic engineering at the GETRADI consortium summer school scientific symposium in Leiden, NL.
SEP 2023
Francesco presented his work at the Neuro Oncology PMC retreat in Wolfheze, NL.
JUN 2023
Delilah and Benedetta attended the 2nd International Symposium on Regenerative Hepatology in Vienna, Austria, where we presented our recent liver work.
JUN 2023
Benedetta and Delilah received a grant from the Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation (FCF) to continue our work on fibrolamellar carcinoma.
MAY 2023
Delilah gave a seminar for the doctoral school “Biomedical Science” at the faculty of medicine of Geneva, Switzerland.
MAY 2023
Our recent paper on fibrolamellar carcinoma modelling in organoids got highlighted by the Dutch newspaper NRC!
APRIL 2023
Benedetta and Delilah joined the FCF community in Greenwich, NY (USA) to present the lab’s efforts on understanding fibrolamellar cancer biology.
MARCH 2023
We had the great opportunity to discuss our recent paper, as well as our joint work and the concept behind our lab in an interview with The Scientist!
MARCH 2023
March 31st marked the first OrganoidNL Symposium in Amsterdam, NL! We had the pleasure to be part of the organizing committee.
Anna presented her work with
a poster and a flash-talk!
NOV 2022
Delilah and Benedetta presented their work on liver organoids in the Organoids and Beyond: Next Generation In Vitro Platforms for Preclinical Drug Discovery organized by Crown Bioscience in Leiden, NL.
SEP 2022
Open competition M Grant from the NWO (Dutch research council) awarded to support our research into human brain development using organoids!
AUG 2022
Delilah attended the Keystone Meeting on Inter Organ Crosstalk in Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) in Whistler, BC, Canada. She presented our latest work on fatty liver disease modelling in organoids.
JULY 2021
The lab received a grant from the Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation (FCF) to start investigating fibrolamellar carcinoma using organoids.
