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Researcher
Franki Speleman
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Promotor-spokesperson
01 January 2022 → 31 December 2025
Replication fork protector dependency factors: novel targets for combination treatment and immunomodulation in neuroblastoma (REINFORCE)
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2023 → 31 December 2026
Spatial-omics deciphering of cellular and molecular responses to enhanced MYCN/ATR-CHK1 synthetic lethality in high-risk neuroblastoma
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
As
Promotor
01 March 2011 → 31 December 2014
A DNA methylation signature as biomarker for prognosis in children with neuroblastoma
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 March 2010 → 28 February 2013
A DNA methylation signature as biomarker for prognosis in children with neuroblastoma
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 November 2019 → 31 October 2023
A human pluripotent stem cell derived differentiation model for the study of normal and transformed sympathoadrenal progenitors
Fellow: Stéphane Van Haver
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2010 → 30 April 2016
Analysing and Striking the Sensitivities of Embryonal Tumours
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015
An epigenetic DNA modification signature as a biomarker for prognosis in children with neuroblastoma
Fellow: Anneleen Decock
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 May 2018 → 30 April 2022
An integrated functional proteomics platform for the study of normal development and disease
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Array comparative genomic hybridization (Array CGH)
Funding: Regional and community funding: various
01 October 2007 → 17 March 2008
Array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) study of submicroscopic genomic rearrangements in patients with unexplained mental retardation.
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2018 → 30 September 2019
Beurs EVDS Siebe Loontiens: Unraveling the functionality of PHF6 in normal and malignant T-cell development and its cooperativity with established oncogenes through zebrafish modeling
Fellow: Siebe Loontiens
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 October 2017 → 31 December 2020
BRIP1 and FOXM1 controlling replication stress in the neuroblastoma tumor genome
Fellows: Suzanne Vanhauwaert
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2020 → 31 October 2024
BRIP1 controlling replicative stress in the neuroblastoma tumor genome: functional exploration and zebrafish modelling
Fellow: Elien Hilgert
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 April 2012 → 31 December 2017
Cancer cells and their microenvironment: from gene regulatory networks to therapy
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 October 2007 → 01 October 2008
Characterisation and in vivo validation of the therapeutic potential of JAK/STAT antagonists in neuroblastoma
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2014
Characterization of the p53 network and exploration of p53-dependent and p53-independent molecular therapy in neuroblastoma
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2016 → 31 December 2020
Computational probing of replicative stress resistance and induced G-quadruplex resolving processes in embryonic stem or cancer cells
Fellows: Christophe Van Neste
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2007 → 31 December 2009
Construction of a tissue array for 'high-troughput' detection of genomic aberrations and protein profiling in neuroblastoom
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2010 → 31 October 2016
Deregulated transcriptional networks of regulatory miRNAs and protein coding genes in the pathogenesis of cancer
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2019
Drug resistance in MYC/MYCN driven tumor entities as a consequence of replicative stress induced DNA damage response: an entry point for synthetic lethal drugs
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2015 → 30 September 2016
Dual targeting of ALK and RET: establishing a novel basis for the treatment of neuroblastoma
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2015 → 31 December 2017
Dynamic interplay between DNA mehtylation, histone modifications and the activity of super enhancers in the pathogenesis of immature T-ALL
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2019
Epigenetic re-activation of T-ALL tumor suppressors under control of TLX1driven enhancer RNAs.
Fellows: Karen Verboom
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 May 2016 → 31 July 2020
ERAcoSysMed _ JTC 2015 OPTIMIZE NOTE: Optimizing the first-line therapy for aggressive neuroblastoma system by medical strategies against secondary resistance.
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2007 → 31 December 2009
European Embryonal Tumor Pipeline
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2015
European Network for Cancer research in Children and Adolescents (ENCCA)
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 January 2015 → 31 December 2017
Exploring the TLX1-PHF6 cooperative interrelationship in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia through zebrafish modeling
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2018
Exploring the TLX1-PHF6 cooperative interrelationship in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia through zebrafish modeling
Fellow: Siebe Loontiens
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2007 → 31 December 2011
From genes to functional defects in hereditary and malignant diseases
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Functional study of the ALK-F1174 mutation in
Fellow: Shana Claeys
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2009 → 30 December 2011
Genetic and functional study of MYCN target genes in signaling and metabolic pathways and their therapeutic potential in neuroblastoma.
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2014
Genetic defects in chromatin regulators in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
15 October 2007 → 31 December 2010
Genome wide screening for methylation defects, nonsense mutaions and tumour-related microRNA expression profiles in neuroblastoma
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 November 2018 → 31 October 2023
Genomic analyses of liquid biopsies for diagnosis, monitoring and therapeutic stratification of paediatric cancers.
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2009
Genomic and transcriptoomproflering neuroblastoma: identification of prognostic diagnostic expression signatures, unraveling the MYCN transcriptional network and study of the biological role v chromosome 17q gain..
Fellow: Jo Vandesompele
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2017
HBP1 as novel therapeutic target in ALK- and MYCN-driven neuroblastoma
Fellow: Shana Claeys
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2018
Identification and study of NOTCH1 regulated long noncoding RNAs driving T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia formation
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2014
Identification of critical on mTOR effector pathways in NF1-related tumorigenesis
Fellow: Ophélia Maertens
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2009 → 30 December 2011
Identification of deregulated microRNA expression in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia by use of microRNA specific arrayCGH
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Identification of direct and miRNA-regulated MYCN target genes and analysis of their involvement in signaling pathways and epigenetic control.
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2019
Identification of novel therapeutic targets through multi-level (epi) genomic landscaping of replicative stress resistant neuroblastoma
Fellows: Kaat Durinck
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2011
Identification of perturbed miRNAs during neuroblasoma development using neuroblasts as normal counterparts
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2018
IncuCyte S3 Live-Cell Analysis System
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 January 2008 → 30 December 2013
Integrated molecular profiling in neuroblastoma: identification of new molecular therapeutic targets and optimalised prognostic classification
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2018
Integration of long noncoding RNAs in miRNA/mRNA regulatory networks in t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2020
Investigation of the Polycomb-associated RNA sequence space and functional consequences
Fellows: Lieselot Carrette
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2016 → 31 October 2021
Long noncoding RNAs in cancer: deciphering the functional role of the dark matter of the human cancer genome
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2008 → 31 December 2010
MicroRNA's in neuroblastoma
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2007 → 30 April 2009
Molecular signature recognition for improved diagnosis, prognosis and follow-up in neuroblastoma
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2014
Molecular therapy of neuroblastoma: a p53-oriented appraoch
Fellow: Tom Van Maerken
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2007 → 31 December 2010
MYCN deregulated transcription in neuroblastome: study of direct mRNA and miRNA regulated target genes
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 October 2016 → 31 December 2021
Novel combination therapies to combat therapy resistant neuroblastoma: translating pre-clinical investigations to clinical trials
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 January 2010 → 31 December 2015
PHF6: a new tumor suppressor gene in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2015
Preclinical evaluation of the nutlin molecule RG7112 in neuroblastoma
Fellow: Tom Van Maerken
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2024
Preclinical investigation of RRM2-CHK1 combinatorial drugging in neuroblastoma
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2016 → 31 March 2017
purchase of a technical platform
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2008
Quantitative proteome analysis of MYCN oncoprotein function and identification of molecular therapeutic targets in the neuroblastoma
Fellow: Tom Van Maerken
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2015
Reconstructing m(i)RNA regulatory networks implicated in invasion and metastasis in neuroblastoma
Fellow: Katleen De Preter
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2017
Reconstruction of dynamic initiation and progression gene expression regulatory networks in neuroblastoma
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2017
Reconstruction of functional molecular networks in ALK mutated neuroblastomas
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2017
Reduction of chemotherapy driven late adverse effects through targeted molecular therapies in high-risk pediatric cancers
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2019
Replicative stress induced DNA damage response signaling at the crossroad between embryonic stem cells and MYC(N) driven tumours
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2016
Research Grant Emmanuel Van de Schueren to Suzanne Vanhauwaert: BRIP1 and BIRC5 as novel therapeutic targets in neuroblastoma
Fellow: Suzanne Vanhauwaert
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2020
RRM2 controlled replicative stress resistance as a druggable DNA copy number driven cell state in MYC(N) driven cancers
Fellows: Carolina de Carvalho Nunes
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 March 2014 → 28 February 2017
RUNX2 as a driver of poor prognostic early T-cell progenitor leukemia
Fellow: Filip Matthijssens
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 October 2011 → 10 October 2014
Selection of driver genes and neuronal differentiation gene modules in neuroblastoma through an integrated genomic analysis
Fellow: Annelies Fieuw
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2019 → 31 December 2021
SOX11 as mediator of the adrenergic cell state in neuroblastoma: towards cell precision medicine
Fellow: Bieke Decaesteker
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2014
STAND UP TO CANCER: Integration of individual cancer genes in signalisation network in pediatric tumors
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 December 2017 → 30 November 2018
Startersbeurs EVDS Lisa Depestel: The chromatin modifier PHF6 as adaptor in gene-gating coupled replicative stress in neuroblastoma and T-ALL
Fellows: Lisa Depestel
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2014
Study of neuroblastoma oncogenesis through mRNA and miRNA expression profiling of normal neuroblasts and neuroblastoma stem cells
Fellow: Katleen De Preter
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2015 → 31 December 2017
Targeting the leukemic cancer stem cell in Early T-cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ETP-ALL)
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2018
The chromatin modifier BRD3 as a key novel player in DNA repair and vulnerable therapeutic target in neuroblastoma
Fellows: Kaat Durinck
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2021
The chromatin modifier PHF6 as adaptor in gene-gating coupled replicative stress in neuroblastoma and T-ALL
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2018
The function of PHF6 in normal T-cell development and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Fellow: Pieter Rondou
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2019 → 30 July 2024
The PHF6 - TLX1 cooperativity and the IL7R-JAK3 signaling axis as drug target in PHF6 deficient TALL.
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2015 → 31 December 2015
The PHF6 - TLX1 cooperativity and the IL7R-JAK3 signaling axis as drug target in PHF6 deficient T-ALL
Fellow: Kaat Durinck
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2018 → 31 August 2021
The role of BRCA1 as oncogenic replicative stress resistor in MYCN driven neuroblastoma
Fellow: Kaat Durinck
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2021 → 31 December 2024
The role of BRIP1 in MYCN driven neuroblastoma formation: from mechanism to drugging
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
The role of long noncoding RNAs in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Fellow: Annelynn Wallaert
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2014
The role of microRNA's in the pathogenesis of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2014
The role of miRNA expression in normal and malignant T-cel development
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2010 → 05 January 2016
The role of miRNAs in neuroblastoma tumor initiation
Fellow: Anneleen Beckers
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 October 2009 → 30 September 2013
The role of PHF6 in normal and malign T-cell development.
Fellow: Joni Van der Meulen
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2014
The role of PHF6 in normal T-cell development and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
09 December 2010 → 08 December 2011
The role of PHF6 in normal T-cell development and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 November 2019 → 31 October 2023
The role of super-enhancer regulated SOX11 in regulation of SWI/SNF and PRC2 activity in adrenergic neuroblastoma
Fellow: Amber Louwagie
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
The role of the ETS transcription factor ETV5 as executer of ALK oncogenic signaling
Fellow: Irina Lambertz
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2021 → 30 September 2025
The role of the SOX11 lineage-dependency factor as epigenetic master regulator in neuroblastoma
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2019
The TLX1 epigenetic enhancer lncRNAome in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2016 → 30 June 2020
Transcan-2 cofund JTC 2014
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2013
Unraveling the role of PHF6 in normal T cell development and T-cell acute leukemia
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2010 → 30 November 2014
Unraveling the role of PHF6 in normal T-cell development and T-cell acute leukemia
Fellow: Pieter Rondou
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2010 → 05 January 2016
Unraveling the role of PHF6 in normal T cell development and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Fellow: Kaat Durinck
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 May 2024 → 30 April 2025
Validation of Actionable Genomic ABerrations in a paediatric Oncology Network for Doctorate students
Fellow: Joshua Robert Goulding
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 December 2020 → 30 November 2024
Validation of Actionable Genomic ABerrations in a paediatric Oncology Network for Doctorate students
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 January 2020 → 31 December 2021
Validation of ferroptosis-sensitizing combination therapies in patient-derived neuroblastoma models
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2015 → 31 December 2017
Zebrafish modeling of neuroblastoma: novel tools for "accelerated" driver gene discovery and pre-clinical testing
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 January 2015 → 31 December 2017
Zebrafish transgenic and patient xenograft transplantation models of pediatric tumors for the pre-clinical drug testing
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
As
Copromotor
01 May 2022 → 30 April 2026
A patient derived xenograft (PDX) platform for in vivo evaluation of novel anticancer therapies
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2012
Deciphering the molecular pathogenesis of neuroblastoma through next generation genome analysis
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 May 2024 → 30 April 2028
FullPicture: Combining Spectral Flow Cytometry with High-Speed Cell Imaging to enable comprehensive profiling of plant and animal cells and their components in real time.
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012
Identification of causal mutations in patients with unexplained mental retardation and congenital abnormalities by high throughput sequencing of selected candidate genes
Fellow: Sarah Vergult
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2022
Improved outcome prediction of children with neuroblastoma using an integrated m/miRNA and DNA methylation signature (Stichting tegen Kanker)
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
15 December 2022 → 14 December 2024
Incucyte S3: Comprehensive cellular phenotyping using high-throughput live cell imaging
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
15 June 2012 → 30 June 2016
IVIS Lumina II Bioluminescence camera for laboratory animal research
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 June 2015 → 31 May 2017
Longitudinal imaging of cellular dynamics with a biostation IM-Q (microscope with sensitive CCD camera and integrated incubator)
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2022
Long noncoding RNAs in cancer: deciphering the functional role of the dark matter of the human cancer genome
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 May 2024 → 30 April 2028
Photolithographic DNA printer for massively parallel synthesis of DNA oligonucleotides for spatial - omics and hybrid capture target enrichment applications
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2021 → 31 October 2025
Scrutinizing selective Aurora Kinase A inhibition as a novel entry point for synthetic lethality in neuroblastoma
Fellow: Muhammad Rishfi
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 May 2022 → 30 April 2026
SpatialConnect: linking tissue biology to the new era of single-cell spatial transcriptomics
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2024 → 31 October 2028
Spatial transcriptomics exploration of neuroblastoma responses to novel experimental drug treatments targeting the DNA damage response.
Fellow: Peter Merseburger
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 May 2020 → 30 April 2024
Stimulated emission depletion microscopy (STED): Nanoscopy for innovative research in the life sciences
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2007 → 30 December 2012
Study on the envolvement of LEMD3 and neighbouring genes on 12q14 in the pathogenesis of conditions with elevated bone density and growth disordes
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2020 → 31 October 2024
Targeting the degradation of proteins involved in neuroblastoma with bivalent ligands.
Fellow: Simon Krols
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 May 2024 → 30 April 2028
ThirdGenT: linking third-generation sequencing of (epi)genomes, (epi)transcriptomes and translatomes to life sciences revolutionizes oncology, rare diseases, microbiology, cell and gene technology, developmental and computational biology
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)