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Project

Cancer-specific circulating RNAs as biomarkers for diagnosis and therapy response monitoring.

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01D22819

Duration

01 October 2019 → 31 October 2020

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Pieter Mestdagh

Fellow

Annelien Morlion

Research disciplines

Medical and health sciences
- Bio-informatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
- Cancer diagnosis

Keywords

RNA plasma biomarker cancer

Project description

This project focuses on circulating RNAs in plasma. The aim is to evaluate to what extent changes in tumor- and tissue-derived long RNA signals correlate with disease state, response to treatment and relapse of cancer patients. This could identify potential biomarkers for diagnosis and therapy
response monitoring.

English

Dutch

English

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