Code
3E009016
Duration
01 October 2016 → 29 February 2020
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Analysis of next-generation sequence data
- Computational transcriptomics and epigenomics
- Transcription and translation
- Urology
- Clinical genetics and molecular diagnostics
Keywords
prostate cancer
RNA
exosomes
Project description
Every human body cell secretes very small vesicles full of cell material, called exosomes. We hypothesize that exosomes contain a specific RNA cargo characteristic for the cell of origin, and can thus be used for (prostate) cancer diagnosis in blood plasma. In addition, the role of exosomal RNA in prostate cancer initiation and progression will be investigated.