Jo Vandesompele
- Full Professor
- Co-Head of the OncoRNA lab
Contact
Campus UZ, C. Heymanslaan 10, Blok B (entrance 36), 9000 Ghent
Postal address: Campus UZ, C. Heymanslaan 10, MRB1 (entrance 34), 9000 Ghent
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Personalia
Biography
- 2007 - present: Professor - Ghent University
- 2002: PhD - Ghent University
- 1997: Master Bioscience Engineering - Ghent University
Member of
- Cancer Research Institute Ghent
- Biogazelle
- pxlence
- BIOMARKED
- Centre for Bioassay Development and Screening
- Ghent University Digital PCR Consortium
Research tracks
Expertise
- Digital PCR
- PCR
- Cancer
- RNA/DNA
- Applied bioinformatics
- DNA and RNA sequencing
- Liquid biopsy
- Non-coding RNA
Publications
Key publications
- Longitudinal evaluation of serum microRNAs as biomarkers for neuroblastoma burden and therapeutic p53 reactivation. (2023) NAR Cancer.
- Whole transcriptome profiling of liquid biopsies from tumour xenografted mouse models enables specific monitoring of tumour-derived extracellular RNA. (2022) NAR Cancer.
- Charting Extracellular Transcriptomes in The Human Biofluid RNA Atlas. (2020) Cell Reports.
- Melanoma addiction to the long noncoding RNA SAMMSON. (2016) Nature.
- The miR-17-92 microRNA cluster regulates multiple components of the TGF-beta pathway in neuroblastoma. (2010) Molecular Cell.