Prof. Pieter Mestdagh
- Full Professor
- CRIG group leader
- 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
- 2015 - present: Professor - Ghent University
- 2011 - 2015: Postdoc - Ghent University
- 2011: PhD - Ghent University
- 2006: Master Bioscience Engineering - Ghent University
- 2004: Master Industrial Engineering Biochemistry - Ghent University
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Research tracks
Expertise
- RNA
- Oncology
- Transcriptomics
- Non-coding RNA
Publications
Key publications
- Melanoma addiction to the long noncoding RNA SAMMSON. (2016) Nature.
- Lung tumours reprogram pulmonary dendritic cell immunogenicity at the microRNA level. (2014) International Journal of Cancer.
- LIN28B induces neuroblastoma and enhances MYCN levels via let-7 suppression. (2012) Nature Genetics.
- Synthetic lethality between Rb, p53 and Dicer or miR-17-92 in retinal progenitors suppresses retinoblastoma formation. (2012) Nature Cell Biology.
- miRNA expression profiling enables risk stratification in archived and fresh neuroblastoma tumor samples. (2011) Clinical Cancer Research.