Cancer Predisposition and Precision Oncology Lab

Research interests

• Improvement of prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of cancer
• Focus on germline cancer predisposition with a major interest in gynecological tumors, pancreatic cancer and primary immunodeficiencies
• Study of DNA repair mechanisms involved in cancer (predisposition) by in vivo functional assessment in zebrafish
• Development of a zebrafish xenograft platform to predict tumor response to treatments
• Monitoring studies on liquid biopsies for early detection and therapy of cancer 

More information about the Cancer Predisposition and Precision Oncology Lab

• Website of the Cancer Predisposition and Precision Oncology Lab
• Cancer Predisposition and Precision Oncology Lab on Instagram
• Publications
• Doctoral dissertations 

More information about Prof. Kathleen Claes

• Prof. Kathleen Claes is principal investigator and lab supervisor of the DNA laboratory of the Center for Medical Genetics Ghent
• Prof. Kathleen Claes is member of
  • Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG group leader)
  • Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA)
  • ENIGMA consortium
  • European Reference Network for rare genetic tumour risk syndromes (ERN-GENTURIS)