Congratulations to Irati Beltrán Hernández and Sebas Pronk (postdocs of the Oliveira Lab)! Lumox won the first prize at the Philips Innovation Award: the largest entrepreneurship award in the Netherlands organized by students!
About the start-up:
Lumox is developing a light-activated cancer therapy that selectively targets only cancer cells — reducing the need for invasive surgery. Especially promising for head and neck cancers, their approach minimizes harm to healthy tissue and could expand to other solid tumors.
In this short video, filmed in Rotterdam, Sebas and Irati introduce their light-activated cancer therapy — designed to kill tumors with precision while sparing healthy tissue.
Anna Akhmanova:
Cellular Dynamics
Lukas Kapitein: Biophysics
Florian Berger:
Theoretical Biophysics
Agathe Chaigne:
Cell division dynamics
Ginny Farías:
Neuronal Organelle Dynamics
Martin Harterink:
C. elegans neurobiology
Casper Hoogenraad: Molecular Neuroscience
Maarten Kole:
Axonal Signalling
Sabrina Oliveira:
Molecular Targeted Therapies
Ihor Smal: Image Analysis, Smart Microscopy and AI
Frederik Verweij:
Extracellular Vesicle Biology