Leila Akkari @LeilaAkkari1 Twitter profile

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Leila Akkari

1 month

So so happy to share our latest lab paper in @NatureComms dissecting the influence of oncogenic pathways on immune cell shaping in #HCC ! A 🧵 1/n

Cancer cell genetics shaping of the tumor microenvironment reveals myeloid cell-centric exploitable...

Nature Communications - Distinct genetic mutations can shape the tumor immune microenvironment. Here the authors generate preclinical mouse models of hepatocellular carcinoma bearing...

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

11 months

Tenured 🙏! Dang it feels amazing! There we are, 6 years after starting this adventure, after building up a research line, a team, a life really… I couldn’t be prouder of my fab lab peeps, of the work we’ve done to get there- it’s only the beginning!!

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

Excited to see our work out @NatureCancer ! Lead by great post doc @LuukvanHooren and fab PhD student @ShannaHandgraaf , helped by @djkloosterman & others-We asked- what happens to the glioblastoma TME that makes IT fails? A 🧵

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

6 months

I really cannot express how honored and excited I am to be part of the fabulous #ERCSYN team receiving this grant! Together with @JoostReek and #AlexanderKros , we are merging our expertise, getting out of our comfort zones to build and apply novel tools against brain cancer 🙏🎉

The Netherlands Cancer Institute

@NKI_nl

6 months

🎉Congratulations to @LeilaAkkari1 who, together with researchers from @UvA_Amsterdam and @UniLeiden will receive an ERC Synergy Grant to develop innovative therapeutic approaches to target glioblastoma. Read more: #ERCSyG

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

Honored and deeply grateful to the @EMBO community for this opportunity to work within a wonderful network of talented young investigators. This wouldn’t be possible without my amazing lab peeps ( @djkloosterman @JeremyTessier9 @LuukvanHooren and all others not on Twitter!)...1/2

EMBO

@EMBO

3 years

EMBO is pleased to announce that thirty life scientists have been selected as EMBO Young Investigators:

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

We wrote a little something on our favorite cell type- the mighty macrophages and how they orchestrate/are affected by different layers of tumor evolution! It was a real pleasure to brainstorm new concepts with the super talented @djkloosterman - a one of a kind student #proudPI

Cell

@CellCellPress

1 year

Now online! Macrophages at the interface of the co-evolving cancer ecosystem

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 months

So proud of @NKI_nl initiative to support women during the challenging times of post partum and pregnancy, by making sure their research can go on with an experienced scientist taking over new mothers project until they come back. This is the way forward.

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

Incredibly proud of this study, not only for the science in it, delineating the potential of harnessing #macrophagesubset dynamics in #gliomas post-radiation, but also its journey to completion, amazing collaborators/friends involved and all I learnt along the way. #happyNewPI .

Johanna Joyce Lab

@Joycelab

4 years

Excited to share our @ScienceTM study on #gliomas revealing dynamic changes in different tumor-associated #macrophage and #microglia populations during the initial response to radiotherapy & in subsequent disease relapse. (1/5)

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

A new macrophage bible @NatRevClinOncol out from @PittetLab and co- with increased appreciation of the diversity of these cells and their clinical relevance- not gonna lie, it's a complex cell type to say the least! Fascinating read- 👏 to the authors!

NatureRevClinOncol

@NatRevClinOncol

2 years

In a Review now published online, Mikael Pittet, Olivier Michielin & Denis Migliorini discuss the clinical relevance of macrophages in cancer, both as biomarkers and in therapeutic approaches

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

8 months

I love this picture for many reasons, the gorgeous background of course, but mainly because of all it represents- how much a mentor/mentee relationship can change your life and guide your steps- incredibly grateful to have (and continue to) learnt from you, Johanna 🤩 #ISREC2023

Johanna Joyce

@Johanna_A_Joyce

8 months

One of the many joys of being a scientist - seeing your former mentees shine!! Incredibly proud of @LeilaAkkari1 , both a phenomenal scientist and person 🤩 #ISREC2023

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

This week, as baby girl turned 6mo, I submitted my tenure package @NKI_nl , after 6 years of being a (not so) #newPI . It's been rough, but also incredibly fulfilling. Short thread on what helped navigate this journey so far, between Covid, miscarriages, pregnancy, post-partum...

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

No better example of how research and the community you build can change your life 🥰. 5 years ago, my dearest friends and fab scientists @elisa_oricchio and @CirielloLab , introduce me to the father of my baby girl. Seeing them holding her today melts my heart #gratefulness ❤️

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

Nothing cuter as a #newPI and #newMom than to see your PhD students and post docs holding your baby girl as they come visit you :) two worlds meet and it’s just wonderful 🥰. @Momademia

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

7 months

A truly wonderful gathering of fabulous scientists and human beings, it was an honor to be part of this crew! Thank you @CedricBlanpain @lab_marine @UlrikeHarjes @BarbMarte for having me 🤩 Adding a great picture of fantastic women in science 💪🏻

VIB Conferences

@VIBConferences

7 months

🏁And that's the end for #THPT23 . We want to thank all the attendees, speakers, & sponsors for making this an unforgettable 2nd edition. We hope you enjoyed yourself, have a safe trip home, and look forward to seeing you at a future VIB Conference! 👋 #VIBConf

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

#BlackinCancerWeek @BlackinCancer - Big Shout-out to these two amazingly talented PhD students, Christel and Awa, working hard to better harness liver (Chris) and brain (A) immune cells for new anti-cancer Tx in our lab. These #WomenInSTEM rock! #proudPI @NKI_nl @oncodeinstitute

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

A great opportunity to come join us @NKI_nl as a junior group leader. State of art (and pretty cheap!) facilities, awesome colleagues and the feeling of being part of a family make our institute more than a workplace. Deadline to apply April 30th-Come see for yourselves!

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

Being a working, nursing mom of a 4 mo, I’m realizing only now that some days are mom intensive, and other career intensive. I guess I thought that the same day could be both…! Now, I just have to learn to accept it, and that’s pretty darn hard… @Momademia #JuniorPIupfortenure

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

What originally started as post doc friends became lifelong and BFFs. 10 years and going strong! Oceans, pandemic, lives apart, tenure tracks etc.. can’t change that :) #reunited #grateful

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

5 years

Very grateful and humbled by all the congratulations from colleagues and friends for our collaborative study with Rene Bernards' lab in @nature ! This has been a wonderful experience for our young lab @NKI_nl @oncodeinstitute . Tweetorial below :)

Barbara Marte

@BarbMarte

5 years

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

#prideamsterdam #Pride2022 . The @NKI_nl was out there on its own boat along the Amsterdam canals! We work altogether to cure #cancer . Proud of our institute and its inclusive spirit- that’s how work is best done! #CancerResearch #gaypride .

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

From across the ocean, I couldn’t be prouder of my PhD student Christel Ramirez for her poster prize at @CellSymposia #CSHallmarks22 !! Such a great recognition of her hard work these past four years on building and using HCC somatic models to study the #TME . Well done Chris 🎉🤩

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

Unsolicited advice to #NewPI out there (😉). Learn to say NO early… that will avoid you spending your weekend, after a crazy busy few weeks, reviewing 11 grants and a paper you’re already late for, when all you need is rest…. #tired

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

5 months

Preparing a #GrandChallenge interview is definitely not easy, but boy how much you learn, and from the best. Pretty incredible to be in this adventure with some of my scientific heroes, very humbling as well. Now we give our best! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 #team OPTIMAL

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

5 years

Our whole lab is so humbled and proud to receive this support, thank you so much @NWO for this opportunity, we will be working hard! Exciting times to be a #NewPI #WomeninSTEM @NKI_nl @oncodeinstitute

NWO Nieuws

@NWONieuws

5 years

85 researchers receive NWO-Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros. With the grant the Vidi laureates will do research on a variety of subjects. See the list of awarded grants for the 2018 round:

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

@DrCynthiaLebron @Momademia Daycare, without a doubt, and if not available (like where I am..), funding to bring in relatives to help during super busy times when private daycare is not an option. As academics, we most of the time are away from family and loved ones, so we suffer +++ from having no help….

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

Huge congratulations to my friend @liamfaller for his well-deserved tenure @NKI_nl after a brillant talk on Friday!! Couldn’t have hoped to get a better colleague as a junior PI these past 5 years. Bravo, felicitations Liam!! #juniorPIsrock #juniorNOmore !

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

Less 3 weeks prior to my ‘official’ maternity leave starts for 1st baby and with tenure eval coming in the spring, this resonates tremendously…I already feel the guilt on both sides- at work and at home… we need to do better and improve scientist #WorkLifeBalance …

Johanna Joyce

@Johanna_A_Joyce

2 years

#LifeWorkBalance Some years ago a colleague told me how his kids would ask him why he had to go into the office so often at weekends to work on grants/ papers. He tried to explain he felt he had no choice - he had to do this to get promoted. He was later denied tenure.. 1/

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

5 years

It’s always a bit awkward to see yourself on screen like this, but I hope it can help sensitize people to why we do this job, and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to do it at @NKI_nl , with amazing colleagues and my even more amazing lab members. Thank you! #womeninSTEMM

The Netherlands Cancer Institute

@NKI_nl

5 years

Hundreds of scientists @NKI_nl dedicate their lives to finding ways to outsmart cancer. Who are they? Meet Leila Akkari, whose scientific curiosity stems from different corners of the globe and drives her to hijack the hijackers. #facesofNKI

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

8 months

As I said- En force! Wonderful few days of excellent science #Isrec2023 🤩. The perks: catching up with friends @elisa_oricchio @CirielloLab , discussing super cool ideas with experts @PittetLab @BatlleLab @Joycelab ,and sleeping 7h/night uninterrupted! You gotta love Lausanne 🧡

Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

9 months

The Akkari lab is coming ‘En force’ to Lausanne- 15 of us! See you all there 🤩 #ISREC2023 @elisa_oricchio @CirielloLab @Joycelab !

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

Thank you @kwf_nl for trusting us with your support to fight brain cancers using these fascinating macrophages! Thrilled we can advance on this project, and so grateful to have fantastic lab members like @djkloosterman #johannaerbani to lead the way!! #proudPI . Let’s get to work!

KWFKankerbestrijding

@kwf_nl

2 years

KWF investeert 9,6 miljoen in 16 onderzoeken gericht op fundamentele vraagstukken. Dat zijn basisvragen zoals: Hoe wordt een gezonde cel een kankercel? En hoe overleven ze? Het antwoord is onmisbaar voor nieuwe doorbraken. Nieuwsbericht: #kankeronderzoek

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

Pride day! Proud of our #DiversityandInclusion team representing @NKI_nl @hetAVL at the Amsterdam pride walk today. #LGBTQ #loveislove #TransRightsAreHumanRights @_alberto_gil @oesterzwamsnack @common_ronak @claire_hoencamp

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

☺️- Thanks again to @CellCellPress and @trendscancer for this great opportunity!

Cell Press

@CellPressNews

4 years

The Future of Cancer Research @LeilaAkkari1 @Samuel_Bakhoum @KrishnaswamyLab @sidichen @stefanispranger @Tanner_Lab @lyssiotis @SamraTurajlic @trendscancer

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

Happy holidays everyone! As the year come to a close, I couldn’t be prouder of this fantastic group of peeps in the lab making this job the best one ever. They are holding the fort while I’m home taking care of my ‘newborn’ project, and doing even better than when I’m there!

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

Scientists should be invited to write opinions @nytimes much more often. Bravo to @VirusesImmunity and @RMedzhitov for informing and appeasing the public with this very clear, beautifully written piece+thank you for representing immunologists worldwide.

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

9 months

The Akkari lab is coming ‘En force’ to Lausanne- 15 of us! See you all there 🤩 #ISREC2023 @elisa_oricchio @CirielloLab @Joycelab !

Efi Tsouri

@EfiTsouri

9 months

On our way to Lausanne for the ISREC-SCCL symposium. Looking forward to some great science 🤩 #Akkarilab @LeilaAkkari1

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

There’s nothing cooler than seeing your friends excel and put forward the best science out there: example number 1- @obenaufa and her functional insights into resistance evolution post targeted therapy and immunotherapy- Visionary! #EMBOcancerEvolution

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

Glad for the opportunity to give some thoughts regarding future prospects of #CancerResearch , and humbled to share the headlines with such talented scientists ‘voices’!

Trends in Cancer

@trendscancer

4 years

What does the future of cancer research look like? Rising leaders in the field @LyssiotisLab @LeilaAkkari1 @Tanner_Lab @Samuel_Bakhoum @stefanispranger @TurajlicLab @KrishnaswamyLab @sidichen share their perspective

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

6 months

IL1b TAMs fueling cancer cell plasticity in PDAC! A tour de force from Renato’s lab, a beautifully executed work that continues to teach us about the multilayered functions of specific macrophage subsets- Bravi tutti!! 🎉🎉🎉👏🏻👏🏻🤩🤩🤩

Renato Ostuni

@OstuniLab

6 months

💥BIG PAPER ALERT💥 So excited to share our latest, out now @Nature ! Here, we uncover a spatially confined interplay between subsets of IL-1b+ macrophages and tumor cells that fuels pathogenic inflammation in pancreatic cancer (1/n)

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

Live conferences are just the best! Thank you to @eriksahailab for putting together such a great meeting with some of my fav researchers as speakers! @shouval @IMalanchi @AshaniTW @megeblad @sastewartlab and many others at the amazing @TheCrick . It was a blast! #CrickCancerConf

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

5 years

Our lab is just awesome. We celebrated our 2 years being open with drinks and dinner, and I got a really nice surprise! Lucky and blessed to have such great peeps. thanks guys! #newPI @NKI_nl @oncodeinstitute

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

Close to a year and a half after this writing adventure started, so very excited to start the work on this project pushing the boundaries of brain biology and chemistry to treat gliomas-proud to lead this consortium with great collab @UniLeidenNews and #AMC ! 🎉🎉🍾🍾🥳🥳

NWO Domain Science (Inactive)

@NWO_Science

2 years

NWO has approved 21 grant applications in the Open Competition Domain Science-XL programme. The topics vary from studying coronavirus Achilles’ heel to learning about danger through the experiences of others. Congratulations to the awarded applicants!

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

10 months

Enjoying some great time and fab science at #CSMyeloidCells2023 ! A short trip (72h) across the world- so making the most of it.

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

Excited (and a little scared too!) to share the floor with such an impressive group of scientists-join us virtually in May to learn more about #Tumorheterogeneity #THP21 . Not surprisingly, I’ll be talking about #Macrophage diversity and plasticity in brain and liver cancers 🤩

VIB

@VIBLifeSciences

3 years

With a stellar line-up the (delayed) virtual first edition of #THPT21 will take place on 5-6 May 2021. Find out everything about the hurdles #Tumorheterogeneity & #cellplasticity cause in the fight against cancer. See the program here: #THPT20 ➡️ #THPT21

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 months

I may not have gotten flowers from hubby today (we’re both too sleep deprived for #ValentinesDay celebration..) but I got loads of love from my fabulous lab and department @NKI_nl ! These are anonymous love notes that were sent to colleagues on the floor 😍❤️🥰. #grateful 🙏

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

Super happy to host @LisaHaas0107 from @NatureCancer at the @NKI_nl today and tomorrow- great overview of the editors commitments to research and the process behind the ‘submit’ button- thanks Lisa for visiting us on-site!

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

My brother, my hero. In face of the despair in Lebanon, the Akkari family reached out to our friends, family and colleagues to bring direct help to people in need in Lebanon. I am in awe of the generosity to many of my tweeps and friends for this initiative. Merci, thank you.

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 month

Such a fantastic dive into brain tumor ecosystems with highlights from recent amazing stories of the @Joycelab led by @RoeltjeMaas @BejaranoLeire - thank you Johanna for this beautiful lecture @EACRnews ! #proudmentee

Neta Erez- ErezLab🎗️

@ErezNeta

1 month

The amazing @Johanna_A_Joyce telling us about the intricate brain microenvironment in primary brain tumor and in brain metastasis #TME #metastasis

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

We put together a little (50pg!) collection of protocols to fully explore and exploit liver tumor samples generated from #HDTVi , and hope that can help others with complex #TME analyses! Well done to PhD student Daniel Taranto for leading the effort and to the whole #liverteam !

Current Protocols

@Curr_Protocols

3 years

Here, @LeilaAkkari1 and cols. ( @NKI_nl ) describe precise procedures to generate, collect, and analyze samples obtained from #HCC somatic mouse models, including multiparameter flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, & histochemistry. ➡️

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

#proudPI with our own Daniel Taranto presenting his PhD work at the #EMBOcancerEvolution meeting in Rimini 😍

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

In cancer biology, we don’t say ‘I love you’, we say: ‘I’m coming in to treat my mice this weekend, do you want me to take care of yours?’ And even when we means the PI :)

Overacre Lab

@OveracreLab

3 years

In immunology we don't say "I love you" we say "I don’t need all of my flow time today, take your time." and I think that's beautiful.

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 months

A fascinating study from @megeblad lab, must read and as @lai9uan said out, we all should chill out a bit more! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 to the team

Cancer Cell

@Cancer_Cell

2 months

Online Now: Chronic stress increases metastasis via neutrophil-mediated changes to the microenvironment

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

Very nice overview of the amazing new issue of @CellCellPress focused on cancer- reviews covering the many faces of tumor ecosystems! Excited for the chance to discuss macrophage co-evolution in this context with @djkloosterman 🙌🎉🤩

Dr. Sri Narasimhan

@Sri_Baqri

1 year

#Macrophages in #cancer - beautifully reviewed by @LeilaAkkari1 @djkloosterman #tumorimmunology @CellCellPress

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

5 years

Tweeps, please retweet- The NKI has 2 junior group leader positions open, deadline (October 14th)- I can vouch for it, it is a wonderful place to work at, with brilliant colleagues, amazing facilities and team spirit...in the cool city of Amsterdam! Join us! @NKI_nl @hetAVL

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@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

Tweeps! The amazing @deVisserKarin is finally on Twitter, let’s give her a warm welcome 🤗! I for one cannot thank her enough for her everlasting support since I joined the @NKI_nl , couldn’t hope for a better role model an mentor next door 🥰. Welcome Karin!

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@LeilaAkkari1

4 months

An amazing time @SanRaffaeleMI hosted by the one and only @OstuniLab , meeting new people, hearing their innovative science, feeling the place’s great vibe in beautiful Milano! Thank you all 🙏 for having me and sharing your insights🤩, I’ll be back 😉☺️!

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@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

#2021InReview . Thank you @LisaHaas0107 and @NatureCancer for the chance to share our thoughts on this challenging past year- resilience and plasticity were key, together with #teambuilding and caring for each other. Looking forward to 2022 now!

Nature Cancer

@NatureCancer

2 years

12 early-career investigators across the globe 🌍 reflect on the challenges faced by their scientific communities in 2021 and highlight emerging opportunities. #2021InReview Read it👇

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@LeilaAkkari1

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I’m excited for this meeting! The (ex)-Beatson, now CRUK Scotland Institute is a great place dear to me, with a community of excellent and super nice scientists- come join us to celebrate it this July !

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

Thrilled to have @ErezNeta at the @NKI_nl today telling us all about #CAFs in breast cancer metastasis! And cherry on top of the cake, catching up and talking about #WomenInSTEM . Thank you Neta for all your advice and support! See you soon :)

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

11 months

Very exciting to be here at the @oncodeinstitute Annual scientific meeting! With an opening from our own Masami 🤩🤩! #AM2023

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

I am continuously amazed by the kindness of #WomenInSTEM surrounding me @NKI_nl , who make challenging and stressful times much more bearable. thank you to the supportive, caring and wonderful twitterless #Karin de Visser, @piakvistborg @tinekelenstra @lab_kok @thommen_ds .

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

8 months

What Karin says! A true privilege to be part of this fantastic team- and bring on the TME power into the cancer cell plasticity challenge.

Karin de Visser

@deVisserKarin

8 months

Such a great honor to be shortlisted for the @CancerGrand Challenges with our amazing team OPTIMAL. Understanding how cancer cell plasticity contributes to therapy resistance requires a massive global team effort. Thanks @CancerGrand for this opportunity

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2 years

Great talks and discussion on multiple aspects of the spatial TME regulation in different cancer! Super cool images and data (most unpublished!) shared by @asharmaiisc @DanielaQuail and @HeleneSalmon #MAP2022 #ESMO

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

So excited to go back to my post doc home @MSKCancerCenter for this fab conference! Come join us :) Bringing 4 of our lab peeps so they can enjoy for a few days, as I did for a few years with @Johanna_A_Joyce , the wonderfully exciting feel of Sloan+ @nature vibes- can’t wait!

Anna Dart

@annaedart

1 year

Check out the amazing line-up of speakers planned for our joint MSKCC-Nature conference on the 29th Oct and register now! I'll be there! 😀

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

LAMP3 DC are definitely the exciting kid on the block in anti-tumor immunity! Elegant, excellent, exciting talk by @PittetLab , almost makes me want to ‘cheat’ on #Macrophages :)

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

7 months

Thank you for coming our way @ElizSMcKenna ! A real pleasure to have you over, and enjoy your insights and super nice gift for my own little one (a future scientist obviously 🤩)

Elizabeth McKenna

@ElizSMcKenna

7 months

What a great day at @NKI_nl ! Looking forward to coming back tomorrow - thank you so much @LeilaAkkari1 for hosting me!

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@LeilaAkkari1

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Happy new year everyone! As 2024 starts, remember to register to join us for one of the best meeting of this new year! Rimini will be the place to be 🤩🤩

Anna Obenauf

@obenaufa

5 months

🌟We are delighted to invite you to our EMBO Workshop on "The many faces of cancer evolution" in a breathtaking location! Enjoy interdisciplinary discussions, get new perspectives, and make new friends over an aperitivo! #EMBOcancerEvo 📅 Don't miss out:

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! For the occasion, @NKI_nl Diversity and Inclusion Committee highlights women that inspired us, and how our kids see their strong #WomenInSTEM . Couldn't be prouder to be a mentee of some of these strong women, and to mentor the next generation.

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

I sometimes envy the utter self confidence and feeling of entitlement white male scientists display (and yes I know, not all). And then I remember I shouldn’t. #WomenInSTEM #newPI

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

Post doc @LuukvanHooren presenting a flash talk on our glioma immunotherapy project #AM2020 ! 2 mins isn’t long but he did great 😉! #ProudPI @NKI_nl @oncodeinstitute

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

We’ve had lab Xmas parties since the 1st year, with Secret Santa 🎁 /fun activities- a Dutch tradition is to write a poem to your secret 🎅 and peeps get sooo creative! Past couple years, we had to adapt our gatherings but the poems got even better 🥰. #lovemylab #proudPI

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

What a pleasure to be on site moderating the #TME session of the @oncodeinstitute annual meeting! The whole team did a fantastic job :) Super excited to see @djkloosterman present his story so beautifully. Well done Daan, you make me a very very #proudPI !!

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

🍾🎉 to my dearest friend, former benchmate, multiple x co-author, best 🍹 maker and the most outstanding junior PI I know for this amazing achievement, not even 4 years into her lab! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @mcdowell_sheri , loved hearing you tell us all about it and can’t wait for what’s to come!

Daniela Quail Lab

@DanielaQuail

3 years

Thrilled to share our 1st research pub out today in @NatureCancer 🥳 This work was led by rockstar PhD student @mcdowell_sheri & many fantastic collaborators, including Andrew Dannenberg, @DoctorJSpicer , and @loganawalsh (co-senior). A tweetorial! 1/9

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

10 months

To all post docs and junior PIs out there- head to beautiful Heidelberg for this awesome symposia! It’s free, has amazing speakers like my dear friend @obenaufa and is co-organized by the talented #JoErbani in my group- great science and network opportunities 🤩

PostdoCaRe Europe

@PostdoCaReEu

10 months

🔜🚨 Less than 2 weeks for abstract submission 💻 Come share with fellow postdocs in cancer research this amazing conference with lots of networking opportunities and terrific keynotes 🤩 Senior #PhDs and #newPI are also welcome! Sounds great, right? Join us and spread the word😉

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@LeilaAkkari1

5 years

Just when you start to feel a little less stressed about being a #NewPI , your mid-term evaluation is scheduled...😱😱 #timeflies #stressedPI #wheredoesthetimego

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

That’s my bestie 😍😍. Congrats to the amazing DQ, a wonderful scientist, human being, 4am partner of chips eating! #WomeninScience #proudfriend

Rosalind & Morris Goodman Cancer Institute

@McGillGCI

1 year

Congratulations 🎉 #kudos to @McGillGCI Professor @DanielaQuail recipient of the @CdnImmunol 2023 New Investigator award @mcgillu @McGillMed Learn more:

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

Massive congrats to my post doc supervisor and everlasting mentor, advisor and supporter @Johanna_A_Joyce 🤩🎉🎉👏🏻👏🏻! A well deserved recognition for your dedication to science and to your lab, always working relentlessly to improve cancer treatment #proudmentee ! Bravo Johanna!

Johanna Joyce

@Johanna_A_Joyce

1 year

Incredibly honoured and grateful to receive the EACR-Pezcoller Award 🙏🏼 I've been privileged to be a researcher in 🇮🇪 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇭 - this is what European science means to me - open, collaborative & without borders! A thousand thanks to my wonderful lab, colleagues, and family 😊🙏🏼

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@LeilaAkkari1

5 months

Join us at the 2nd edition of ‘The many faces of cancer evolution’ in Rimini next May! The speaker list is fabulous, the location dreamy, the organizers fun and the food will be Italian (no need for adjectives here), we look forward to have you there!

Anna Obenauf

@obenaufa

5 months

🌟We are delighted to invite you to our EMBO Workshop on "The many faces of cancer evolution" in a breathtaking location! Enjoy interdisciplinary discussions, get new perspectives, and make new friends over an aperitivo! #EMBOcancerEvo 📅 Don't miss out:

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

Inspired by @AshaniTW , I received the best valentine’s gift ever from the best partner ever @darionard 🥰. Coffee stays hot with @EmberMug and ready to tackle 2 papers and a review submission in the next 2 weeks 💪🏻!

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

Incredibly proud to be a small part of this great study on spatial analyses of brain tumors! What is even better is to work with amazing scientists and BFF @loganawalsh and @DanielaQuail , who are publishing not one but 2(!!!) @nature papers!! Amazing!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Logan Walsh

@loganawalsh

1 year

What could be better than publishing a paper in @Nature ? Publishing 2! 🥳 🥂 🙌 Couldn’t be prouder of our team today 🥹 My first tweetorial:

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 month

After 🤩 talks from @shouval , @SantiagoZelenay and @ZanivanLab this am, @ClareIsacke from @ICR_London closes our @EACRnews #TumourEcosystem meeting with a fascinating keynote, asking and answering provocative & essential questions- an honor to hear her insights into ER+ BCs 🙌

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 month

On behalf of the organizing committee @obenaufa @CirielloLab @MagnaniLab_ICR and myself, I am super pumped to introduce the #EMBOCancerEvo speaker highlight #9 of this week, the one and only @AlejoFraticelli from @IRBBarcelona .

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

7 years

@jonfavs @anamariecox @TVietor08 @jonlovett . Awesome pod, one of the best since I listen to you-thank you for giving us hope and laughters!

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

That was a super amazing symposium- bravo bravo 🎊 to the organizing team, super high quality talks of mostly unpublished data, great round tables and discussions. Inspiring really- makes me truly grateful to be part of the #TME community!

Jennifer Guerriero, PhD

@JennGuerriero

2 years

Join us tomorrow! March 10th 9am-3pm for the 1st Annual Myeloid Network Symposium! Many thanks to co-organizers @JudithVarner2 @Johanna_A_Joyce @coussens_lisa @GabrilovichLab for assembling an incredible event & @UCSanDiego for hosting. Agenda & zoom link:

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

My dear colleague & friend @liamfaller at the @NKI_nl retreat giving us insights into addressing #DiversityandInclusion in research (a committee he started)!a big focus of our retreat this year, glad to see these initiatives getting full support- #timesarechanging for the best!

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

Fantastic talk by my dearest and super talented friend @elisa_oricchio on chromatin organization and genomic instability in whole genome doubling cells- not my field but she made it so easy to follow I now fell like and expert :) well done Eli and @CirielloLab ! #proudfriend

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

5 years

Thank you my amazing friend and colleague @DanielaQuail :) I am so proud and humbled to join @oncodeinstitute , and to have the support of so many talented and inspiring people across both sides of the ocean! Very excited to start this new chapter of our group🎉 #NewPI @NKI_nl

Daniela Quail Lab

@DanielaQuail

5 years

I could not be more proud of my brilliant friend and former colleague @LeilaAkkari1 @NKI_nl for this major achievement joining @oncodeinstitute . 💥HUGE💥 congratulations! 👏👏

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 months

Back to the Montpellier roots for the 30th anniversary of my alma mater institute @IGMM_Montpel ! Honored to be here, and to share the floor with so many great alumni :) a trip down memory lane!

IGMM-Montpellier

@IGMM_Montpel

2 months

Fantastic science in the tumor environment session with @trevoragraham @LeilaAkkari1 and Karin Tarte @honeycomb_team

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

Left to right: Macrophages, neutrophils, T cells (all in cancer, obviously…)

Stein Aerts

@steinaerts

2 years

Promoter, Enhancer, Transcription Factor

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

The inaugural @NatureCancer issue has some real gems, this perspective on the next decade of cancer research and its challenges is one of them-by the 'creme de la creme' cancer experts, some of them I have the honour to work/have worked with. @LoweLabMSKCC #JoyceLab #BernardsLab

Nature Cancer

@NatureCancer

4 years

@nature @NatureNews @NatImmunol @NatRevClinOncol @NatureCellBio @NatureGenet @NatureMedicine @NatureComms @SpringerNature Here is our Viewpoint @NatureCancer , 'A roadmap for the next decade in cancer research' collecting some interesting perspectives about the future of cancer research by experts in different fields

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

So proud my talented (and twitterless) post-doc Serena Vegna is on the list of Young Invest Grantees- Serena will be developing her own line of research on senescence and #TME in liver cancer in the lab, in close collaboration with @BernardsLabora1 and @Demarialab1 . 🙏 KWF!!!

KWFKankerbestrijding

@kwf_nl

3 years

53 nieuwe onderzoeken naar kanker mogen van start! We zijn blij en dankbaar dat we ondanks corona een prachtig bedrag van 30 miljoen euro kunnen investeren in een betere toekomst voor kankerpatiënten. Lees meer: #dankbaar #kankeronderzoek #donateurs #kwf

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

Example number 2- @DirenaAC , new @IRBBarcelona PI exploring the early mechanistic bases of pancreatic cancer- brilliant!

Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

2 years

There’s nothing cooler than seeing your friends excel and put forward the best science out there: example number 1- @obenaufa and her functional insights into resistance evolution post targeted therapy and immunotherapy- Visionary! #EMBOcancerEvolution

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

#ProudMentee ! Wonderful to catch up with these brillant and so much fun peeps, I miss you guys!! @oakolson @DanielaQuail @bowman_rl @FloKlemm @LabSevenich @Johanna_A_Joyce , thank you for everything!

Johanna Joyce

@Johanna_A_Joyce

4 years

Mini reunion 🇨🇭🇳🇱🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦 w/ some of @Joycelab 'Generation 2.0' to celebrate our recent papers & submissions! One of the best things about being a PI is working with & mentoring such smart, creative & passionate scientists- congrats to all these authors! #ProudMentor #ProudPI

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

1 year

Super proud of the twitterless Nicolas Camviel who just received the great news (on his bday!) of a 2-year fellowship funding from @snsf_ch for his post doc in our lab @NKI_nl !

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

10 months

Hoping Twitter can work its magic (instead of emailing/bothering a million people)- we are looking for Abca1-/- mice to get some bones for revisions (to prepare macrophages)- Jax delivery time of the KO animals is 3 months, and that's too long! anyone can help? Please RT an DM !!

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

23 days

On behalf of the organizing committee @obenaufa @MagnaniLab_ICR @CirielloLab and myself, here is #EMBOCancerEvo speaker Highlight #11 , the one and only Renato Ostuni @OstuniLab who is unravelling the complex networks underlying innate immune cell heterogeneity in cancer.

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 months

Many many many congratulations Johanna! So very well deserved for a truly inspiring scientist and human being 🤩. I’m so proud to call you mentor! Bravo 🎊🎈🍾🎉!!

Johanna Joyce

@Johanna_A_Joyce

4 months

I am incredibly humbled and honored for election to the @AACR #Fellows 2024! Huge gratitude to all who have helped make this possible, including my wonderful lab, all of my incredible colleagues, collaborators & mentors! And my sincere thanks to all the fellows and the AACR 🙏

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

5 years

Perks of being juniorPI: presenting/discussing lots of unpublished work with peers as insightful as @valientelab , @msmelanoma and others. I had a wonderful time today @CNIO_Cancer in #Madrid , thanks a million for the warm welcome Manuel, Massimo, Marisol- next time @NKI_nl !

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

4 years

Today, @NKI_nl Inclusion and Diversity committee chaired by @liamfaller organised a socially distanced viewing of the movie #PictureAScientist to raise awareness on gender and race inequality. It was inspiring to see many PhD students & PD getting involved in the discussion.

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

5 years

Akkari lab Christmas outing, we tasted (many) wines and had a super fun time! So grateful for this wonderful group of dedicated people. They make it all worth it! @NKI_nl #newPI

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Leila Akkari

@LeilaAkkari1

3 years

All pride, never prejudice. #LGBTQ #pride #TransRightsAreHumanRights #diversityandinclusion .

The Netherlands Cancer Institute

@NKI_nl

3 years

It's PRIDE week!🏳️‍🌈 There were several activities @NKI_nl to promote more visibility of the LGBTQ+ community. Thank you to all LGBTQAP+ colleagues and allies who are working in front and behind the scenes for an inclusive work environment! #pride #inclusion #STEM

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