EMBO Member
Karin E. de Visser
EMBO 2021 | InstgC 22–25
Former EMBO Young Investigator (2016)
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Impact of the immune system on breast cancer
The overall goal of my research group is to understand by which mechanisms the immune system influences breast cancer metastasis and response to conventional anti-cancer therapies. Through mechanistic understanding of the crosstalk between the immune system and cancer cells we aim to contribute to the design of novel immunomodulatory strategies to fight metastatic breast cancer and to increase the efficacy of anti-cancer therapy responses.
Keywords
Inflammation / breast cancer / immunotherapy / metastasis / mouse models of cancer