On December 6th Anke van den Berg was invited by the Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap (KNG) to lecture on this years Nobel prize winners in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for “the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”. Her lecture can be viewed here (in Dutch).

At the International Symposium on Hodgkin Lymphoma (ISHL13) in Cologne October 26-28 2024 several group members presented their latest results, chaired sessions, and presented prizes. Sophie Teesink was awarded a poster prize for her poster on the use of TARC as a biomarker for early detection or exclusion of relapse in classic Hodgkin lymphoma.

Welcome – ISHL13 – International Symposium on Hodgkin Lymphoma (hodgkinsymposium.org)

On the 26^th of June a first version of the RNA matchmaking game has gone live on a German Gaming Portal. It can be played both on PC and on you mobile phone (landscape). This is a citizen science game which means that while you are gaming you are also benefiting science. In this game you can help our studies by finding the best targets for a specific small RNA molecule called microRNA-150. We found that this small RNA molecule plays an important role in B-cell lymphoma but we don’t now how exactly. We hope the gaming community can help by playing this game and find how and where this RNA molecule binds to other RNAs and so help explain how this RNA molecule functions. This game is the joint work of the game developing team at https://gamesforhealth.net/ and members of LRG Anke van den Berg and Joost Kluiver.

Currently this game can be played via this link (German): https://www.jetztspielen.de/spiel/unmask-lymphoma-part-1-rna-matching