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Award hat-trick!

The Finsen Laboratory received all three poster awards at the Danish Cancer Society Symposium: “Cancer Invasion: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Options”.

From left to right Ida K. Lund, Henrik Gårdsvoll and Tine Thurison.

This year’s Symposium hosted by Danish Cancer Society was held from the 21. – 23. June in Copenhagen, and the Symposium Poster Award Committee consisted of Arthur Frankel, USA and Janine Erler, UK.

The 1.st place went to Ida K. Lund for the poster: “Antibody-mediated targeting of the uPA proteolytic activity neutralizes uPA functions in vivo.”
2. end place went to Henrik Gårdsvoll for the poster: “Structure-based engineering of species selectivity in the interaction between urokinase and its receptor: Implication for preclinical cancer therapy. “ and Tine T. Sørensen took the 3.th place with the poster: “A new assay for the measurement of the liberated domain I of the urokinase receptor in plasma improves the prediction of survival in colorectal cancer.”

Ung forsker modtager pris

Da Dansk Selskab for Cancerforskning afholdt sit årsmøde fredag d. 7. maj 2010 på Vilvorde Kursuscenter, var der spænding i luften. Der var hele to priser på spil for de unge forskertalenter - prisen for bedste videnskabelige foredrag og prisen for bedste grafiske fremstilling af forskningsprojekt.

Daniel H. Madsen er ph.d.-student ved Finsenlaboratoriet og fremlagde sit forskningsprojekt på Årsmødet under titlen "Endocytic matrix degradation in health and disease". For sit foredrag modtog han Prisen for Bedste Foredrag og med prisen følger 10.000,- kr, som fx. kan bruges til konferencerejser og lignende.