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Laboratory of Cellular Metabolism and Metabolic Regulation
We are tackling cancer and in particular metastasis formation as a metabolic disease.
Sarah-Maria Fendt
Sarah-Maria Fendt is a Principal Investigator at the VIB Center for Cancer Biology and Professor of Oncology at KU Leuven, Belgium. Sarah’s lab is specifically interested in understanding the role of metabolism in driving metastasis formation and in defining the principles of metabolic regulation that enable cancer cell plasticity and heterogeneity. Her team applies the powerful technologies of single cell and spatial multi-omics analysis in pre-clinical mouse models and patient samples to study the interplay between cancer cells and their metabolic environment during metastasis formation. The research of Sarah’s lab is funded by multiple (inter)national grants and industry. In 2020 Sarah has been awarded with the EMBO Gold Medal and she is elected EMBO members since 2022. In 2023 Sarah received the Francqui-Collen prize and the 51st Léopold Griffuel award.