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Sophie B. has received a postdoctoral research fellowship

Sophie Bekisz, who recently graduated from her PhD, has been awarded a Postdoctoral Research Grant by the F.R.S.-FNRS (Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique), with a duration of three years: from 1/10/2025 to 30/09/2028. This grant will support her work on the modeling of lymphangiogenesis in osteoarthritis. This project will be conducted at the University of Liège under the supervision[...]
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Sophie defended her PhD thesis

Sophie Bekisz defended her PhD thesis in Liège on 25 April 2025. Her thesis is entitled “Integrated in vitro and in silico lymphangiogenesis : Development and use of emerging tools to generate mechanistic insights into lymphangiogenic sprouting”. Congratulations, Sophie! Or better said: congratulations, Dr. Bekisz!
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Sophie has received a travel award from the Fondation Arthrose

Sophie Bekisz has received a travel award from the Fondation Arthrose/Osteoarthritis Foundation, which will allow her to attend an international scientific conference on osteoarthritis. She will present her work on the influence of the lymphatic system on joint pathologies – a connection with great potential in the fight against osteoarthritis. (Photo will follow soon)
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Sophie presented at the Lymphatics GRS and GRC

Sophie Bekisz attended both the Lymphatics Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Conference (GRC), which took place at Ventura (California, US) from 2nd to 8th of March 2024. She presented her poster at both events, which was entitled “Investigation of lymphatic endothelial cell sprouting behavior in pathological conditions through a combined in vitro – in silico[...]
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Sophie presented her work at the EVBO Summer School

Sophie Bekisz presented her work at the European Vascular Biology Organization (EVBO) Summer School, which took place in Barcelona (Spain) from 5 to 7 July 2023. This summer school was about single cells, spatial transcriptomics and model systems for vascular biology (organoids, zebrafish and mice). Her poster was about the investigation of lymphangiogenic sprouting through in vitro and[...]
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Loïc and Sophie attended the 2nd MicroPhysiological Systems World Summit

Loïc Comeliau and Sophie Bekisz had the opportunity to attend the 2nd MicroPhysiological Systems (MPS) World Summit, which took place from 26 to 30 June 2023 in Berlin (Germany). In their words, “This meeting was incredible, with more than 1300 participants, 150 talks, an amazing organization and a lot of rewarding discussions about microphysiological systems”. They gained a[...]
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Loïc and Sophie presented at the 15th International Conference SBHD

Loïc Comeliau and Sophie Bekisz presented their work at the 15th International Conference Systems Biology of Human Diseases (SBHD), which took place from 19 to 21 June 2023 in Berlin (Germany). Their poster was about the combination of mechanistic and inferred network construction approaches to investigate lymphatic endothelial cell behavior in pathological conditions.
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Sophie has received an operating grant from the Foundation Leon Fredericq

Sophie Bekisz has received an operating grant from the Foundation Leon Fredericq. The aim of the Foundation Leon Fredericq, a university hospital foundation in Liège, is to support and strengthen medical and biomedical research in Liège in all fields of medicine, but also to support innovative projects carried out by the University Hospital of Liège for the[...]
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Sophie received the best poster prize at the Lymphatic GRS

Sophie Bekisz received the best poster prize at the Lymphatic Gordon Research Seminar 2022. Congratulations, Sophie! Sophie attended both the Lymphatic Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Conference (GRC), which took place at Lucca, Italy from 29th to 30th October (GRS) and from 30th October to 4th November, respectively. She presented her poster in both events, which[...]
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