3/3 Tenure-track position with a clear path to promotion and a substantial start-up package.
Apply by 10 June 2026.
Details here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Know someone who fits? Please share with your network!✨
2/3 Join us if you have a strong track record & are ready to build your own research programme in areas such as:
– In vivo immune engineering
– Next-generation cell and gene therapies (e.g., CAR-T, CAR-NK)
– Synthetic immunology & CRISPR/TF screening
– Delivery systems for in situ cell engineering
1/1 We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Immuno-oncology and Immune Cell Engineering to join the newly established Division of Immuno-Oncology at Lund University!
@lund-university.bsky.social
reprogramming! If you’re excited about computational biology, single cell data, and modelling immune cell identity, this is a fantastic opportunity to join us.
Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
3/4 Within the DDLS Research School, the recruited PhD student will analyze highly multiplexed REPROcode datasets with mathematical modelling to reveal transcription factors combinations that drive immune cell identity.
2/4 Reprogramming immune cells has great clinical potential but could benefit from data‑driven computational approaches.
1/4 We are recruiting! Our lab was awarded a PhD grant from @scilifelab.se Data-driven Life Science (DDLS) Research School for the project “A virtual cellular reprogramming screening platform”.
#DataDrivenLifeScience #CellReprogramming
3/3 This work will define the structural and temporal barriers that are limiting PIB reprogramming efficiency to enable efficacy across tumors and successful clinical translation. Bravo Sandhya!
For more info see: pereiralab.com/lab-news/san...
2/3 Despite the therapeutic promise of tumor-to-dendritic cell reprogramming by PU.1, IRF8 and BATF3 (PIB) overexpression, reprogramming efficiency is variable across tumors. Sandhya will address this by decoding the nucleosomal structure and temporal dynamics of PIB activity.
1/3 Huge congrats to our team member Sandhya Malla @sa2430ma.bsky.social, who was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by #Cancerfonden with her project “Decoding The Regulatory Grammar of Transcription Factor-Mediated Immune Reprogramming”!
2/2 The DGfI-Spring School on Immunology is a German training course covering state-of-the-art immunology, from mechanistic to translational research. This year it brought together 63 participants from 9 countries. Our dendritic cells couldn’t stay out the picture! Congrats, Abby!
1/2 Our PhD student Abigail Altman was one of three winners for Best Poster at the 2026 DGfI-Spring School on Immunology (@dgfi-org.bsky.social) held in the village of Ettal. She presented an outstanding poster: Programming Dendritic Cell Diversity with Direct Cell Reprogramming for Immunotherapy.
Another standout moment was the keynote by Adrian Hayday on γδ T cells, truly insightful. He also highlighted Coimbra’s scientific heritage, including the Laboratório Chimico (1772) & its role in shifting from theoretical to experimental science, an early European commitment to lab research. /FP
A fantastic meeting at the historic Convento de São Francisco, with inspiring discussions throughout. A highlight was hosting Sebastian Kobold, whose work on CAR-T cells truly embodies the theme “Immunity by Design.”
It was a great pleasure to speak two weeks ago at the Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology in Coimbra!
#SPI #Immunology #CancerImmunotherapy
2/2 In order (top to bottom):
Gaia Fontanari (ATMP Research School Fellow)
Daniel Oliveira (FCT Fellow)
Hugo Couto Moreira (LaCaixa Fellow)
Margarida Bras (FCT Fellow)
Linmeng Zhang (Visiting PhD)
1/2 New PhD students, new ideas, new science! Excited to see what we’ll build and discover together. Welcome to the lab!✨
Find out more: pereiralab.com
Looking forward to my talk today, where I will present an update on the conversion of cancer cells into dendritic cells to reinstate anti-tumor immunity, and discuss how cDC1 reprogramming can be used as a model to study tertiary lymphoid structure formation.
Currently on the slopes of Keystone, Colorado attending the for the Symposium Myeloid Cells: Functional Heterogeneity with Therapeutic Promise. It has been a fantastic meeting so far; inspiring science, great discussions on the slopes, and exciting new perspectives on myeloid cells.
Excited to welcome our new postdocs to the lab! Looking forward to exciting science, collaborations, and discoveries together. Welcome aboard!✨
Read more about them on our website: pereiralab.com
Huge congrats to Ervin and thanks to Lund University and the LUCC for awarding the potential of dendritic cell reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy.
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We are happy to announce that Ervin Ascic was awarded the Best Cancer Thesis of 2025 at Lund University!
Read full paper here : sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
#CellSystems #CellIdentity #ImmuneReprogramming #CoverArt
The artwork depicts a field of blooming tulips symbolizing immune cell diversity rooted in transcription factor combinations that define immune cell fates. Our combinatorial TF screening platform maps landscape to enable immune cell reprogramming. Illustration: Lilith Lawrence
We’re excited to share that our recent paper, “A combinatorial transcription factor screening platform for immune cell reprogramming”, has been selected for the cover of the January issue of Cell Systems!✨
New from @cellreprolab.bsky.social! The REPROcode library is a collection of over 400 immune-related human transcription factors in barcoded lenti vectors. Explore the set and find your favorite or mix-and-match: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...
🙏🏻 A big thank you to all the funding agencies for making this possible: @ERC_Research, @HorizonEU, @Cancerfonden, @Vetenskapsradet, @novonordiskfond, @fct_pt, #NextgenerationEU, @CancerResearch, WCMM Lund, @Lunduniversity, @Lund_Stem, LUCC, @CNC_UC and Region Skåne.
14) 👥 We are grateful to our collaborators @AsgardThx, @FRosa93, @_CristianaPires, Branko Cirovic, @fabian_theis, @mariia_minaeva, @Dominik1Klein, Ewa Sitnicka, Markus Ringnér and Marcel Martin. We thank everyone for their fantastic contributions!