Work of Steffen Nijhof, a master’s student Biopharmaceutical Sciences, has been selected for the “Breaking News Session” of the International Student Congress of (Bio)Medical Sciences (ISCOMs), to be held June 5-8, 2012 in Groningen.

Steffen will present the results of his work in the Division of Toxicology from the LACDR, Leiden University. For his internship, he made use of recently developed technology to screen for novel candidate cancer drug targets in a 3D cell culture system (Biomaterials 2012, 33:181) and a whole animal bioimaging platform (PLOS One 2012, 7:e31281).  

Steffen will discuss the characterization of an identified new regulator of prostate cancer cell migration and metastasis.