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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR / PhD

Tom Vanden Berghe

Professor Tom Vanden Berghe earned his Master's and PhD in Science (Biotechnology) in 1999 and 2005, respectively. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral research at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research. In 2018, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp and as a Guest Professor at Ghent University. In 2023, he was promoted to an Associate Professor.

Professor Vanden Berghe is head of the Cell Death Signaling Lab at University of Antwerp. His mission is to conduct applied research focusing on cell death, particularly ferroptosis, pyroptosis (inflammation), and associated diseases. The Vanden Berghe Lab investigates mechanisms, diagnostics, and intervention strategies related to critical illnesses, brain injuries, kidney and vascular diseases. In addition, the team explores the potential of ferroptosis as a novel anti-cancer therapy for eliminating therapy-resistant cancers. Professor Vanden Berghe has established a comprehensive ferroptosis platform encompassing novel lead ferroptosis inhibitors and genes, ferroptosis diagnostics, and ferroptosis-based nanomedicine for anti-cancer therapeutics.

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Lab members

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Tom Vanden Berghe, PhD

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Professor @ UAntwerp
Guest Professor @ UGent

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Anja Verhulst, PhD

Team leader

Research coordinator
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Vascular calcification

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Benjamin Vervaet, PhD

Team leader

Postdoctoral fellow
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Kidney disease

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Behrouz Hassannia, PhD

Teamleader

Ferroptosis
Anti-cancer therapeutics

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Britt Opdebeeck, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Mechanisms of vascular calcification

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Emily Van San, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Ferroptosis
Multiple sclerosis

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Roberto Fernandez Acosta, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Ferroptosis
Epigenetics

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Sylvina da Silva Fernandes

PhD Student

Ferroptosis
Chronic interstitial nephritis

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Cedric Peleman

Phd student

Ferroptosis
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

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Ine Koeken

PhD student

Ferroptosis
Anti-cancer therapeutics

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Astrid Van den Branden

PhD student

Ferroptosis
Chronic kidney disease

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Geraldine Veeckmans

PhD student

Ferroptosis
Ischemia/reperfusion injury

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Magali Walravens

PhD student

Ferroptosis
Mechanism lipid peroxidation

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Saar Adriaensen

PhD Student

Endothelial cells
Vascular calcification

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Elien Van Campen

PhD student

Nephrectomy
Regeneration

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Cyril Willemart

PhD student

Precision medicine 2.0 diagnostics
Nanopore episequencing cfDNA
Critical illness

2007 Hilde Geryl MR

Hilde Geryl

Technician

Experimental surgery
Bone histomorphometry
Biochemical analysis

2007 Ludwig Lamberts MR

Ludwig Lamberts

Technician

Biomedical Laboratory
Spectrometric Analyses

2013 Geert Dams

Geert Dams

Technician

Experimental surgery
Animal follow-up
Bone histomorphometry

Former lab members
2007 Rita Marynissen MR

Rita Marinyssen

Technician

Administration
Biochemical analysis

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Lies Moonen

PhD student

Nephrectomy induced repair

2017 Gerd 5416 MR

Gerd Schreurs

PhD student

Toxin induced nephropathy

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Geoffrey Van Den Bergh

PhD student

Arterial stiffness in vascular calcification

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Raphaëlle Corremans

PhD student

Metformin
Chronic kidney disease

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Claudina Perez Novo, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Ferroptosis
Anti-cancer therapeutics

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Bartosz Wiernicki

PhD student

Ferroptosis
Immunogenicity

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Samya Van Coillie

PhD student

Ferroptosis
Multi organ failure

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Sze Men Choi

Technician

Experimental surgery
Mouse manager
Standard lab analysis

2005 Geert Behets MR

Geert Behets, PhD

Teamleader

Postdoctoral fellow
Bone histomorphometry

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Dirk De Weerdt

Graphical support

principal investigator / PhD

Publications

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2024
Improving cardiac differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells by targeting ferroptosis
J Aalders, L Léger, B Hassannia, V Goossens, TV Berghe, J van Hengel
Regenerative therapy 27, 21-31, 2024
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2024
Intrinsic temperature increase drives lipid metabolism towards ferroptosis evasion and chemotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer
V de Laat, H Topal, X Spotbeen, A Talebi, J Dehairs, J Idkowiak, ...
Nature communications 15 (1), 8540, 2024
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2024
Ferroptosis is a targetable detrimental factor in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
C Peleman, S Hellemans, G Veeckmans, W Arras, H Zheng, I Koeken, ...
Cell Death & Differentiation 31 (9), 1113-1126, 2024
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2024
A guide to ferroptosis, the biological rust of cellular membranes
G Veeckmans, E Van San, T Vanden Berghe
The FEBS journal 291 (13), 2767-2783, 2024
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2024
Ferroptosis in Health and Disease
C Berndt, H Alborzinia, VS Amen, S Ayton, U Barayeu, A Bartelt, H Bayir, ...
Redox Biology, 103211, 2024
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2024
RIPK1 protects naive and regulatory T cells from TNFR1-induced apoptosis
J Huysentruyt, W Steels, M Ruiz Perez, B Verstraeten, M Vadi, T Divert, ...
Cell Death & Differentiation, 1-13, 2024
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2024
Therapeutic exploitation of ferroptosis
M Walravens, I Koeken, T Vanden Berghe
Biochemical Society Transactions 52 (2), 693-706, 2024
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2024
Emerging role of ferroptosis in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: revisiting hepatic lipid peroxidation
C Peleman, S Francque, TV Berghe
EBioMedicine 102, 2024
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2024
Loss of PPARα function promotes epigenetic dysregulation of lipid homeostasis driving ferroptosis and pyroptosis lipotoxicity in metabolic dysfunction associated Steatotic …
C Theys, T Vanderhaeghen, E Van Dijck, C Peleman, A Scheepers, ...
Frontiers in Molecular Medicine 3, 1283170, 2024
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2023
Beyond ferrostatin-1: a comprehensive review of ferroptosis inhibitors
C Scarpellini, G Klejborowska, C Lanthier, B Hassannia, TV Berghe, ...
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 2023
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2023
Effect of erythrophagocytosis-induced ferroptosis during angiogenesis in atherosclerotic plaques
P Puylaert, L Roth, M Van Praet, I Pintelon, C Dumitrascu, A van Nuijs, ...
Angiogenesis 26 (4), 505-522, 2023
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Ferroptosis and pyroptosis signatures in critical COVID-19 patients
C Peleman, S Van Coillie, S Ligthart, SM Choi, J De Waele, P Depuydt, ...
Cell Death & Differentiation 30 (9), 2066-2077, 2023
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Ferroptosis contributes to multiple sclerosis and its pharmacological targeting suppresses experimental disease progression
E Van San, AC Debruyne, G Veeckmans, YY Tyurina, VA Tyurin, H Zheng, ...
Cell Death & Differentiation 30 (9), 2092-2103, 2023
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Zonated quantification of immunohistochemistry in normal and steatotic livers
C Peleman, WH De Vos, I Pintelon, A Driessen, A Van Eyck, ...
Virchows Archiv 482 (6), 1035-1045, 2023
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Apoptotic cell death in disease—Current understanding of the NCCD 2023
I Vitale, F Pietrocola, E Guilbaud, SA Aaronson, JM Abrams, D Adam, ...
Cell Death & Differentiation 30 (5), 1097-1154, 2023
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Molecular mechanisms of nemorosone-induced ferroptosis in cancer cells
R Fernández-Acosta, B Hassannia, J Caroen, B Wiernicki, ...
Cells 12 (5), 735, 2023
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Caspase inhibition modulates monocyte-derived macrophage polarization in damaged tissues
S Solier, M Mondini, L Meziani, A Jacquel, C Lacout, TV Berghe, Y Julé, ...
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24 (4), 4151, 2023
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2022
Zonated quantification of immunohistochemistry in steatotic livers
C Peleman, W De Vos, I Pintelon, A Driessen, C Van Steenkiste, ...
Journal of Hepatology 77, S709, 2022
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2022
Cancer cells dying from ferroptosis impede dendritic cell-mediated anti-tumor immunity
B Wiernicki, S Maschalidi, J Pinney, S Adjemian, T Vanden Berghe, ...
Nature communications 13 (1), 3676, 2022
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2022
Novel iron oxide nanoparticles induce ferroptosis in a panel of cancer cell lines
R Fernández-Acosta, C Iriarte-Mesa, D Alvarez-Alminaque, B Hassannia, ...
Molecules 27 (13), 3970, 2022
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total citations
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i10-index
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Patents

Number Name Date
US9862678, WO2016075330, EP3218357 3,4-diaminobenzenesulfonamide derivatives for inhibiting cell death 2014-11-14
WO2019154795, EP3749645, CN112105601, US20210094909, 201980012162.8 3-(benzylamino)-4-(cyclohexylamino)-n-(2-(piperazin-1-yl)ethyl)benzenesulfonamide derivatives and related ferrostatin-1 analogues as cell death inhibitors for treating e.g. stroke 2018-02-07
WO2015110346, US9919048 Targeting of interleukin-1 and -18 signaling in treatment of septic shock 2014-01-21
EP22196811 Phenothiazine-based new ferroptosis inhibitors 2022-09-21
EP24187618.4 Novel ferroptosis inhibitors - 2024 016 Ferropcam 2024-07-10
EP24187620.0 Novel ferroptosis inhibitors - 2024 017 Alferopcom 2024-07-10
EP24187621.8 Novel ferroptosis inhibitors - 2024 018 Oxaferropcom 2024-07-10