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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR / PhD

Tom Vanden Berghe

Prof. Tom Vanden Berghe obtained a Master and a PhD in Science (Biotechnology) in 1999 and 2005, respectively. He was a postdoc at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research and became Assistant professor at UAntwerp and Guest professor at Gent University in 2018.

Prof. Tom Vanden Berghe is running two labs: Pathophysiology lab @UAntwerp and Ferroptosis and Inflammation Research lab @VIB-UGent. His mission is to perform applied research in the context of cell death/ferroptosis, inflammation and disease. The Vanden Berghe lab studies the mechanisms, diagnostics and intervention strategies in critical illness, brain injuries, chronic kidney disease, vascular calcification and bone metabolism. Along the in vivo validation of patented lead ferroptosis inhibitors, the Vanden Berghe lab also explores ferroptosis as novel anti-cancer therapy to eradicate therapy-resistant cancers. He has setup a multi-faceted ferroptosis platform covering novel lead ferroptosis inhibitors & genes, ferroptosis diagnostics, as well as ferroptosis nanomedicine anti-cancer therapeutics.

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Lab members

University of Antwerp
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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

2011 Benjamin Vervaet MR

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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Lies Moonen

PhD student

Nephrectomy induced repair

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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 Rita Marynissen MR

Rita Marinyssen

Technician

Administration
Biochemical analysis

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
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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2023
A Guide to Ferroptosis, the biological rust of cellular membranes
G Veeckmans, E Van San, T Vanden Berghe
The FEBS Journal, 2023
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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
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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2023
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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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, 1-18, 2023
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2023
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, 1-58, 2023
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2023
RIPK1 kinase-dependent inflammation and cell death contribute to the pathogenesis of COPD
HP Van Eeckhoutte, C Donovan, RY Kim, TM Conlon, M Ansari, H Khan, ...
European Respiratory Journal 61 (4), 2023
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2023
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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2023
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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2023
Zonated quantification of immunohistochemistry in normal and steatotic livers
C Peleman, WH De Vos, I Pintelon, A Driessen, A Van Eyck, ...
Virchows Archiv, 1-11, 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
Correction to: Luminescent Human iPSC-Derived Neurospheroids Enable Modeling of Neurotoxicity After Oxygen–glucose Deprivation
E Van Breedam, A Nijak, T Buyle-Huybrecht, J Di Stefano, M Boeren, ...
Neurotherapeutics 19 (4), 1433, 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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2022
Inhibiting RIPK1 kinase activity is protective in experimental models of COPD
HP Van Eeckhoutte, C Donovan, R Kim, H Khan, R Jayaraman, ...
ERJ Open Research 8 (suppl 8), 2022
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2022
Luminescent human iPSC-derived neurospheroids enable modeling of neurotoxicity after oxygen–glucose deprivation
E Van Breedam, A Nijak, T Buyle-Huybrecht, J Di Stefano, M Boeren, ...
Neurotherapeutics 19 (2), 550-569, 2022
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Targeting ferroptosis protects against experimental (multi) organ dysfunction and death
S Van Coillie, E Van San, I Goetschalckx, B Wiernicki, B Mukhopadhyay, ...
Nature communications 13 (1), 1046, 2022
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2022
Executioner caspases 3 and 7 are dispensable for intestinal epithelium turnover and homeostasis at steady state
F Ghazavi, J Huysentruyt, J De Coninck, S Kourula, S Martens, ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (6), e2024508119, 2022
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2021
Necroptosis signaling promotes inflammation, airway remodeling, and emphysema in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Z Lu, HP Van Eeckhoutte, G Liu, PM Nair, B Jones, CM Gillis, ...
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 204 (6), 667-681, 2021
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2021
Ferroptosis: biological rust of lipid membranes
B Hassannia, S Van Coillie, T Vanden Berghe
Antioxidants & Redox Signaling 35 (6), 487-509, 2021
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total citations
32508
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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 New Ferroptosis Inhibitors 2022-09-21