Guillaume Jacquemet and Cecilia Sahlgren receive funding for the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in Immune-Endothelial Interactions (IMMENs)
Associate Professor Guillaume Jacquemet, our Group Leader, and Professor Cecilia Sahlgren, our affiliated Group Leader, from Åbo Akademi University and the InFLAMES Research Flagship have been awarded funding for the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in Immune-Endothelial Interactions (IMMENs), conducted in collaboration with the University of Helsinki.
The project explores how immune cells (leukocytes) interact with specialized cells in the lymphatic system, known as lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs), to regulate localized immune responses. The researchers aim to understand how these interactions function in both healthy and diseased states, and how tumors manipulate them to evade immune detection.
– The insights generated by this project could pave the way for new strategies to harness the immune system and enable more effective therapies, says Guillaume Jacquemet.
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