Nicolai Birkbak (@nbirkbak) profile picture

Associate professor, department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark

aahus, denmark
Joined August 2013
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Interested in cancer evolution, immunology and data science? Located in Aarhus, Denmark, we are looking for a bioinformatic post doc to join the lab on an exciting new project! au.career.emply.com/ad/postd…
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Just out in the latest issue of Nature and Nature Medicine, @CharlesSwanton and the TRACERx team published a collection of papers detailing lung cancer biology through relapse. Fantastic work, congratulations team TRACERx!
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Cachexia is a devastating condition in patients with cancer. Our study on cancer cachexia in #TRACERx is out today in @NatureMedicine led by @Othman_Al_Sawaf, @MariamJHanjani, @SwantonLab: nature.com/articles/s41591-0… Key results in a brief 🧵
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Nicolai Birkbak retweeted
News and Views by Matthew Meyerson: “Molecular portraits of lung cancer evolution” nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Excited to share our TRACERx nature publication on circulating tumor DNA (#ctDNA, #MRD) detection in resectable lung cancer led by @AbboshChris, @Afrankell, @juditkisistok, Thomas Harrison, Aaron Garnett, @nbirkbak and @NickyMcGranahan 👇👇👇 Tweetorial🧵 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Today our important study on air pollutants in the promotion of lung cancer has been published in @Nature led by @WillHilliam @LimEmilia @DrClareWeeden @SwantonLab ...Thread below🧵nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Congrats @NickyMcGranahan !! Well deserved! :)
EMBO welcomes thirty Young Investigators - many congratulations ⁦@NickyMcGranahan⁩ what an incredible achievement for an amazing scientist thankyou ⁦@wellcometrust⁩ @CRUKresearch⁩ ⁦@CRUKLungCentre⁩ ⁦@uclcancer⁩ ⁦@TheCrick⁩ embo.org/news/press-releases…
Very cool paper on metastatic cancer cell lines
This week on the Nature cover: Mapping Metastasis. Petal plots capture cancer’s metastatic potential. Browse the issue here: go.nature.com/3n1VWyL
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Nicolai Birkbak retweeted
This is what happens when you ask the group of clinical bioinformatics at @moma_dk to look like a boyband. We need more bioinformatic stars so join us @AUHdk. Please see link and share. bit.ly/33tKgOj #HPC #AI #aarhusuni #aarhusuniversitetshospital
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Nicolai Birkbak retweeted
A post-doc position available in a great lab. Please share!
I am searching of a strong candidate for a two-year post-doc position in colorectal cancer genomics and translational research. Application deadline: 7th of July 2020 @ClausLindbjerg @moma_dk @AarhusUni @AUHdk @CtdnaDK health.au.dk/om-health/ledig…
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The #TRACERx project continues to deliver ground-breaking insights into cancer biology. Now it's easy to get an overview with the new Nature collection, showcasing papers published across the Nature publishing group.
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Nicolai Birkbak retweeted
The latest #TRACERx paper from the Swanton lab is out in this month’s issue of Nature Medicine: go.nature.com/35p4zLk. Here is a quick tweetorial on the main findings :-)
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A 2ND NEW LCCE PAPER: Biswas et al. in @NatureMedicine also out today!! A clonal expression biomarker associates with lung cancer mortality nature.com/articles/s41591-0… #TRACERx
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Also congratulations today to Kroopa Joshi, Marc Robert de Massy (@QuezadaLab) and Mazlina Ismail (@BennyChain’s lab) for "Spatial heterogeneity of the T cell receptor repertoire reflects the mutational landscape in lung cancer” in @NatureMedicine (nature.com/articles/s41591-0…)
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Nicolai Birkbak retweeted
Please support @SwantonLab’s wonderful PhD Student @ColliverEmma. Thank you
8 days to go until my #royalparkshalf -Please sponsor me at justgiving.com/fundraising/e… #firsthalfmarathon 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️ Raising funds for @oraclecancer and cutting-edge #cancerresearch
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Congratulations to Dhruva Biswas (PhD student co-sup with @SwantonLab) + @nbirkbak for the publication of "A clonal expression biomarker associates with lung cancer mortality” in @NatureMedicine (nature.com/articles/s41591-0…)
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At the #LundbeckAlumni19 learning how to use twitter for scientists! Thank you @MkeYoung & @lundbeckfonden :)
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