Cleo Goyaerts describes herself as a passionate researcher, captivated by the potential of the immune system to de- feat cancer. She obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2015. Following that, she broadened her horizons as a postdoctoral fellow at the Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine New York, where she developed a strong interest in lung cancer immunotherapy and 3D in vitro tumor modelling. Since 2018, she is working as an Assistant Professor at the Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Therapy at the VUB, where the teams are tempting to unravel the missing links within the lung tumor microenvironment that are responsible for the sobering response rates to immunotherapy today. As a people person, she enjoys planting complementary and interdisciplinary collaborations to fuel each other’s interests and enjoy science together. Finally, she grasps every chance to share her enthusiasm for antitumor immunology with peers and non-peers under the guise of ‘knowledge is power and sharing is caring’!
