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Anton Henssen

@anton-henssen.bsky.social
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Head of preclinical pediatric cancer research @ChariteBerlin ECRC @MDC_Berlin. Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in cancer. Cancer Grand Challenges Team eDyNAmiC

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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
So nice to see our work out in print! Very special to have two of our eDyNAmiC papers in the same issue. What a beautiful cover! Thank you @elizsmckenna.bsky.social !! @aacrjournals.bsky.social
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Thank you for inviting me to talk alongside Ido about our work on ecDNA!
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Elizabeth McKenna @elizsmckenna.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Extrachromosomal DNA-Driven Oncogene Dosage Heterogeneity Promotes Rapid Adaptation to Therapy in MYCN-Amplified Cancers - by Giulia Montuori, Fengyu Tu, anton-henssen.bsky.social, Jan Dörr, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159...
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Cancer Research Horizons @crhorizons.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A huge thank you to all #IEAwards25 winners and nominees for an inspiring evening. We can’t wait to see what’s next on your horizon. Read more: bit.ly/44m94a0 #OnMyHorizon @anton-henssen.bsky.social, @nnennayakanu.bsky.social, @michellecruk.bsky.social @timwitney.bsky.social, @cuh.nhs.uk
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Benjamin Werner @benjaminwerner.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I am excited, our collaborative work on tumours driven by ecDNA amplified MYCN and the underlying copy-number dependent fitness landscape just came out in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social. @anton-henssen.bsky.social @cancergrand.bsky.social aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
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Extrachromosomal DNA-Driven Oncogene Dosage Heterogeneity Promotes Rapid Adaptation to Therapy in MYCN-Amplified Cancers
AbstractExtrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) amplification enhances intercellular oncogene dosage variability and accelerates tumor evolution by violating foundational principles of genetic inheritance throug...
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Fusion Conferences @fusionconf.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@anton-henssen.bsky.social we are looking forward to your presentation at #ecDNA25 in Mexico! Please share with your followers to let them know our early bird registration & talk submission close on 02 June 2025! 💰Grants available ✅More info: bit.ly/42XY0za
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Charlotte Brierley @ckbrierley.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🚨🚨Paper out! 🚨🚨 Delighted to share our work, now published in ‪@natgenet.nature.com‬ 🧬! shorturl.at/94s5S We identified a targetable, chromothripsis-associated genetic event in blast phase (BP) MPN, a particularly poor prognostic subtype of acute leukaemia. 1/n Illustration: Hratch Arbach 🧵👇
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Congrats Juliane and Monika authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Lorenzo de la Rica @ldelarica.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
New @theaacr.bsky.social Cancer Discovery paper on ecDNA in urothelial carcinoma reveals how ecDNAs: 💡 Drive #BladderCancer evolution 💡 Promote immune evasion 💡 Amplify oncogenes 💡 Fuel tumour heterogeneity 💡 May be a biomarker in urine for non-invasive detection aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
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Spatial-Temporal Diversity of Extrachromosomal DNA Shapes Urothelial Carcinoma Evolution and Tumor-Immune Microenvironment
Abstract. Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) presents a promising target for cancer therapy; however, its spatial-temporal diversity and influence on tumor evolution and the immune microenvironment remain l...
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Great conference ! I look forward to attending. 🔥🔥👇🏻👇🏻
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Exciting new paper 🔥🔥👇🏻👇🏻
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Great conference with expert lineup ! I look forward to attending! 🔥🔥👇🏻👇🏻
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Katie Houlahan @khoulahan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The Curtis Lab’s latest study on the genomic architecture of breast cancer from the pre-invasive to metastatic setting is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Complex rearrangements fuel ER+ and HER2+ breast tumours - Nature
A study identifies three dominant genomic archetypes of breast cancer induced by discrete mutational processes, describing a continuum of genomic profiles and detailing the mechanisms underlying the p...
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Eli Van Allen @vanallenlab.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Here's our latest, led by Drs. Riaz Gillani & Ryan Collins - we studied a type of inherited genetic event (structural variants) + risk of developing certain cancers in kids: @danafarber.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rare germline structural variants increase risk for pediatric solid tumors
Pediatric solid tumors are a leading cause of childhood disease mortality. In this work, we examined germline structural variants (SVs) as risk factors for pediatric extracranial solid tumors using ge...
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Important work by Heribert Jürgens and colleagues on how telemedicine can improve the management of patients suffering from sarcoma. 👏🏻👏🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Major milestone in ecDNA research!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥👇🏻👇🏻
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Possu Huang Lab @possuhuanglab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
1/ In two back-to-back papers, we present our de novo TRACeR platform for targeting MHC-I and MHC-II antigens TRACeR for MHC-I: go.nature.com/4gcLzn5 TRACeR for MHC-II: go.nature.com/4gj5OQk
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Mark Dawson @mafdawson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Thrilled to share a wonderful collaboration with Scott Armstrong, Florian Perner & Shellaina Gordon - exciting times ahead! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Catalytic inhibition of KAT6/KAT7 enhances the efficacy and overcomes primary and acquired resistance to Menin inhibitors in MLL leukaemia
Understanding the molecular pathogenesis of MLL fusion oncoprotein (MLL-FP) leukaemia has spawned epigenetic therapies that have improved clinical outcomes in this often-incurable disease. Using genet...
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bendavidlab.bsky.social @bendavidlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Great to see our joint study with @stesantaguida.bsky.social published in this month’s issue of Cancer Discovery: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov... With a super-kind Research Highlight written by Sam Bakhoum:
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Targeting RNA and Protein Turnover in Aneuploid Cancers
Summary:. Aneuploidy, an imbalance in chromosome number, is a hallmark of human cancers with chromosomal instability, and it remains a major therapeutic challenge. In this issue, Ippolito and colleagu...
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 26/11/2024
Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Amazing idea ! Hope it works. Would be very valuable method for early detection.
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Deborah Bourc’his @deborahbourchis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The international Curie « Noncoding Genome » course has been revamped! 👉 Dark genome in cell plasticity and heterogeneity. A session on TEs #TEsky with M.E. Torres Padilla, D.Trono and @aktast.bsky.social. Master, PhD and postdoc fellows, a week in Paris during the Spring? Apply before Feb 15th 📌
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Tulpule Lab @tulpulelab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
First Bluesky post - a BIG update to our study on Ewing sarcoma and other FET fusion-driven cancers. FET fusion oncoproteins are aberrantly recruited to DNA breaks and cause ATM defects, which can be targeted with the ATR inhibitor elimusertib. Updates include: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Barbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Normal breast tissues harbour rare populations of aneuploid epithelial cells - Nature
Using single-cell DNA sequencing we show that most healthy women harbour rare populations of aneuploid epithelial cells with copy number alteration events in their breast tissue that expand and accumu...
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Roel Verhaak @roelverhaak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Right on time to discuss at #SNO2024: Gliocidin is a nicotinamide-mimetic prodrug that targets glioblastoma. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gliocidin is a nicotinamide-mimetic prodrug that targets glioblastoma - Nature
The prodrug gliocidin effectively kills glioblastoma cells by targeting de novo purine synthesis, improving survival in mouse models.
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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center @ucsfcancer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This week 11/22 at 4pm: Howard Chang, MD, PhD @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social presents "Cancer genes beyond chromosomes" at our Friday Seminar Series in Basic and Translational Research ow.ly/vbfJ50UaeaX
Howard Chang, Stanford
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Graham Erwin @grahamerwin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
For my first post here at 🦋, let me tell you about a lovely paper by Richard Koche, @anton-henssen.bsky.social, and colleagues that covers how extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) drives cancer genome remodeling in neuroblastoma. It's a great story about cancer biology and genome organization! 🧬
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
First re-post on @bsky.app . Great collaboration between @kinglhung.bsky.social and team eDyNAmiC !! 🔥🔥👇🏻👇🏻
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Anton Henssen @anton-henssen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi everyone, I just joined @bsky.app and am happy to see so many fellow scientists here! I look forward to posting about cancer research / science and more.
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