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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

1/2 Today is the last day to submit your abstract for the Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference!

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1/2 We’re excited to announce our Industry Session keynote for the Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference! Rachael Nimmo (former director of the Cell Technology Group at OXB).

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

1/2 The Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference presents the Industry Session, featuring Lorenz Mayr (BioMedTech Consulting) Cristiana Pires (Asgard Therapeutics), and Sara Mangsbo (Uppsala University).

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

1/2 Good news! ✨ The abstract submission deadline for the Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference has been extended until 1 Sept 2026.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

1/2 The Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference introduces Session 3: Delivery Technologies & Translation, joining Alexandra Teleki (Uppsala University), Jai Prakash (Radboud University Medical Centre), and Samir El Andaloussi (Karolinska Institutet).

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

1) 📢 New study out in @CellReports: We uncover how microRNAs (miRNAs) and their isoforms (isomiRs) regulate immune cell specification and reprogramming. Read it here: www.cell.com/cell-reports... A thread 🧵 #microRNA #reprogramming #immunotherapy

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

1/2 ⏰Last days to submit your abstract for the Immunity by Design: In VivoImmune Cell Engineering Conference! Join us in Lund, 22-23 Oct 2026 for two days of inspiring scientific discussions and networking with leaders in immune engineering and immunotherapy.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

1/2 We’re thrilled to announce our fourth keynote speaker for the Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference! Willem Mulder (Radboud University Medical Center/ Eindhoven University of Technology) is a leading researcher in immune-imaging and precision immunotherapy.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1/2 We’re happy to announce our third keynote speaker for the Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference! Sine Reker Hadrup (Technical University of Denmark) develops technological platforms to study T cell reactivity in disease contexts.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1/4 The Pereira Lab is at the New York Symposium on Immune Cell Engineering and Reprogramming (@biohub.org) This is an opportunity to connect with the immune engineering network & to celebrate our awarded project “A ‘sense-and-reprogram’ platform for systemic cancer immunotherapy”.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

1/2 The Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference introduces Session 2: Synthetic Biology & Gene Editing, joining William Nyberg (Karolinska Institutet), Axel Hyrenius-Wittsten (Lund University), and Mirco Friedrich (DKFZ German Cancer Research Center).

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

1/2 The Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference will have a dedicated @scilifelab.se session with Tina Catela Ivkovic (Center for Translational Genomics), Mikael Mattsson (Drug Discovery and Development), and Anahita Bakochi (BioMS).

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

1/2 The Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference introduces Session 1: Cell Engineering & Reprogramming. The Pereira lab will share the stage with Judit Svensson Arvelund and Özcan Met to discuss emerging approaches in immune cell engineering and cancer immunotherapy.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

1/2 We’re thrilled to announce Adi Barzel (Tel Aviv University) as a keynote speaker for Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference! His work explores in vivo genome editing and strategies to engineer T and B cells for therapeutic applications.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1/2 We’re excited to announce our first keynote speaker for Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference! Sai Reddy (ETH Zurich) works on engineering the immunogenome & reprogramming immune cells for applications in biotechnology, vaccination & immunotherapy.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

1/2 Registration is OPEN for the Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference!✨ Join us in Lund 22–23 Oct 2026 in a vibrant environment that brings together researchers from all career stages. #ImmuneEngineering #Immunotherapy #BiotechIndustry

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Last chance to apply for the DDLS PhD student positions! 🚨 Deadline is today. Don’t miss the opportunity! #PhD #DDLS

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

1/4 Our new protocol paper is out in STAR Protocols!🎉✨ We outline how to identify transcription factor (TFs) networks for immune cell reprogramming. Read full paper here: www.cell.com/star-protoco...

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

1/2 If you didn’t have an exciting scientific event planned for the Fall, you do now! We are thrilled to announce the Immunity by Design: In VivoImmune Cell Engineering Conference, taking place in Lund 22-23 October 2026. #ImmuneEngineering #Immunotherapy #BiotechIndustry

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🔬 Lund University (@lund-university.bsky.social) is hiring 3 Assistant Professors in cancer immunotherapy, immunotechnology & immune cell engineering! ✅ Start-up package | tenure track | world-class infrastructure 📅 Deadlines: 26 May & 10 June 2026 🎥 youtu.be/z-PQU9qknZc Apply links 👇

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

1/1 We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Immuno-oncology and Immune Cell Engineering to join the newly established Division of Immuno-Oncology at Lund University! @lund-university.bsky.social

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

1/4 We are recruiting! Our lab was awarded a PhD grant from @scilifelab.se Data-driven Life Science (DDLS) Research School for the project “A virtual cellular reprogramming screening platform”. #DataDrivenLifeScience #CellReprogramming

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

1/3 Huge congrats to our team member Sandhya Malla @sa2430ma.bsky.social, who was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by #Cancerfonden with her project “Decoding The Regulatory Grammar of Transcription Factor-Mediated Immune Reprogramming”!

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

1/2 Our PhD student Abigail Altman was one of three winners for Best Poster at the 2026 DGfI-Spring School on Immunology (@dgfi-org.bsky.social) held in the village of Ettal. She presented an outstanding poster: Programming Dendritic Cell Diversity with Direct Cell Reprogramming for Immunotherapy.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It was a great pleasure to speak two weeks ago at the Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology in Coimbra! #SPI #Immunology #CancerImmunotherapy

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

1/2 New PhD students, new ideas, new science! Excited to see what we’ll build and discover together. Welcome to the lab!✨ Find out more: pereiralab.com

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Currently on the slopes of Keystone, Colorado attending the for the Symposium Myeloid Cells: Functional Heterogeneity with Therapeutic Promise. It has been a fantastic meeting so far; inspiring science, great discussions on the slopes, and exciting new perspectives on myeloid cells.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Excited to welcome our new postdocs to the lab! Looking forward to exciting science, collaborations, and discoveries together. Welcome aboard!✨ Read more about them on our website: pereiralab.com

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

We are happy to announce that Ervin Ascic was awarded the Best Cancer Thesis of 2025 at Lund University!

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We’re excited to share that our recent paper, “A combinatorial transcription factor screening platform for immune cell reprogramming”, has been selected for the cover of the January issue of Cell Systems!✨

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Addgene @addgene.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

New from @cellreprolab.bsky.social! The REPROcode library is a collection of over 400 immune-related human transcription factors in barcoded lenti vectors. Explore the set and find your favorite or mix-and-match: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

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Addgene: A combinatorial transcription factor screening platform for immune cell reprogramming

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

📢 New study from out lab published in @CellSystemsCP: REPROcode — a combinatorial single-cell screening platform to discover the transcription-factor (TF) recipes that reprogram immune cells. Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A combinatorial transcription factor screening platform for immune cell reprogramming

Direct reprogramming of immune cells holds promise for immunotherapy but is constrained by limited knowledge of transcription factor (TF) networks. He…

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

1/3 It’s an honor to share that our lab was awarded a Discovery grant from the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) for the project “In vivo Dendritic Cell Reprogramming as a New Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma”. @theabta.bsky.social

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

1/4 Great to share that our lab was awarded a research grant from the Mats Paulsson Foundation for Research, Innovation and Societal Development for the project “Advancing Reactive Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy with Cellular Reprogramming”.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

1/2 Sharing exciting news! ✨ Our recently published paper “Anchored screening identifies transcription factor blueprints underlying dendritic cell diversity and subset-specific anti-tumor immunity” has been selected for the cover of the October issue of Immunity! @cp-immunity.bsky.social

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

1/3 Congrats to our team member @Peng Wei, who was awarded a SciLifeLab PULSE Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project SMARD, which will develop small molecule (SM)-assisted reprogramming to type 1 conventional dendritic cells (cDC1)! For more info see: pereiralab.com/lab-news/pen...

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Peng Wei Awarded a SciLifeLab PULSE Postdoctoral Fellowship - Pereira Lab

The researcher Peng Wei from Pereira Lab was awarded a SciLifeLab PULSE Postdoctoral Fellowship for the project SMARD—Small Molecule-Assisted Cell Reprogramming to cDC1. The SciLifeLab PULSE is a comp...

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

1/2 Celebrating a double win!✨ Yesterday, at the Lund Stem Cell Center (LSCC) retreat, Ervin Ascic was awarded the Article of the Year Award with our Science paper "In vivo dendritic cell reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy" (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

1/3 Call for Authors! We are currently editing a volume on Cellular Reprogramming for Immunotherapy for the Methods in Molecular Biology series (Springer Nature). This volume will steer the future of the field and is a great way to share your lab’s protocols!

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We are proud to announce that Ervin Ascic successfully defended his PhD yesterday – with the special honor of Nobel Laureate James Allison as opponent! ✨ Ervin’s work makes a strong contribution, showing that in vivo dendritic cell reprogramming is paving the way toward the clinic.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

📢 New in @ImmunityCP: We have mapped the transcription factor “routes” that program two dendritic cell subsets opening paths for personalized #cancer #immunotherapy. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.im... Here is a summary of what we discovered 🧵: Illustration by @azuravesta.bsky.social

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

1/6 Congrats to Margarida Brás and Daniel Oliveira that were awarded with PhD studentships from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

1/3 Our most recent protocol paper, “Tractable In Vivo Reprogramming of Tumor Cells to Type 1 Conventional Dendritic Cell-like Cells”, is out in JoVE! @JoVEJournal

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Doubly proud! 🎉 @inesncaiado and @luisfholiveira defended their PhDs this month with a big audience of cell reprogrammers. They brilliantly discussed their great contributions to the future of the field.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

1/3 Glad to share that the work of our Postdoctoral Fellow Sandhya Malla @mal71056 secured funding from the Hanseatic Life Science Research Infrastructure Consortium (HALRIC) to study the mechanisms of dendritic cell reprogramming!

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

1/3 Congrats to our team member Hugo Couto Moreira, who was awarded a Doctoral INPhINIT Retaining Fellowship from “la Caixa” Foundation to develop his PhD project “Reprogramming Regulatory T-cells”! @FundlaCaixa

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It’s an honor to share that our lab was awarded a Clinic & Laboratory Integration Program (CLIP) grant from the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) for the project “Engineering Synthetic Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in Melanoma with Dendritic Cell Reprogramming”. @CancerResearch

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

1/2 The interview series "Reprogramming Stars" featured in Cellular Reprogramming, highlights the work of leaders in the field by introducing them and their science in exciting talks. @CellRepJrnl

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

1/2 Congrats to our PhD student @ervin_ascic for winning the best poster award in “Improving Immunity” at the 22nd #CIMT Annual Meeting, Europe's Cancer Immunotherapy Meeting, held this year in Mainz, Germany. His work was regarded as an interesting, state-of-the-art technology.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

1/3 We are excited to announce that the project Repro-TIL, standing for “Breakthrough Neoantigen-specific Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapies Through Novel Dendritic Cell Reprogramming”, was awarded a EIC Transition grant! @EUeic

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I am excited to share that I will presenting the latest advances in in vivo reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy at the Science Spotlight session during the #ISSCR2025 Annual Meeting in Hong Kong, June 11-14, 2025.

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