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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Congratulations to Ki Hong Lee & Moritz Jakab for their landmark paper in Nature Commun showing that endothelial cell Wnt-mediated angiocrine signaling in the liver is controlled by hemodynamic forces and not by oxygen gradients. Stunningly beautiful work! www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-76966-7

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Congratulations to Xiaowen Zhang for her spectacular publication in Cancer Discovery identifying a subpopulation of LPL-expressing intratumoral endothelial cells that decisively controls the anti-tumor immune response in liver metastases. See: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Exciting new work for the Angiopoietin aficionado: Angiopoietin dysregulation as early hallmark of amyloid- driven vascular dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease. Must read work from the Wysscoray and Keller laboratories published on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social.

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Three new @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants for vascular researchers: Congratulations to Vanessa Coelho-Santos (@vcoelhosantoslab.bsky.social) for "AngioArchitects“ (LS5], Leire Bejarano for "MetaVasc" (LS4], and Mahak Singhal for "Vascular Rhythm" (LS4). Great success!

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Congratulations to Mahak Singhal @uniheidelberg.bsky.social on being awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for his project "Vascular-Rhythm" focussing on "DeClocking the vascular rhythmic control of tissue homeostasis and disease initiation". Pioneering a new branch of vascular research!

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

2025 has been an intense and in part rough year. Time to let body and soul heal and recover. Found a wonderful place overlooking Costa Adeje on the lovely island Tenerife (www.oceanviewmontesol.com). Spectacular view – plenty activities – great new ideas - feels like rejuvenation - check it out!

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Still time to apply to the 2 open 6-year Junior Group Leader positions at the European Center for Angioscience (ECAS) at Heidelberg University. Application deadline is September, 10, 2025.

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Interested in pursuing a postdoc in the Augustin lab at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg (www.augustinlab.de)? Working at the interface of angioscience and metastasis. Apply to the DKFZ postdoctoral fellowship program (www.dkfz.de/en/karriere/...). Deadline: Sept. 15, 2025.

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Spread the word: The European Center for Angioscience @uniheidelberg.bsky.social continues to grow: We have openings for 2 additional Junior Group Leader positions. Get in touch with us if you are ready to start your own lab. See also corresponding ad in @nature.com: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Following our epigenetic placental vasculature paper in Dev Cell‬ (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), the second chapter of our vascular epigenetic trilogy was now published in @narjournal.bsky.social‬ (academic.oup.com/nar/article/...): DNMT3A regulation of EC enhancer landscape. More to come!

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Yale Cancer Center @yalecancer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Don Nguyen, PhD, (center) chaired an Education Session at #AACR25 on Non-Genetic Drivers of Cancer Metastasis featuring @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social and Dr. Ashley Laughney. @theaacr.bsky.social @yalepathology.bsky.social

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Another hyped study published in Nature Medicine claiming to have developed a predictive test for the identification of women at risk of developing preeclampsia. Sobering: The predictive value is no better than the cheap routine measurement of sICAM-1 and sVCAM-1 reported more than 20 years ago.

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Gratifying to now see our pericrine liver signaling work in the print version of @Nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). Massive piece of work with 651 display items (174 main, 477 supplement). Feels like we are publishing books and not papers. Thanks to Robert Schwabe for great collaboration!

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Angiocrine signaling is rocking - pericrine signaling is the new kid on the block: Hepatic stellate cells control liver function (‘HSCs make the liver great again’) - now published @nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08677-w). Fantastic collaboration with the Schwabe lab at Columbia Uni

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Spectacular hemangioma work from Joyce Bischoff's lab in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social. Fantastic basic science (discovery of SOX18-mevalonate pathway) combined with great translational perspective (drug repurposing). Congrats to Anne Holm! Check it out: dm5migu4zj3pb.cloudfront.net/manuscripts/....

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Hellmut Augustin @hellmutaugustin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Epigenetic regulation of placental vascularization - now published in Developmental Cell (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). Congratulations & thanks to Stephanie Gehrs for fantastic work and paving the way of the www.augustinlab.de into the world of vascular epigenetics. There’s more to come!

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