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Rui Santalla

@ruisantalla.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher | Immunology, cancer and TME | @joycelab.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social 🧪🧬

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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Warmest congratulations to Dr. Rui Santalla Mendez, who recently defended his PhD with flying colours! 🎉🥂🥳 Rui's face says it all - pure happiness 🤩 We’re so proud of you @ruisantalla.bsky.social, and excited to see what comes next! 🙌 @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Really enjoying #EACR2026 with many of the Joyce lab members here in force 🙌 Sharing lots of new unpublished data - a privilege as always to present the research of the wonderful scientists in my group today 🤩 Posters today and tmrw if you want to stop by - no's below ⏬ @helloeacr.bsky.social
Photo of Joyce lab members at #EACR2026 Congress in Budapest
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Celebrating our annual international lab dinner 🎉 👨🏽‍🍳 🧑🏻‍🍳 We are so fortunate to have this amazing team of motivated scientists, and very talented cooks 🤩 sharing delicious food & culture from around the world 🌍🌎🌏 Grateful for our #international #team 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇨🇦🇪🇸🇨🇭🇬🇧🇪🇬🇩🇪🇵🇹🇲🇽🇮🇪 - this truly enriches our science 🙏 🙌
Photo of all our team members at our international lab dinner, with some of the dishes at the front of the picture
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
How can we reawaken the body’s own anti-viral defenses to fight brain cancer? Delighted to share our new study where we now answer this question, led by the brilliant @alvarezprado.bsky.social who is now an independent PI at LIH Luxembourg 👏👏 #BrainTIME 🧠🦠🧪 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Lauren Murphy @l-cmurphy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 I’m thrilled and proud to share that our latest work has just been published in @science.org! 🎉 🧽 📖 Read our paper here: doi.org/10.1126/sci... 🎬 Watch a summary: youtu.be/MttCA3GGWEM 🧵 Or keep reading for the key points! 🔑 1/19
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Máté Kiss @matekiss.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Happy to share that I’ll be starting my lab as a junior group leader at the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt in 2026. We’ll study how transcriptional regulators control neutrophil function in cancer. I’ll be hiring soon (PhD/lab tech), please reach out if you know someone interested!
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Rui Santalla @ruisantalla.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Beyond the (v cool) paper itself, I am intrigued by a few facts: - 80% (!!!) of never-smoker lung cancer patients are women. Are the molecular mechanisms driving this susceptibility known? - First time I read about aristolochic acid– in which plants is this compound present? What are these used for?
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Rui Santalla @ruisantalla.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I never thought this was even possible. I have a thousand questions and a few concerns. Fascinating.
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Celebrating 2️⃣0️⃣ years of the Joyce Lab 🎉 We had an amazing reunion, bringing together past & present lab members from Lausanne & NYC 🏔️🗽 Huge thanks to everyone who came from around the world, shared science & happy memories and together made this milestone really special 😍 #JoyceLab20 #ProudMentor
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Wishing our amazing postdoc @lbejarano.bsky.social continued success and happiness - as she leaves us to start her own lab in Spain 🎉🥳 Leire has been one of the most positive, creative, and kind scientists I've had the privilege to mentor - we shall all miss you so much! #NewPI 🤩 #ProudMentor 😊
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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Congratulations to @annagavrilenko.bsky.social, a wonderful scientist in our lab for successfully defending her master's thesis on brain metastasis & completing her MSc degree with flying colours at @unil.bsky.social 🤩🎉 Special thanks also to @ruisantalla.bsky.social her super MSc lab supervisor 🙏
Photo of Anna Gavrilenko and Rui Santalla Mendez, taken outside the Agora Cancer Centre in Lausanne
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Why do brain metastases resist #immunotherapy — even when the same cancer responds outside the #brain? 🧠🧪💥 We just published a study diving into this question ⏬ Led by an amazing (former) PhD student in my lab —Vladimir Wischnewski 🎉 🧵 1/ @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It’s just bad news all the time now.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/02/2025
“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo
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U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
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Nature @nature.com · 24/02/2025
The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether. go.nature.com/43ao2zq
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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Excited to share a new paper from our lab 😀 We investigate the tumor microenvironment - to reveal factors influencing cancer progression & therapy response 🔬🧪 So we naturally wanted to ask - does the gut #microbiome influence brain #metastasis 🦠 🧠? Massara et al 2025 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Celebrating the start of the holiday season with our wonderful lab 🎄🎅 🎁 Grateful for this incredible, fun team - and a great year of science together 🤩🙏 Happy holidays!! 🌟🥂❄️🎉
Lab Christmas dinner
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Rui Santalla @ruisantalla.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Jacco came to Lausanne a few months ago and presented this beautiful story from his lab. I love the additional layer of complexity regarding biological cycles in cancer, beyond (now more common) circadian rhythms
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