Sofia Ramalho

New group photo for 2026! ✨🌟Kicking off the year with frozen-lake walking and a snowball fight❄️☃️. And most importantly, Happy Birthday to our great PhD student @josefcomh.bsky.social

Fasting boosts breast cancer therapy efficacy via glucocorticoid activation - Nature Beneficial effects of fasting combined with endocrine therapy for oestrogen receptor-α-expressing breast cancers can be recapitulated using exogenous glucocorticoid receptor ligands instead of fasting to reduce harmful effects.

Therapies to mimic the metabolic effects of fasting might improve the effectiveness of hormone treatments for breast cancer, according to a study in Nature. The research finds that the metabolites associated with fasting can boost anti-tumour properties involved in some cellular pathways. #medsky 🧪

Huge congrats to our brilliant postdocs, @catarinapechincha.bsky.social and @sofiaramalho.bsky.social on both being awarded EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships @embo.org ! This is a major milestone for the group and truly one of the best Christmas gifts we could receive.🎉🎉🎉

Ribosomes are just like people. They are diverse, they can dance, collide, and experience stress. During stress, the translation process plays a key role in the development of cancer, a discovery made by PhD candidate Sofia Ramalho ➡️ www.nki.nl/news-events/... @sofiaramalho.bsky.social

Also a big thank you to my amazing supervisors and mentors @thejoanasilva.bsky.social and @liamfaller.bsky.social for all you taught me during these years. Finally thanks to my paranymphs @ferhatalkan.bsky.social, @ipaniaguacabana.bsky.social, @nunopadrao.bsky.social, Domenica for being by my side

Last Thursday I defended my PhD at @erasmusmc.bsky.social Thank you so much to all that joined the defence and to @maxkoppers.bsky.social, @madelonmaurice.bsky.social, Celia Berkers and Vered Raz for the great scientific discussion.

Detecting ribosome collisions with differential rRNA fragment analysis in ribosome profiling data Abstract. It has become clear in recent years that ribosomes regularly stall during translation. Such translation impairment has many causes, including exp

New paper from the lab! Want to know if there is a difference in ribosome collisions between your samples? We show that you can detect this in the rRNA reads in your ribosome profiling data.

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On this #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience we proudly present to you: our roving scientist! She supports women scientists during their maternity leave, which often happens during a crucial phase in their careers.
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Beyond happy to share with you that mine and @thejoanasilva.bsky.social latest work is out in Science Advances! Thank you so much to everyone who took part in this story, especially to @liamfaller.bsky.social and Joana for all supervision. Go check it out! ☺️

📢 Applications for the NKI PhD program open from Jan 1 - Feb 28. Join our international research community in Amsterdam, working in cancer biology, AI research & life sciences with leading scientists and top facilities #PhD #CancerResearch More info: bit.ly/3O4bOjq

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

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Are you a scientist working or interested in RNA Translation? Join our starter pack and share ideas, methodologies and tips to advance our knowledge in how life came to be!
#RNA #ribosome

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Super nice! Congrats 😊