I am incredibly honored and excited to receive the Nature Award for Mentoring in Science.
Mentoring is the most rewarding part of being a scientist.
At the end of the day, it’s all about the people 🙏🏼♥️
Neta Erez studies the role tumor-promoting inflammation and immune suppression have in breast cancer and melanoma metastasis. Her enthusiasm for mentoring and sharing her knowledge and skills with others is highly appreciated by all of her mentees.
Our paper is out in
@NatureComms
!!
Lead by
@LMonteran
@NourErshaid
We set out to study the adverse effects of chemotherapy in breast cancer that lead to induction of tissue damage, inflammation and metastatic relapse.
Our paper is out in
@NatureCancer
and we are super excited!! Check it out here:
It was a long journey led bravely by the wonderful
@AdlerOmer
and
@YaelZait
together with multiple team members and collaborators.
So what did we find?
Happy to share our new paper: we established a model of spontaneous breast cancer metastasis to bone and found that the immune microenvironment in bone is modified towards immune suppression. Well done
@LMonteran
and all the team!
Happy to share our new review: A glitch in the matrix: organ-specific matrisomes in metastatic niches. We discuss how organ-specific ECM changes support metastatic progression in lung, liver, bone, and brain.
@TrendsCellBio
#metastasis
#ECM
During my talk to a British audience today there was a siren because of a rocket attack on TA, and I went to the shelter. When I came back the audience looked more shook up than I.
I realized that their response is probably more normal than mine. Praying for an end to violence.
Amidst all the darkness and grief, we are still committed to continue with our research.
Our new study on the lung pre-metastatic niche was published in
@CR_AACR
in collaboration with
@shouval_lab
Here is what we found:
Happy to share our new study! We show that IL-33 from metastasis-associated fibroblasts in lungs facilitates breast cancer metastasis by modifying the immune microenvironment and by driving type-2 immunity.
@CR_AACR
#CAF
#immuneTME
Happy to share that I have been elected to the
#EACR
board! Looking forward to getting involved in the important activities of the EACR to promote and support
#CancerResearch
.
And warm congratulations to our President Elect
@samuels_yardena
!!
@EACRnews
Volunteered today with my students and many others from
@TelAvivUni
to help farmers in the south that lost their workers in the
#HamasisISIS
attack.
Lots of lettuce,
good people
and hope.
Celebrating the acceptance of our paper to Nature Comm with the amazing two first authors
@NourErshaid
and
@LeaMonteran
(more details soon) and also the Jewish New Year. Luckily all the kids are at the university day care so they joined us. Shana Tova!!! 🍎🍾
A heartbreaking day in Israel. We are under attack since 6:30am. Thousands of rockets were fired, and a horrific land infiltration of Hamas into villages and cities in south of Israel. Hundreds of civilians were killed and taken hostage. Thanks to all our friends for your support
We were happy to highlight the beautiful work from Shannon Turley, implicating LRRC15+ CAFs in promoting
#PDAC
, by suppressing the antitumor immunity of cytotoxic T cells. We discussed the complexity of targeting fibroblasts.
@LMonteran
Check it out here:
Happy International Women's Day
#IWD2023
!
@NatureCancer
supports
#WomenInScience
- please join us to celebrate some of the wonderful female scientists & clinicians who recently published their work with us – we hope you are inspired by them! 👩🔬
Happy to share our study, and super proud of my amazing student
@NourErshaid
and the rest of the team! We show that sensing tissue damage by fibroblasts activates the NLRP3 inflammasome, facilitating tumor growth and lung metastasis.
Happy to see our review on fibroblasts and immune suppression is online
#fibroblasts
@FrontImmunol
Frontiers | The Dark Side of Fibroblasts: Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts as Mediators of Immunosuppression in the Tumor Microenvironment | Immunology
We're proud to present our latest
@CD_AACR
study, in collaboration with
@ErezNeta
, unraveling the intricacies of immune cells in breast cancer metastasis & revealing that TREM2 macrophages regulate the invasive margins of metastases. >>> (1/12)
Our study is out in
@CellReports
!!
We show that inflammatory signalling by astrocytes promotes brain tropism of melanoma cells via the CXCL10-CXCR3 axis, and targeting CXCR3 inhibited brain metastasis.
#Melanoma
#Metastasis
Our paper is out in International Journal of Cancer!
We show that melanoma-derived extracellular vesicles instigate pro- inflammatory signaling in lung fibroblasts and in astrocytes
@IntJCanc
#Melanoma
#extracellularvesicle
Happy Hanukkah from the Erez lab!! So great to have everyone for our traditional party!! 2022 was a good science year for us 🤗 Wishing all our friends and collaborators around the world light and joy. Merry Christmas and a wonderful year of science and fun in 2023!!🥳🤗
Honored to be part of an amazing team shortlisted for a
#CancerGrandChallenge
award. The Plasticity-Tx team led by
@CedricBlanpain
Challenging cancer requires synergy, interdisciplinary ideas and team efforts.
📣 BREAKING NEWS 📣
We're excited to announce the 12 teams shortlisted for a
#CancerGrandChallenges
award. Each team has the chance to receive up to $25m to make radical progress against cancer’s toughest challenges.
Discover the teams:
@theNCI
@CR_UK
Thank you
@MelanomaReAlli
for this award! Your support will help us discover and learn how to better target neuroinflammation n melanoma brain metastasis.
It's all about the base!
Check out our new review in
@trendscancer
:
With
@LMonteran
@YaelZait
we discuss the fascinating roles, similarities and unique tasks of organ-specific stromal cells- CAFs, osteoblasts and astrocytes in their metastatic niches.
First meeting abroad after two years! It has been a wonderful meeting
@MelanomaReAlli
retreat in Washington. So wonderful to see friends and catch up on great science!
הישג לפרופ' נטע ארז במלחמה למניעת #סרטןהשד
החוקרים גילו שינויים ברקמת ה #ריאות המעידים על הכנה לקליטה של תאים סרטניים:
למאמר שפורסם בכתב העת
@eLife
לכתבה ב-
@WallaNews
...
@ErezNeta
Me in 2009, a postdoc in the Hanahan lab. ( the trend in Israel today- photos from 2009, before Netanyahu became PM..
Hoping for a fresh start for Israel today!
Happy Hanukkah from the Erez lab! 🕎❤️
May the darkness, fear and grief of the last months be replaced with light and hope.
Praying for the safety of our soldiers and the return of the kidnapped.
The wonderful
@AshaniTW
telling us how age and sex of the host are critical in tumor growth and metastasis. We should all keep that in mind when working in pre-clinical
@models
!
#AACR22
#TME
So very proud of my student
@AdlerOmer
for winning the CBRC Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Achievements in Cancer Research.
He will be presenting his beautiful work at the seminar this week.
#proudPI
@TelAvivUni
@TAUMedFaculty
The inspiring, amazing and absolutely outstanding
@AshaniTW
, is the well deserved recipient of the Paget-Ewing award of the
@MetastasisRS
. She is teaching us on the aged
#TME
and is also always a role model of a person and scientist. Congrats Ashi!!
#MRS2022
Happy Hanukkah from the Erez lab!! 🔥🔥We had our traditional party to celebrate light, friendship and the joy of science. So grateful to work with and mentor these wonderful people!
Lab fun day after so long!!
A tour and lecture at an herb and spice farm, followed by a Thai cooking class and a yummy and spicy meal.
So grateful to have such a wonderful team!! ♥️
Happy
#WomenInScienceDay
to all the inspirational women that I was lucky to learn from, work with, learn from and teach. May we always support each other and grow 🤗
#WomenInSTEM
The December issue of
@CD_AACR
is now online! The cover features exciting work on spatial and temporal mapping of breast cancer lung metastases by
@IdoYofe
,
@ErezNeta
,
@IdoAmitLab
, and colleagues - Read this and more here:
Thank you
@ednacukierman
and
@MaraShermanLab
for an excellent woman power session on
#CAFs
today.
It was a pleasure to moderate the session and the discussion. We still have a long way to go, but we are making progress!
#AACR2021
Happy new year from our lab! In 2021, wishing us all a year of excellent science, and hopefully we will be able to meet each other in person, hug our friends and share drinks! 🥂
A wonderful day celebrating
#DougHanahan
with alumni and friends. Beautiful tributes, excellent science and catching up with old friends in beautiful Lausanne. Feeling very grateful that I had such an amazing and inspiring mentor! Thank you
@Johanna_A_Joyce
for organizing this!
Honored to be nominated as Board Member of the Metastasis Research Society
@MetastasisRS
. Looking forward to contribute to this important cause. Get ready to vote!!
#MRS
Location matters not only in real estate, but also in metastasis.
Happy to share a short viewpoint I wrote in
@MolOncology
on understanding the metastatic microenvironment.
@EACRnews
#metastasis
The third update to the iconic “Hallmarks of Cancer” by Doug Hanahan just published in Cancer Discovery.
@CD_AACR
Updated features include epigenetic reprogramming, phenotypic plasticity, cellular senescence and of course, the microbiome. A must read!!
Fantastic opening keynote lecture by the amazing
#DougHanahan
, my postdoc mentor. Always fascinating and innovative. Looking forward to a wonderful meeting
#EACR2023
We are excited to announce our upcoming
#RedditAMA
session! Join us on March 3rd, 10am PT for an exclusive opportunity to ask
@TelAvivUni
's Head of Tumor Biology Laboratory & Chair of the Department of
#Pathology
, Prof. Neta Erez about anything
#Cancer
,
#CancerResearch
and more!
Colleagues at
#EACR2023
congress:
@ErezNeta
and I will be sharing thoughs and ideas on mentoring and on gender actions, and would like to know about yours.
Do not miss our "Meet the Expert" session on June 13.
For women and men alike 😉
@TelAvivUni
@CNIOStopCancer
@EACRnews
We were extremely disappointed by the weak statement by
@AACR
to the massacre and war in Israel. See here our response letter, already signed by over 1000 oncologists and cancer researchers.
#HamasisISIS
#StandsWithIsrael
Our response letter to
@AACR
following its weak statement on the crisis in Israel-Gaza. Already signed by >1,000 Israeli cancer researchers and oncologists, including Nobel Laureates, Israel Prize awardees and the leading oncologists in the country.
Despite improved survival rates,
#BreastCancer
still kills thousands of people every year. So what does the future hold for breast cancer research? We asked 3 expert cancer researchers what they think needs to be done to find more cures for this disease: .
I really can’t believe they published this.
Is this to discourage
#WomenInSTEM
? To discourage mentorship by female PIs? To keep the existing order? I’m grateful for the wisdom and generosity of my female mentors!
Our wonderful (former) president
@JAguirreGhiso
is opening the final session of
#MRS2022
with some of his beautiful and important studies on tumor dormancy and how to understand and exploit to prevent metastatic relapse.
@MetastasisRS
Happy to participate in the
@MelanomaReAlli
scientific retreat on
#melanoma
. Love the title of this year’s meeting and super excited to present our work on brain
#metastases
tomorrow morning!
@ErezNeta
covered my favorite topic of metastasis and showed two exciting stories of how big is a role of homing organ for metastatic outgrowth
#THPT23
I came across this inspiring piece by Sarah-Maria Fendt
@FendtLab
in
@NatureCellBio
this morning.
Thank you Sarah-Maria for sharing these important insights.
It's always a process. Success is more likely to come to those who use their failures to grow.
On
#InternationalWomensDay2022
I am grateful for all the strong, kind, inspiring
#WomenInSTEM
and in other parts of life that supported me along my path. I am committed to supporting other women. Helping each other makes us all stronger!
A fantastic talk on anti-tumor immunity and immune suppression in melanoma, by the illustrious
@msmelanoma
to end this excellent meeting!
#EACR2023
@EACRnews
see you next year in Rotterdam!
It was a pleasure to participate in the wonderful
#CRsy2022
conference at the
@ChampalimaudF
. Excellent talks, wonderful science and great company. Thank you!
This is really mind blowing. Breast cancer cells are more likely to intravasate and spread during sleep?
The metastatic spread of breast cancer accelerates during sleep | Nature
Happy new Jewish year to those who celebrate. From an unusual location this year in Utah, USA, wishing you a year full of kindness, friendship and breakthrough discoveries. Shana Tova!!
So true!!
Affordable daycares and a culture that accepts the fact that you do not have to chose between parenthood and career make all the difference.
#WomenInSTEM
Daycare. Daycare. Daycare.
This is the most important thing institutes can do to help
#parentscientists
(not just mums!) - either on-site, or financial supplements to pay for this big additional expense
If you really care about
#genderequity
, this is how you can help get there!