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Elien Heylen

KU LeuvenORCID 0000-0002-8102-3209Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cancer & tumor microenvironment· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1 Assay:scRNA-seq· 1

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Alex Jordan· 1 shared Anaís Sánchez‐CastilloiD· 1 shared Annalisa OcchipintiiD· 1 shared Claudio AngioneiD· 1 shared Daan DierickxiD· 1 shared Gabriela D’AmicoiD· 1 shared Gabriella DowiD· 1 shared Ilaria EliaiD· 1 shared

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2026-2026 · peak 2/yr

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Cancer BiologybioRxivPreprintSep 25, 2026

β3-Integrin controls pericyte metabolic states and shapes tumour-stromal metabolic crosstalk in breast cancer

Elien Heylen, Alex Jordan, Katie Baird…·Kairbaan Hodivala‐Dilke

This study identifies two β3-integrin-dependent metabolic states in pericytes and shows their impact on tumour-stromal metabolic interactions in breast cancer.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.21.751368

humanspatial transcriptomics

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Cancer BiologybioRxivPreprintAug 19, 2026

Sertraline and Carfilzomib Synergize to Target T-cell Malignancies with Serine/Glycine synthesis activity via Cholesterol Dysregulation, Cellular Stress and Immune Modulation

Paulien Verstraete, Elien Heylen, Anaís Sánchez‐Castillo…·Kim De Keersmaecker

This paper shows that sertraline and carfilzomib work together to kill T-cell cancers by disrupting metabolism and changing the immune environment.

DOI 10.64898/2026.08.17.744660

mouseproteomics

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