1/2 We’re thrilled to announce our fourth keynote speaker for the Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference! Willem Mulder (Radboud University Medical Center/ Eindhoven University of Technology) is a leading researcher in immune-imaging and precision immunotherapy.

1/2 We’re happy to announce our third keynote speaker for the Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference! Sine Reker Hadrup (Technical University of Denmark) develops technological platforms to study T cell reactivity in disease contexts.

1/4 The Pereira Lab is at the New York Symposium on Immune Cell Engineering and Reprogramming (@biohub.org) This is an opportunity to connect with the immune engineering network & to celebrate our awarded project “A ‘sense-and-reprogram’ platform for systemic cancer immunotherapy”.

1/2 The Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference introduces Session 2: Synthetic Biology & Gene Editing, joining William Nyberg (Karolinska Institutet), Axel Hyrenius-Wittsten (Lund University), and Mirco Friedrich (DKFZ German Cancer Research Center).

1/2 The Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference will have a dedicated @scilifelab.se session with Tina Catela Ivkovic (Center for Translational Genomics), Mikael Mattsson (Drug Discovery and Development), and Anahita Bakochi (BioMS).

1/2 The Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference introduces Session 1: Cell Engineering & Reprogramming. The Pereira lab will share the stage with Judit Svensson Arvelund and Özcan Met to discuss emerging approaches in immune cell engineering and cancer immunotherapy.

1/2 We’re thrilled to announce Adi Barzel (Tel Aviv University) as a keynote speaker for Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference! His work explores in vivo genome editing and strategies to engineer T and B cells for therapeutic applications.

1/2 We’re excited to announce our first keynote speaker for Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference! Sai Reddy (ETH Zurich) works on engineering the immunogenome & reprogramming immune cells for applications in biotechnology, vaccination & immunotherapy.

1/2 Registration is OPEN for the Immunity by Design: In Vivo Immune Cell Engineering Conference!✨ Join us in Lund 22–23 Oct 2026 in a vibrant environment that brings together researchers from all career stages. #ImmuneEngineering #Immunotherapy #BiotechIndustry

Last chance to apply for the DDLS PhD student positions! 🚨 Deadline is today. Don’t miss the opportunity! #PhD #DDLS

Pereira Lab@cellreprolab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/4 We are recruiting! Our lab was awarded a PhD grant from @scilifelab.se Data-driven Life Science (DDLS) Research School for the project “A virtual cellular reprogramming screening platform”. #DataDrivenLifeScience #CellReprogramming

1/4 Our new protocol paper is out in STAR Protocols!🎉✨ We outline how to identify transcription factor (TFs) networks for immune cell reprogramming. Read full paper here: www.cell.com/star-protoco...

1/2 If you didn’t have an exciting scientific event planned for the Fall, you do now! We are thrilled to announce the Immunity by Design: In VivoImmune Cell Engineering Conference, taking place in Lund 22-23 October 2026. #ImmuneEngineering #Immunotherapy #BiotechIndustry

🔬 Lund University (@lund-university.bsky.social) is hiring 3 Assistant Professors in cancer immunotherapy, immunotechnology & immune cell engineering! ✅ Start-up package | tenure track | world-class infrastructure 📅 Deadlines: 26 May & 10 June 2026 🎥 youtu.be/z-PQU9qknZc Apply links 👇

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1/1 We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Immuno-oncology and Immune Cell Engineering to join the newly established Division of Immuno-Oncology at Lund University! @lund-university.bsky.social

1/4 We are recruiting! Our lab was awarded a PhD grant from @scilifelab.se Data-driven Life Science (DDLS) Research School for the project “A virtual cellular reprogramming screening platform”. #DataDrivenLifeScience #CellReprogramming

1/3 Huge congrats to our team member Sandhya Malla @sa2430ma.bsky.social, who was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by #Cancerfonden with her project “Decoding The Regulatory Grammar of Transcription Factor-Mediated Immune Reprogramming”!

1/2 Our PhD student Abigail Altman was one of three winners for Best Poster at the 2026 DGfI-Spring School on Immunology (@dgfi-org.bsky.social) held in the village of Ettal. She presented an outstanding poster: Programming Dendritic Cell Diversity with Direct Cell Reprogramming for Immunotherapy.

It was a great pleasure to speak two weeks ago at the Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology in Coimbra! #SPI #Immunology #CancerImmunotherapy

1/2 New PhD students, new ideas, new science! Excited to see what we’ll build and discover together. Welcome to the lab!✨ Find out more: pereiralab.com

Currently on the slopes of Keystone, Colorado attending the for the Symposium Myeloid Cells: Functional Heterogeneity with Therapeutic Promise. It has been a fantastic meeting so far; inspiring science, great discussions on the slopes, and exciting new perspectives on myeloid cells.

Excited to welcome our new postdocs to the lab! Looking forward to exciting science, collaborations, and discoveries together. Welcome aboard!✨ Read more about them on our website: pereiralab.com

We are happy to announce that Ervin Ascic was awarded the Best Cancer Thesis of 2025 at Lund University!

We’re excited to share that our recent paper, “A combinatorial transcription factor screening platform for immune cell reprogramming”, has been selected for the cover of the January issue of Cell Systems!✨

New from @cellreprolab.bsky.social! The REPROcode library is a collection of over 400 immune-related human transcription factors in barcoded lenti vectors. Explore the set and find your favorite or mix-and-match: www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

Pereira Lab@cellreprolab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 New study from out lab published in @CellSystemsCP: REPROcode — a combinatorial single-cell screening platform to discover the transcription-factor (TF) recipes that reprogram immune cells. Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 New study from out lab published in @CellSystemsCP: REPROcode — a combinatorial single-cell screening platform to discover the transcription-factor (TF) recipes that reprogram immune cells. Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A combinatorial transcription factor screening platform for immune cell reprogramming

Direct reprogramming of immune cells holds promise for immunotherapy but is constrained by limited knowledge of transcription factor (TF) networks. He…

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1/3 It’s an honor to share that our lab was awarded a Discovery grant from the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) for the project “In vivo Dendritic Cell Reprogramming as a New Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma”. @theabta.bsky.social

1/4 Great to share that our lab was awarded a research grant from the Mats Paulsson Foundation for Research, Innovation and Societal Development for the project “Advancing Reactive Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy with Cellular Reprogramming”.

1/2 Sharing exciting news! ✨ Our recently published paper “Anchored screening identifies transcription factor blueprints underlying dendritic cell diversity and subset-specific anti-tumor immunity” has been selected for the cover of the October issue of Immunity! @cp-immunity.bsky.social

1/3 Congrats to our team member @Peng Wei, who was awarded a SciLifeLab PULSE Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project SMARD, which will develop small molecule (SM)-assisted reprogramming to type 1 conventional dendritic cells (cDC1)! For more info see: pereiralab.com/lab-news/pen...

Peng Wei Awarded a SciLifeLab PULSE Postdoctoral Fellowship - Pereira Lab

The researcher Peng Wei from Pereira Lab was awarded a SciLifeLab PULSE Postdoctoral Fellowship for the project SMARD—Small Molecule-Assisted Cell Reprogramming to cDC1. The SciLifeLab PULSE is a comp...

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1/2 Celebrating a double win!✨ Yesterday, at the Lund Stem Cell Center (LSCC) retreat, Ervin Ascic was awarded the Article of the Year Award with our Science paper "In vivo dendritic cell reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy" (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)