Poster Presentation The 16th Australian Peptide Conference 2025

Peptidomimetics to inhibit the SLIT2-ROBO1 interaction as a gateway to attenuate pancreatic adenocarcinoma (#137)

Mohsen Hosseini 1 , Selina Mader 2 , Nicolo Bisi 1 , Ilyana Gonzales 1 , Charlie Hollanders 1 , Wim Versées 3 , Ilse Rooman 2 , Steven Ballet 1
  1. Research group of organic chemistry-ORGC, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
  2. Laboratory for Medical and Molecular Oncology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
  3. Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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