Speakers

Roxy Finger is an experienced PhD-candidate who received her education from Leiden University and Utrecht University. She is currently conducting her doctoral research at the Prinses Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on uncovering the onset of rare pediatric liver and brain cancers employing fetal derived liver and brain organoids, with the aim to elucidate potential therapeutic targets for these untreatable diseases.

Roxy has strong expertise in developing human organoid based cancer models utilizing state-of-the-art genetic engineering techniques and she is specializing in dissecting tumor dynamics through, among others, single-cell and bulk RNA-seq approaches. Roxy carries out her PhD in the co-led research lab of Dr. Benedetta Artegiani and Dr. Delilah Hendriks, whose lab has a strong focus on human organoids, development and cancer modeling. Roxy has participated in several international conferences and has strong connections with other leading research institutes, including AMOLF.