Epernicus: Virna F Cortez-Retamozo, Ph.D.

Virna F Cortez-Retamozo, Ph.D.

Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow

Center for Systems Biology

Center for Molecular Imaging Research

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Advisors:
Mikael J Pittet, Ralph Weissleder
Degrees:

Ph.D., Applied Biological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium)

M.Sc., Molecular Biology, Free University of Brussels, Catholic University of Leuven and University of Antwerp, Belgium

B.Sc., Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Saint Francis Xavier (Sucre, Bolivia)
Past Advisors:

Patrick De Baetselier (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Serge Muyldermans (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Hilde Revets (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
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Communities:

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Virna Cortez-Retamozo's Publications (8)

Behavior of endogenous tumor-associated macrophages assessed in vivo using a functionalized nanoparticle.
Leimgruber A, Berger C, Cortez-Retamozo V, Etzrodt M, Newton AP, Waterman P, Figueiredo JL, Kohler RH, Elpek N, Mempel TR, Swirski FK, Nahrendorf M, Weissleder R, Pittet MJ

Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.). 2009 May;11(5):459-68, 2 p following 468
Camelid immunoglobulins and nanobody technology
Serge Muyldermans, Toya N Baral , Virna F Cortez-Retamozo, Patrick De Baetselier, Erwin De Genst, J Kline, H Leonhardt, Stefan Magez, Viet K Nguyen, Hilde Revets, U Rothbauer, Benoit Stijlemans, S Tillib, Ulrich Wernery, Lode Wyns, Gh Hassanzadeh-Ghassabeh, Dirk Saerens

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology . 2009;128(1-3):178-183
Real-time assessment of inflammation and treatment response in a mouse model of allergic airway inflammation.
Cortez-Retamozo V, Swirski FK, Waterman P, Yuan H, Figueiredo JL, Newton AP, Upadhyay R, Vinegoni C, Kohler R, Blois J, Smith A, Nahrendorf M, Josephson L, Weissleder R, Pittet MJ

The Journal of clinical investigation. 2008 Dec;118(12):4058-66
99mTc-Labeled Nanobodies: A New Type of Targeted Probes for Imaging Antigen Expression
Virna F Cortez-Retamozo, Tony Lahoutte, Vicky Caveliers, Lea Olive Tchouate Gainkam, Sophie Hernot, Ann Packeu, Filip De Vos, Chris Vanhove, Serge Muyldermans, Patrick De Baetselier , Hilde Revets

Current Radiopharmaceuticals . 2008;1(3):37-41
Camel Single-Domain Antibodies as Modular Building Blocks to Make Bivalent Constructs for Use in Immunotherapy of Cancer
Virna F Cortez-Retamozo, Natlja Backmann, Peter Senter, Ulrich Wernery, Patrick De Baetselier, Serge Muyldermans, Hilde Revets

ESACT Proceedings/ Animal Cell Technology Meets Genomics/ Proceedings of the 18th ESACT Meeting Granada, Spain. 2006;2:493-495
Efficient cancer therapy with a nanobody-based conjugate.
Cortez-Retamozo V, Backmann N, Senter PD, Wernery U, De Baetselier P, Muyldermans S, Revets H

Cancer research. 2004 Apr 15;64(8):2853-7
Efficient targeting of conserved cryptic epitopes of infectious agents by single domain antibodies. African trypanosomes as paradigm.
Stijlemans B, Conrath K, Cortez-Retamozo V, Van Xong H, Wyns L, Senter P, Revets H, De Baetselier P, Muyldermans S, Magez S

The Journal of biological chemistry. 2004 Jan 9;279(2):1256-61
Efficient tumor targeting by single-domain antibody fragments of camels.
Cortez-Retamozo V, Lauwereys M, Hassanzadeh Gh G, Gobert M, Conrath K, Muyldermans S, De Baetselier P, Revets H

International journal of cancer. Journal international du cancer. 2002 Mar 20;98(3):456-62

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Virna F Cortez-Retamozo, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Virna Cortez-Retamozo's Genealogy

Virna Cortez-Retamozo's Publications (8)