Olga Blomberg

Biography

After obtaining her bachelor's degree at Amsterdam University College, she continued her studies in oncology and immunology in the Biomedical Sciences Master at the UvA.She was trained at the NKI in the lab of Heinz Jacobs studying DNA damage tolerance, and in the lab of Hidde Ploegh at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research where she studied the requirements of effective cancer immunotherapy using alpaca-derived heavy chain-only nanobodies. In May 2017, she joined the lab of Karin de Visser to study tumor-associated immunosuppressive mechanisms to enhance the success of immunotherapy for metastatic breast cancer.

Research Interest

oncology and immunology