Olivier De Wever's Biography

Olivier De Wever, Professor, Ghent University

Olivier De Wever is currently a Senior Researcher and an Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research at the University Hospital of Ghent (Belgium). He graduated in Pharmacy (great distinction) by the University of Ghent in 1999 and developed his PhD research in the Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research defining “A road map for cancer invasion: implication of myofibroblasts and other factors”, under the supervision of Marc Mareel and Marc Bracke (2004). He performed his PostDoctoral Research in the framework of the European project METABRE and supported by Ghent University Research Council and by Flanders Fund for Scientific Research. His work is being dedicated to understand the role of the tumour microenvironment, namely fibroblasts/myofibroblasts and adipocytes on cancer cell invasion and metastasis, dissecting the associated-molecular mechanisms. Olivier De Wever’s team is also expert on the role of extracellular vesicles on the cancer cells-microenvironment crosstalk. Besides the several prizes he already received, he is author of 105 publications in peer-reviewed A1 journals, 12 of which as first author and >20 as last author.