At the ECVIM-CA Congress in Berlin, PhD candidate Kirsten van Bokhorst received the ESVE award for the best poster for her research on the pathology of canine adrenal incidentalomas. The Utrecht team was also well represented by Supita Sunpongsri, who presented her study on the cardiac effects of pheochromocytomas, and Marit van den Berg, who…

Kirsten van Bokhorst will defended her thesis: Pituitary and adrenocortical tumors in cats and dogs From clinical insights to surgical treatment and multimodal characterization on November 17th 2026

Freshly published: Marit van den Berg and colleagues present “Long-term culture of patient-derived pheochromocytoma organoids,” a proof-of-concept study establishing a novel model for pheochromocytoma research, in collaboration with Radboud UMC.

Kirsten van Bokhorst and colleagues published: Glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid production in hormonally silent adrenocortical tumor tissue in dogs. Congratulations!

Congrats to Marit van den Berg and colleagues on the publication: Prognostic Value of a Histopathological Scoring System and the Ki67 Proliferation Index in Dogs with Phaeochromocytoma in Veterinary and Comparative Oncology

Marit van den Berg and colleagues published in Endocrinology ” Canine Adrenomedullary and Pheochromocytoma Organoids: A Novel In Vitro Model. Congrats on this publication.

Hot off the press: Marit van den Berg and Sara Galac contributed to a newly published study in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine on long-term survival in dogs with pheochromocytoma.

Congrats to Maurice Zandvliet and colleagues on their paper: Cancer-testis antigen expression in canine melanoma and healthy tissue. They show that dogs express cancer-testis antigens (CTAs), similar to humans, that can serve as a target for immunotherapy in dogs.

Congrats for Elpetra and team for the publication: In vivo effects of a GHR synthesis inhibitor during prolonged treatment in dogs, in Pharmaceuticals.

The Oncology group joined the latest VSD on May 16th. VSD is an annual Veterinary Science Day where the entire Veterinary Medicine faculty of Utrecht University comes together and presents their research. Marit van den Berg was selected for a presentation: Prognostic value of the Ki67 proliferation index and a histopathological scoring system in dogs…