Our MSc Students selected to attend the International ICI-CIVIS Summer School in Immuno-Oncology 2021, Marseille - France (July 5-9, 2021)
- BSRC Fleming
- Jul 7, 2021
- 2 min read
Congratulations to our MSc Students Maria MARTINOU, Georgia ANTONOPOULOU and Charikleia KONSTANTAKOPOULOU (Class 2020, 1st year) who have been selected among the top European MSc and PhD Students to attend in-person the prestigious Institut Cancer et Immunologie (ICI) - CIVIS Summer School in Immuno-Oncology, edition 2021, on the theme of “Single Cell Approaches in Tumor and Immune Cell Heterogeneity”, held between July 5 & July 9, 2021 at the Luminy campus in Marseille, France.
Each of them were also awarded an international scholarship funded through the CIVIS fund and provided to outstanding graduate students.


The ICI Summer School, A program of excellence led by internationally renowned speakers, is designed for international PhD and Master's students in life sciences, medicine, and computer science who are seeking to further their knowledge and skills in immuno-oncology research using the latest analytical methods. The Summer School is presenting recent technological breakthroughs that unravel the complexities of biological systems at the single-cell level, opening an avenue for the understanding of tumor and immune cell heterogeneity and next generation discovery of biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
CIVIS is a European Civic University formed by the alliance of nine leading research higher education institutions across Europe: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aix-Marseille Université, Universitatea din București, Université libre de Bruxelles, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Sapienza Università di Roma, Stockholm University and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the University of Glasgow. It brings together a community of more than 384,000 students and 55,000 staff members including 30,000 academics and researchers.