Niek Brouwer

PhD student in computational cancer biology

I build models and tools to understand how cancer evolves and responds to treatment.

Publications Talks Projects Links

Publications

Drug Response Prediction Provides a Biologically Relevant Benchmark for Perturbation Response Models

Niek Brouwer, Martin Damyanov, Jonas Argelo, Daniël J. Vis, Marcel J. T. Reinders, Lodewyk F. A. Wessels

under review, 2026.

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Talks

Predicting Drug Sensitivity with Perturbation Response Models

Oncode Institute / Annual Meeting

Amersfoort, March 2026.

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Assessing Drug Response of Single Cells Through Gene Expression Traits

scNL

Nijmegen, April 2025.

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Assessing Drug Response of Single Cells Through Gene Expression Traits

IRB / AI in Drug Discovery and Biomedicine

Barcelona, March 2025.

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Projects

Research & professional

Scout

Application that retrieves new papers on manually defined topics. Sends weekly updates to your e-mail.

GitHub Docs

Tidysets [Under development]

Robust framework to preprocess and unify datasets I use in my research.

GitHub

Personal

Kliek

Kliek is a personal recipe book that allows you to save recipes from any source.

GitHub

TaskFlow

TaskFlow is a tool for daily task planning build on top of my Obsidian vault.

GitHub

Links

Things I find useful or inspiring: tools, blogs, and ideas. Lightweight and opinionated.

AlphaSignal (newsletter) — Daily email summary of latest AI news.
Google's Generative AI course — Elaborate course on generative AI. Free to follow.
Stratechery — Tech and strategy. Good for stepping out of the lab bubble.