Albert Colomer, Nerea (Date of defense: 2021-01-18)
Tumor-stroma crosstalk is essential for PDAC formation. Therefore, the stroma, and specifically the carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), are the target of therapeutic alternatives to treat highly ...
Coll San Martín, Laia (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
Cancer was reported as the second leading cause of death in 2018 by the World Health Organisation. Cancer is defined as the set of diseases that proceeds in multiple phases generating a transformation ...
Aparicio García, María (Date of defense: 2020-12-09)
[eng] The arrival of antiangiogenic therapies represented a huge advance in the treatment of different tumors, such as renal carcinoma. However, despite initial good results, some tumors were able to ...
Aragó Belenguer, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-06-30)
[spa] La reprogramación metabólica es uno de los procesos que caracterizan el cancer. Estos cambios en el metabolismo de las células tumorales no solo permiten a las células obtener los metabolitos ...
Prieto Durán, Iván (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)
[spa] A día de hoy, el cáncer es la segunda causa de mortalidad en el ser humano y la mayoría de las muertes son producidas por la metástasis. Aunque se han postulado varias hipótesis para explicar ...
Cañellas Socias, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) kills around 700,000 people worldwide every year. The majority of these deaths are the result of dissemination of the disease to foreign organs. Despite undergoing curative ...
Font Díaz, Joan (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Nuclear receptors are a superfamily of ligand-dependent transcription factors that are involved in numerous biological processes in homeostasis and disease. Liver X receptors (LXRs) are members of the ...
Alonso Martínez de Marañón, Josune (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
[spa] La terapia actual contra la mayoría de los cánceres está basada en el uso de agentes que dañan el ADN, como la quimioterapia o la radioterapia, que erradican las células tumorales proliferantes. ...
Montal Roura, Robert (Date of defense: 2020-10-07)
[spa] El cáncer hepatobiliar (incluye principalmente el carcinoma hepatocelular [HCC] y el cáncer del tracto biliar [BTC]) representa la tercera causa de muerte relacionada con cáncer en todo el mundo ...
Serra Camprubí, Queralt (Date of defense: 2023-07-27)
[eng] The field of cancer treatment has shifted towards personalized medicine, driven by advancements in understanding molecular and genetic abnormalities and identifying specific targets within cancer ...