• Cancer-associated fibropalsts and response to anti-HER2 monoclonal antibodies in breast cancer 

  Guardia Valenzuela, Cristina, 1990- (Date of defense: 19-12-2019)

  HER2-positive breast cancer (BC) is an aggressive subtype of this disease. The development of anti-HER2 targeted therapies, particularly the monoclonal antibody (Mab) trastuzumab, significantly improved its otherwise poor ...
• Inequalities in health and health behaviours amongst couple and lone mothers : The influence of socioeconomic factors and social capital in Spain and Europe 

  Trujillo Alemán, Sara, 1985- (Date of defense: 20-12-2019)

  This PhD research has three main aims: first, to design a conceptual framework for studying health inequalities amongst women who are mothers; secondly, to describe inequalities in health and health behaviours between ...
• Highly accurate variant detection for identification of tumor mutations and mosaic variants 

  Muyas Remolar, Francesc, 1992- (Date of defense: 20-12-2019)

  The rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technologies pushed forward the fields of medical genomics and precision medicine, creating many new applications for diagnostics and clinical studies that require high ...
• A Computational toolkit to boost precision oncology with pharmacogenomics 

  Mateo Ramos, Lídia, 1989- (Date of defense: 18-12-2019)

  Durant la darrera dècada la seqüenciació massiva de pacients de cancer ha permés avançar de forma significativa el coneixement sobre les bases moleculars del càncer. Un cop assolit aquest primer pass, el repte que tenim ...
• Characterization of sexual commitment and the early steps of sexual development in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum 

  Llorà Batlle, Oriol, 1992- (Date of defense: 19-12-2019)

  Transmission of malaria requires that some parasites abandon asexual replication and develop into sexual stages termed gametocytes. The discovery of the transcription factor PfAP2-G as the master regulator of sexual ...

View more