Arias Badia, Marcel (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
Oncolytic virotherapy with Adenoviruses has regained importance in the past years with the appearance of fresh and promising strategies to deal with tumors. Among the major limitations of this therapy ...
Montero Martín, Sara (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
Despite the latest advances in early diagnosis and increased resources employed to develop new therapeutic options, effective control of cancer disease remains a challenge. In fact, cancer is the second ...
Balcells Nadal, Cristina (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)
Metastasis and drug resistance represent the two main causes of therapeutic failure in oncology. In the present dissertation, the interplay between them has been interrogated using metabolomics, systems ...
Arroba Hidalgo, Ester (Date of defense: 2021-02-10)
The human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) is a non-classic MHC class I molecule. It is called “non-classic” because it differs from classic MHC class I molecules due to its very low amount of polymorphism ...
Riaño Canalias, Ferran (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
Ribosome biogenesis is one of the most energy consuming anabolic processes in a cell, required for the generation of the translational machinery to grow and proliferate. Moreover, this process necessitates ...
Gutierrez Prat, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-10-03)
Cells often need to respond to damaging internal and external stimuli. One of the pathways that is frequently activated by stress stimuli involves activation of the kinase p38alpha, which can phosphorylate ...
Sostoa Pomés, Jana de (Date of defense: 2019-05-31)
Oncolytic virus (OV)-based therapies have an emerging role in the treatment of solid tumors, involving both direct cell lysis and immunogenic cell death. Nonetheless, tumor- associated stroma limits the ...
Félez Sánchez-Ocaña, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-06-29)
Papillomaviruses (PVs) are a numerous family of small dsDNA viruses infecting virtually all mammals. PVs cause infections without triggering a strong immune response, and natural infection provides ...
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 ...
Bernat Peguera, Adrià (Date of defense: 2019-09-20)
La mayoría de los carcinomas escamosos de piel (cSCCs) se tratan con éxito mediante escisión quirúrgica. Sin embargo, el 5-8% de los casos desarrollan recurrencias, las cuales están asociadas a un ...