da Rocha, Pedro Filipe Simões (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)
[eng] Treatment landscape in early-stage NSCLC is rapidly changing after approval of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings, respectively. However, biomarkers for patient selection, ...
Yoldi, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2018-10-23)
The discovery that RANK signaling mediates the protumorigenic role of progesterone in the mammary gland and its association with poor prognosis in breast cancer has opened the possibility of using RANKL ...
Aguilar Fadó, Esther (Date of defense: 2015-02-23)
Metastasis represents the most life-threatening aspect of tumorigenesis and is the leading cause of death by cancer. Intensive research in this field has shed light on some of the molecular strategies ...
Zuazo Gaztelu, Iratxe (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
Tumor progression is a complex conundrum of events that involve not only tumor cells, but also their surrounding microenvironment. Accounting to the natural dependency of tumors on angiogenesis, its ...
López Fauqued, Marta (Date of defense: 2010-06-22)
Malignant melanoma is the most lethal skin cancer with no effective therapeutic treatment in its metastatic stages. RAS and PI3K pathways have been shown to play a critical role in melanoma development ...
Rasti Zaghiyan, George (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
The Sirtuin family of NAD+-dependent enzymes plays a key role in the maintenance of genome integrity upon stress. Sirtuins coordinate the response to different forms of stress at different levels and ...
Domostegui Fernández, Ana (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)
The oncogene MYC is altered and its expression is deregulated in up to 70% of human cancers, including B cell neoplasms. Earlier studies in a mouse model of Eμ-MYC-driven B-cell lymphomas reported that ...
Méndiz Manero, Mª Victoria (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)
[eng] I have used the brain tumours that originate in Drosophila larvae upon depletion of the brain tumor (brat) gene as a model to study neoplastic malignant growth. I have used genetic analysis to ...
Meo Evoli, Nathalie (Date of defense: 2014-07-07)
The oncogenic properties of E2F1 have been traditionally associated with the role of the oncogene in proliferation, but during the last few years many other functions associated with this family of ...
De Mol, Eva (Date of defense: 2014-06-26)
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in men after lung cancer. Around 1.1 million men worldwide were diagnosed with PCa in 2012. PCa depends essentially on androgen stimulation for ...