Matilde Lleonart Pajarin I am group leader of "Biomedical Research in Cancer Stem Cells" at VHIR. I arrived at VHIR 21 years ago after having worked in different prestigious international research centers: World Health Organization (WHO) at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (Lyon, France), the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research (WIBR) in London and the Queen´s Mary University of London. Instituciones de las que forman parte Jefe de grupo Cáncer de cabeza y cuello: Investigación biomédica en células madre tumorales Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca LinkedIn Twitter Orcid Matilde Lleonart Pajarin LinkedIn Twitter Orcid Instituciones de las que forman parte Jefe de grupo Cáncer de cabeza y cuello: Investigación biomédica en células madre tumorales Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca I am group leader of "Biomedical Research in Cancer Stem Cells" at VHIR. I arrived at VHIR 21 years ago after having worked in different prestigious international research centers: World Health Organization (WHO) at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (Lyon, France), the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research (WIBR) in London and the Queen´s Mary University of London.
My Research Group was recognized as an Emerging Research Group in 2009 by the Generalitat de Catalunya and later in 2014 as a Consolidated Research Group. Throughout my career I have been involved in cancer research from a more molecular point of view correlating key mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes with anatomical, pathological and clinical features of patients' tumors and also through cell culture studies to determine important key cell signaling pathways in tumorigenesis. Currently, the main lines of research of my Research Group focus on the identification and characterization of biological mechanisms in resistant cancer cells, including cancer stem cells, to unravel the pathways responsible for their resistance in breast, lung and head and neck cancer models. In addition, we are particularly focused on identifying molecular targets in resistant cancer cells and cancer stem cells affecting particularly aggressive tumors. The aim is to attack them pharmacologically in order to propose new cancer therapies: new drugs and/or drug combinations to combat resistant tumors in mouse models.
Líneas de investigación Study of new genes involved in proliferation Searching for new proliferative genes/tumor suppressor genes is being performed at our laboratory by carring out genetic screens. By the use of retroviral vectors as carriers of a cDNA libraries (formed by mRNA from murine embryonic stem cells), primary cells are infected and screening for those clones able to bypass senescence are selected for further characterization. The marked morphological heterogeneity observed in several tumorigenic process, support the hypothesis that several cancers have their origin in a stem cell. It is believed that genes expressed by embryonic stem cells, may play an important role in the tumorigenic mechanism.This project unravels the effect of immortal genes existing in embryonic stem cells, when are forced to be expressed in primary and thereby mortal cells. These immortal genes are future candidate markers in tumors with potential prognosis value. The novel genes discovered, are being analyzed in the biopsies from patients with different kinds of tumors collected at the Pathology Department of the Vall d´Hebrón Hospital. IP: Matilde Lleonart Pajarin Paginación Primera página « Página anterior ‹ Página 1 Página actual 2 Proyectos NANORESCAN IP: Matilde Lleonart Pajarin Colaboradores: Katerin Ingrid Rojas Laimito, Irene Braña Garcia, David Virós Porcuna, Josep Castellví Vives, Marina Bataller Fernández, Juan Fernando Fuentes Cabrera, Juan Fernando Fuentes Cabrera Entidad financiadora: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Financiación: 318750 Referencia: AC24/00057 Duración: 01/01/2025 - 31/12/2027 NANORESCAN: Nanocapsules combining novel drugs with conventional chemotherapy to cure resistant cancers IP: Matilde Lleonart Pajarin Colaboradores: - Entidad financiadora: EUROPEAN COMMISSION Financiación: 0.01 Referencia: EC/NANOTECMEC/2024/LLEONART Duración: - Beca VHIR PhD IP: Matilde Lleonart Pajarin Colaboradores: Laia Perez Lasarte, Marina Bataller Fernández Entidad financiadora: Fundació Institut de Recerca HUVH Financiación: 69188.74 Referencia: VPHD/MARINA_B Duración: 01/04/2023 - 31/03/2026 New compounds targeting head and neck cancer as Trojan horses against chemoresistant cells IP: Matilde Lleonart Pajarin Colaboradores: Yoelsis Garcia Mayea, Marina Bataller Fernández, Gabriela Isabel Fuentes Llopis Entidad financiadora: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca Financiación: 20000 Referencia: 2023 LLAV 00102 Duración: 01/02/2024 - 31/07/2024 Paginación Primera página « Página anterior ‹ Página 1 Página actual 2 Página 3 Página 4 Página 5 … Siguiente página › Última página »
