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Cluster III

Cell Regulation and Tumor biology

Cancer remains a public health problem due to inadequate responses to its onset or later resistance of many different tumors to current therapeutic drugs. This cluster attempts to improve our understanding of recently emerged cellular regulation processes that contribute to cancer progression, unveiling new therapeutic targets and strategies. Based on our results we will study particular aspects of protein trafficking and signaling, cellular plasticity, and genetic and epigenetic regulation in different tumor contexts. We will also study antitumor immunity and immunotherapy strategies, which will help to unveil how tumor cells avoid being recognized as strange immunogenic entities.

Research Lines

Protein trafficking, signaling and cell plasticity in cancer

Study particular aspects of protein trafficking and signaling and cellular plasticity in different tumor contexts.

Genetics, epigenetics and cancer therapy

Key determinants of how chromatin organization and transcriptional control through specific chromatin modifications can underlie tumorigenesis when altered.

Antitumor immunity and Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy as a new standard of cancer care aiming to restore or boost antitumor immunity mediated by T cells.

Researchers

Alvaro Lladser, PhD

Alvaro Lladser, PhD

Director of the Immunoncology Lab

Principal Investigator

Alejandra Loyola, PhD

Alejandra Loyola, PhD

Director of the Epigenetics and Chromatin Lab

Principal Investigator

Alfonso Gonzalez, PhD

Alfonso Gonzalez, PhD

Centro de Biología Celular y Biomedicina CEBICEM

Principal Investigator

Vincenzo Borgna, PhD

Associate Researcher

Patricia Burgos, PhD

Associate Researcher

Hugo González, PhD

Associate Researcher

Daniela Sauma, PhD

Associate Researcher

Manuel Varas, PhD

Associate Researcher

Latest Publications Cluster III

April 24, 2025

Regulatory T cell depletion promotes myeloid cell activation and glioblastoma response to anti-PD1 and tumor-targeting antibodies
Regulatory T cell depletion promotes myeloid cell activation and glioblastoma response to anti-PD1 and tumor-targeting antibodies

April 4, 2025

Galectin-8 drives ERK-dependent mitochondrial fragmentation, perinuclear relocation and mitophagy, with metabolic adaptations for cell proliferation
Galectin-8 drives ERK-dependent mitochondrial fragmentation, perinuclear relocation and mitophagy, with metabolic adaptations for cell proliferation

January 8, 2025

Curcumin Improves Hippocampal Cell Bioenergetics, Redox and Inflammatory Markers, and Synaptic Proteins, Regulating Mitochondrial Calcium Homeostasis
Curcumin Improves Hippocampal Cell Bioenergetics, Redox and Inflammatory Markers, and Synaptic Proteins, Regulating Mitochondrial Calcium Homeostasis
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