Héctor G. Palmer’s Stem Cells & Cancer Group studies the mechanisms that enable tumors to persist by evading effective treatments and progressing to advanced stages of disease.
We study the mechanisms underlying the persistence of cancer cells that enable tumors to evade effective therapies and progress to advanced stages of disease.
Using multi-omics approaches we aim to unravel unexpected alterations linked to tumor and single cell phenotypes. Combining gene editing (CRISPR/Cas) with classical signaling biochemistry in cancer cell lines as well as genetically modified mice, patient-derived organoids (PDO) and xenografts (PDX), our group focuses on the functional relevance of these newly identified alterations in patients’ response to treatment.
We participate in a global and multidisciplinary task force incorporating medical oncologists, surgeons, radiologists, and nurses. We work closely together to rapidly translate laboratory results to the clinic.
Main research lines include:
Tumor cell dormancy
The study of the intriguing biology of cancer cell dormancy as a driver of chemoresistance, formation of minimal residual disease, and relapse in patients.
We previously discovered a core epigenetic network that governs cancer cell dormancy (Puig et al. 2018)*, and are now investigating the function of TET2, DPPA3 (Cuesta et al. 2023), and other epigenetic and transcription factors in tumor cell dormancy.
Our group is making important progress in developing drugs that modulate drivers of cancer cell dormancy including TET2, as well as defining novel biomarkers to detect chemo-resistant dormant tumor cells. We founded ONIRIA Therapeutics as a spin-off company for the development of innovative therapies that modulate cell dormancy as a new strategy to fight cancer (https://www.oniriatherapeutics.com/).
Response to target-directed treatments
We work in close collaboration with oncologists and pharmaceutical companies to identify molecular mechanisms underlying sensitivity or resistance to drugs blocking Wnt/beta-catenin, Notch, PI3K/AKT, EGFR/LGR5, BRAF/MEK/ERK, CDKs or hippo oncogenic signals (Tenbaum et al. 2012; Puig et al. 2013; Capdevila et al. 2020; Lehal et al. 2020, Harmstron et al. 2021; Herpers et al. 2022 )**.
Based on our discoveries, we are designing new prescreening tests for the genetic-guided selection of patients for possible enrolment in clinical trials. Importantly, our findings are helping to define new rational drug combinations to treat cancer patients with progressive disease that will be evaluated in new academic clinical trials.
Advanced preclinical cancer models
We are expanding and characterizing our PDX collection (colorectal cancer, neuroendocrine cancer, and peritoneal pseudomyxoma), and optimizing their use in evaluating drug efficacy and metastasis by orthotopic injection and live imaging (positron emission tomography and computed tomography, and echography).
Lastly, we are developing ambitious projects through our participation in the EuroPDX, PERSIST-SEQ, CRCelerate, and PMP Accelerate European Consortia for studying cancer resistance and novel preclinical modelling.
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* Puig I, Tenbaum SP, Chicote I, Arqués O, Martínez-Quintanilla J, Cuesta-Borrás E, Ramírez L, Gonzalo P, Soto A, Aguilar S, Eguizabal C, Caratù G, Prat A, Argilés G, Landolfi S, Casanovas O, Serra V, Villanueva A, Arroyo AG, Terracciano L, Nuciforo P, Seoane J, Recio JA, Vivancos A, Dienstmann R, Tabernero J, Palmer HG. TET2 controls chemoresistant slowcycling cancer cell survival and tumor recurrence. J Clin Invest. 2018 Aug 31;128(9):3887-3905.
** Tenbaum SP, Ordóñez-Morán P, Puig I, Chicote I, Arqués O, Landolfi S, Fernández Y, Herance JR, Gispert JD, Mendizabal L, Aguilar S, Ramón y Cajal S, Schwartz S Jr, Vivancos A, Espín E, Rojas S, Baselga J, Tabernero J, Muñoz A, Palmer HG. β-catenin confers resistance to PI3K and AKT inhibitors and subverts FOXO3a to promote metastasis in colon cancer. Nat Med. 2012 Jun;18(6):892-901.
Puig I, Chicote I, Tenbaum SP, Arqués O, Herance JR, Gispert JD, Jimenez J, Landolfi S, Caci K, Allende H, Mendizabal L, Moreno D, Charco R, Espín E, Prat A, Elez ME, Argilés G, Vivancos A, Tabernero J, Rojas S, Palmer HG. A personalized preclinical model to evaluate the metastatic potential of patient-derived colon cancer initiating cells. Clin Cancer Res. 2013 Dec 15;19(24):6787-801.
Capdevila J, Arqués O, Hernández Mora JR, Matito J, Caratù G, Mancuso FM, Landolfi S, Barriuso J, Jimenez-Fonseca P, Lopez Lopez C, Garcia-Carbonero R, Hernando J, Matos I, Paolo N, Hernández-Losa J, Esteller M, Martínez-Cardús A, Tabernero J, Vivancos A, Palmer HG. Epigenetic EGFR Gene Repression Confers Sensitivity to Therapeutic BRAFV600E Blockade in Colon Neuroendocrine Carcinomas. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Feb 15;26(4):902-909.
- Study the role of epigenetic factors governing tumor cell dormancy in chemoresistance, minimal residual disease, relapse, dissemination and metastasis.
- Support ONIRIA Therapeutics spin-off company for the development of novel therapies that modulate cell dormancy as a new strategy to combat cancer.
- Develop small molecule modulators of cancer cell dormancy to block cancer progression.
- Unveil the mechanisms of response to therapies targeting the EGFR, BRAF, MEK, ERK, LGR5, Wnt, PARP or Hippo pathways.
- Refine and expand our collection of patient-derived xenograft (PDX) and advanced cancer models, and develop live imaging techniques.
Figure: Chemoresistant dormant tumor cells (green nuclei) hide within hypoxic niches (red) in growing carcinomas.
Group Leader
Héctor G. Palmer
Senior Researchers
Isabel Puig
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Jordi Martínez-Quintanilla
Belén Elguero
Lorena Ramirez
Oriol Arqués
David Aguilar
Phd Students
Candida Salvans Gorjón
Peijin Jiang
Alex Mur
Technicians
Anna Maria Alcántara
Laia Cabellos
Debora Cabot
Irene Chicote
Raquel Flores
Jordi Vergés San Jaime
Bioinformatican
Gilles Flamen
Most Relevant Scientific Publications
- Cuesta-Borràs E, Salvans C, Arqués O, Chicote I, Ramírez L, Cabellos L, Martínez-Quintanilla J, Mur-Espinosa A, García-Álvarez A, Hernando J, Tejedor JR, Mirallas O, Élez E, Fraga MF, Tabernero J, Nuciforo P, Capdevila J, Palmer HG, Puig I. DPPA3-HIF1α axis controls colorectal cancer chemoresistance by imposing a slow cell-cycle phenotype. Cell Rep. 2023 Aug 29;42(8):112927.
- Puig I, Chicote I, Pálmer HG. Identifying Cell Differentiation in Colorectal Cancer. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2650:227-233.
- Martini G, Belli V, Napolitano S, Ciaramella V, Ciardiello D, Belli A, Izzo F, Avallone A, Selvaggi F, Menegon Tasselli F, Santaniello W, Franco R, Puig I, Ramirez L, Chicote I, Mancuso F, Caratu G, Serres X, Fasani R, Jimenez J, Ros J, Baraibar I, Mulet N, Della Corte CM, Troiani T, Vivancos A, Dienstmann R, Elez E, Palmer HG, Tabernero J, Martinelli E, Ciardiello F, Argilés G. Establishment of patient-derived tumor organoids to functionally inform treatment decisions in metastatic colorectal cancer. ESMO Open. 2023 Jun;8(3):101198.
- Chicote I, Martínez-Quintanilla J, Cámara JA, Palmer HG. Orthotopic Implantation of Patient-Derived Cancer Cells in Mice Recapitulates Advanced Colorectal Cancer. J Vis Exp. 2023 Feb 10;(192).
- Martínez-Sabadell A, Morancho B, Rius Ruiz I, Román Alonso M, Ovejero Romero P, Escorihuela M, Chicote I, Palmer HG, Nonell L, Alemany-Chavarria M, Klein C, Bacac M, Arribas J, Arenas EJ. The target antigen determines the mechanism of acquired resistance to T cell-based therapies. Cell Rep. 2022 Oct 18;41(3):111430.
- Puig I, Palmer HG. A Label Retaining System to Capture Slow-Cycling Cancer Cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2535:85-92.
- Herpers B, Eppink B, James MI, Cortina C, Cañellas-Socias A, Boj SF, Hernando-Momblona X, Glodzik D, Roovers RC, van de Wetering M, Bartelink-Clements C, Zondag-van der Zande V, Mateos JG, Yan K, Salinaro L, Basmeleh A, Fatrai S, Maussang D, Lammerts van Bueren JJ, Chicote I, Serna G, Cabellos L, Ramírez L, Nuciforo P, Salazar R, Santos C, Villanueva A, Stephan-Otto Attolini C, Sancho E, Palmer HG, Tabernero J, Stratton MR, de Kruif J, Logtenberg T, Clevers H, Price LS, Vries RGJ, Batlle E, Throsby M. Functional patient-derived organoid screenings identify MCLA-158 as a therapeutic EGFR × LGR5 bispecific antibody with efficacy in epithelial tumors. Nat Cancer. 2022 Apr;3(4):418-436.
- Woo XY, Giordano J, Srivastava A, Zhao ZM, Lloyd MW, de Bruijn R, Suh YS, Patidar R, Chen L, Scherer S, Bailey MH, Yang CH, Cortes-Sanchez E, Xi Y, Wang J, Wickramasinghe J, Kossenkov AV, Rebecca VW, Sun H, Mashl RJ, Davies SR, Jeon R, Frech C, Randjelovic J, Rosains J, Galimi F, Bertotti A, Lafferty A, O’Farrell AC, Modave E, Lambrechts D, Ter Brugge P, Serra V, Marangoni E, El Botty R, Kim H, Kim JI, Yang HK, Lee C, Dean DA 2nd, Davis-Dusenbery B, Evrard YA, Doroshow JH, Welm AL, Welm BE, Lewis MT, Fang B, Roth JA, Meric-Bernstam F, Herlyn M, Davies MA, Ding L, Li S, Govindan R, Isella C, Moscow JA, Trusolino L, Byrne AT, Jonkers J, Bult CJ, Medico E, Chuang JH; PDXNET Consortium; EurOPDX Consortium. Conservation of copy number profiles during engraftment and passaging of patient-derived cancer xenografts. Nat Genet. 2021 Jan;53(1):86-99.
- Harmston N, Lim JYS, Arqués O, Palmer HG, Petretto E, Virshup DM, Madan B. Widespread Repression of Gene Expression in Cancer by a Wnt/β-Catenin/MAPK Pathway. Cancer Res. 2021 Jan 15;81(2):464-475.
- Bruun J, Kryeziu K, Eide PW, Moosavi SH, Eilertsen IA, Langerud J, Røsok B, Totland MZ, Brunsell TH, Pellinen T, Saarela J, Bergsland CH, Palmer HG, Brudvik KW, Guren T, Dienstmann R, Guren MG, Nesbakken A, Bjørnbeth BA, Sveen A, Lothe RA. Patient-Derived Organoids from Multiple Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases Reveal Moderate Intrapatient Pharmacotranscriptomic Heterogeneity. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Aug 1;26(15):4107-4119.
- Capdevila J, Arqués O, Hernández Mora JR, Matito J, Caratù G, Mancuso FM, Landolfi S, Barriuso J, Jimenez-Fonseca P, Lopez Lopez C, Garcia-Carbonero R, Hernando J, Matos I, Nuciforo P, Hernández-Losa J, Esteller M, Martínez-Cardús A, Tabernero J, Vivancos A, Palmer HG. Epigenetic EGFR Gene Repression Confers Sensitivity to Therapeutic BRAFV600E Blockade in Colon Neuroendocrine Carcinomas. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Feb 15;26(4):902-909. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-1266. Epub 2019 Oct 31.
- Capdevila J, Matos I, Mancuso FM, Iglesias C, Nuciforo P, Zafon C, Palmer HG, Ogbah Z, Muiños L, Hernando J, Villacampa G, Peña CE, Tabernero J, Brose MS, Schlumberger M, Vivancos A. Identification of Expression Profiles Defining Distinct Prognostic Subsets of Radioactive-Iodine Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer from the DECISION Trial. Mol Cancer Ther. 2020 Jan;19(1):312-317. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-19-0211. Epub 2019 Sep 20.
- Selenica P, Raj N, Kumar R, Brown DN, Arqués O, Reidy D, Klimstra D, Snuderl M, Serrano J, Palmer HG, Weigelt B, Reis-Filho JS, Scaltriti M. Solid pseudopapillary neoplasms of the pancreas are dependent on the Wnt pathway. Mol Oncol. 2019 Aug;13(8):1684-1692. doi: 10.1002/1878-0261.12490. Epub 2019 Jul 3.
- Puig I, Tenbaum SP, Chicote I, Arqués O, Martínez-Quintanilla J, Cuesta-Borrás E, Ramírez L, Gonzalo P, Soto A, Aguilar S, Eguizabal C, Caratù G, Prat A, Argilés G, Landolfi S, Casanovas O, Serra V, Villanueva A, Arroyo AG, Terracciano L, Nuciforo P, Seoane J, Recio JA, Vivancos A, Dienstmann R, Tabernero J, Palmer HG. TET2 controls chemoresistant slow-cycling cancer cell survival and tumor recurrence. J Clin Invest. 2018 Aug 31;128(9):3887-3905.
- Sveen A, Bruun J, Eide PW, Eilertsen IA, Ramirez L, Murumägi A, Arjama M, Danielsen SA, Kryeziu K, Elez E, Tabernero J, Guinney J, Palmer HG, Nesbakken A, Kallioniemi O, Dienstmann R, Lothe RA. Colorectal Cancer Consensus Molecular Subtypes Translated to Preclinical Models Uncover Potentially Targetable Cancer Cell Dependencies. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Feb 15;24(4):794-806.
- Martinez-Marti A, Felip E, Matito J, Mereu E, Navarro A, Cedrés S, Pardo N, Martinez de Castro A, Remon J, Miquel JM, Guillaumet-Adkins A, Nadal E, Rodriguez-Esteban G, Arqués O, Fasani R, Nuciforo P, Heyn H, Villanueva A, Palmer HG, Vivancos A. Dual MET and ERBB inhibition overcomes intratumor plasticity in osimertinib-resistant-advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Ann Oncol. 2017 Oct 1;28(10):2451-2457.
- Byrne AT, Alférez DG, Amant F, Annibali D, Arribas J, Biankin AV, Bruna A, Budinská E, Caldas C, Chang DK, Clarke RB, Clevers H, Coukos G, Dangles-Marie V, Eckhardt SG, Gonzalez-Suarez E, Hermans E, Hidalgo M, Jarzabek MA, de Jong S, Jonkers J, Kemper K, Lanfrancone L, Mælandsmo GM, Marangoni E, Marine JC, Medico E, Norum JH, Palmer HG, Peeper DS, Pelicci PG, Piris-Gimenez A, Roman-Roman S, Rueda OM, Seoane J, Serra V, Soucek L, Vanhecke D, Villanueva A, Vinolo E, Bertotti A, Trusolino L. Interrogating open issues in cancer medicine with patient-derived xenografts. Nat Rev Cancer. 2017 Sep 15;17(10):632.
- Dienstmann R, Elez E, Argiles G, Matos I, Sanz-Garcia E, Ortiz C, Macarulla T, Capdevila J, Alsina M, Sauri T, Verdaguer H, Vilaro M, Ruiz-Pace F, Viaplana C, Garcia A, Landolfi S, Palmer HG, Nuciforo P, Rodon J, Vivancos A, Tabernero J. Analysis of mutant allele fractions in driver genes in colorectal cancer – biological and clinical insights. Mol Oncol. 2017 Sep;11(9):1263-1272.
- Arqués O, Chicote I, Puig I, Tenbaum SP, Argilés G, Dienstmann R, Fernández N, Caratù G, Matito J, Silberschmidt D, Rodon J, Landolfi S, Prat A, Espín E, Charco R, Nuciforo P, Vivancos A, Shao W, Tabernero J, Palmer HG. Tankyrase Inhibition Blocks Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway and Reverts Resistance to PI3K and AKT Inhibitors in the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2016 Feb 1;22(3):644-56.
- Barbáchano A, Fernández-Barral A, Pereira F, Segura MF, Ordóñez-Morán P, Carrillo-de Santa Pau E, González-Sancho JM, Hanniford D, Martínez N, Costales-Carrera A, Real FX, Palmer HG, Rojas JM, Hernando E, Muñoz A. SPROUTY-2 represses the epithelial phenotype of colon carcinoma cells via upregulation of ZEB1 mediated by ETS1 and miR-200/miR-150. Oncogene. 2016 Jun 9;35(23):2991-3003.
- Jubierre L, Soriano A, Planells-Ferrer L, París-Coderch L, Tenbaum SP, Romero OA, Moubarak RS, Almazán-Moga A, Molist C, Roma J, Navarro S, Noguera R, Sánchez-Céspedes M, Comella JX, Palmer HG, Sánchez de Toledo J, Gallego S, Segura MF. BRG1/SMARCA4 is essential for neuroblastoma cell viability through modulation of cell death and survival pathways. Oncogene. 2016 Sep 29;35(39):5179-90.
- Arqués O, Chicote I, Puig I, Tenbaum SP, Argiles G, Dienstmann R, Fernández N, Caratù G, Matito J, Silberschmidt D, Rodón J, Landolfi S, Prat A, Espín E, Charco R, Nuciforo P, Vivancos A, Shao W, Tabernero J, Pálmer HG. Tankyrase Inhibition Blocks Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway and Reverts Resistance to PI3K and AKT Inhibitors in the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer. Clin. Cancer Res. 2016 Feb; 22(3): 644-56
- García-García C, Rivas MA, Ibrahim YH, Calvo MT, Gris-Oliver A, Rodriguez O, Grueso J, Anton P, Guzman M, Aura C, Nuciforo P, Jessen K, Argiles G, Dienstmann R, Bertotti A, Trusolino L, Matito J, Vivancos A, Chicote I, Pálmer HG, Tabernero J, Scaltriti M, Baselga J, Serra V. MEK plus PI3K/mTORC1/2 Therapeutic Efficacy Is Impacted by TP53 Mutation in Preclinical Models of Colorectal Cancer. Clin. Cancer Res. 2015 Dec; 21(24): 5499-510
- Herrero A, Pinto A, Colón-Bolea P, Casar B, Jones M, Agudo-Ibáñez L, Vidal R, Tenbaum SP, Nuciforo P, Valdizán EM, Horváth Z, Orfi L, Pineda-Lucena A, Bony E, Keri G, Rivas G, Pazos A, Gozalbes R, Pálmer HG, Hurlstone A, Crespo P. Small Molecule Inhibition of ERK Dimerization Prevents Tumorigenesis by RAS-ERK Pathway Oncogenes. Cancer Cell 2015 Aug; 28(2): 170-82
- Prat A, Adamo B, Fan C, Peg V, Vidal M, Galván P, Vivancos A, Nuciforo P, Pálmer HG, Dawood S, Rodón J, Cajal SR, Campo JM, Felip E, Tabernero J, Cortes J. ERRATUM: Genomic Analyses across Six Cancer Types Identify Basal-like Breast Cancer as a Unique Molecular Entity. Sci Rep 2015; 5: 8179
- Ordóñez-Morán P, Irmisch A, Barbáchano A, Chicote I, Tenbaum S, Landolfi S, Tabernero J, Huelsken J, Muñoz A, Pálmer HG. SPROUTY2 is a β-catenin and FOXO3a target gene indicative of poor prognosis in colon cancer. Oncogene 2014 Apr; 33(15): 1975-85
- Anjos-Afonso F, Currie E, Pálmer HG, Foster KE, Taussig DC, Bonnet D. CD34(-) cells at the apex of the human hematopoietic stem cell hierarchy have distinctive cellular and molecular signatures. Cell Stem Cell 2013 Aug; 13(2): 161-74
- Prat A, Adamo B, Fan C, Peg V, Vidal M, Galván P, Vivancos A, Nuciforo P, Pálmer HG, Dawood S, Rodón J, Cajal SR, Ramón y Cajal S, del Campo JM, Ramony Cajal S, Felip E, Tabernero J, Cortes J. Genomic analyses across six cancer types identify basal-like breast cancer as a unique molecular entity. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3544
- Puig I, Chicote I, Tenbaum SP, Arqués O, Herance JR, Gispert JD, Jimenez J, Landolfi S, Caci K, Allende H, Mendizabal L, Moreno D, Charco R, Espín E, Prat A, Elez ME, Argiles G, Vivancos A, Tabernero J, Rojas S, Pálmer HG. A personalized preclinical model to evaluate the metastatic potential of patient-derived colon cancer initiating cells. Clin. Cancer Res. 2013 Dec; 19(24): 6787-801
All publications
- Cuesta-Borràs E, Salvans C, Arqués O, Chicote I, Ramírez L, Cabellos L, Martínez-Quintanilla J, Mur-Espinosa A, García-Álvarez A, Hernando J, Tejedor JR, Mirallas O, Élez E, Fraga MF, Tabernero J, Nuciforo P, Capdevila J, Palmer HG, Puig I. DPPA3-HIF1α axis controls colorectal cancer chemoresistance by imposing a slow cell-cycle phenotype. Cell Rep. 2023 Aug 29;42(8):112927.
- Puig I, Chicote I, Palmer HG. Identifying Cell Differentiation in Colorectal Cancer. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2650:227-233.
- Martini G, Belli V, Napolitano S, Ciaramella V, Ciardiello D, Belli A, Izzo F, Avallone A, Selvaggi F, Menegon Tasselli F, Santaniello W, Franco R, Puig I, Ramirez L, Chicote I, Mancuso F, Caratu G, Serres X, Fasani R, Jimenez J, Ros J, Baraibar I, Mulet N, Della Corte CM, Troiani T, Vivancos A, Dienstmann R, Elez E, Palmer HG, Tabernero J, Martinelli E, Ciardiello F, Argilés G. Establishment of patient-derived tumor organoids to functionally inform treatment decisions in metastatic colorectal cancer. ESMO Open. 2023 Jun;8(3):101198.
- Chicote I, Martínez-Quintanilla J, Cámara JA, Palmer HG. Orthotopic Implantation of Patient-Derived Cancer Cells in Mice Recapitulates Advanced Colorectal Cancer. J Vis Exp. 2023 Feb 10;(192).
- Martínez-Sabadell A, Morancho B, Rius Ruiz I, Román Alonso M, Ovejero Romero P, Escorihuela M, Chicote I, Palmer HG, Nonell L, Alemany-Chavarria M, Klein C, Bacac M, Arribas J, Arenas EJ. The target antigen determines the mechanism of acquired resistance to T cell-based therapies. Cell Rep. 2022 Oct 18;41(3):111430.
- Puig I, Palmer HG. A Label Retaining System to Capture Slow-Cycling Cancer Cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2535:85-92.
- Herpers B, Eppink B, James MI, Cortina C, Cañellas-Socias A, Boj SF, Hernando-Momblona X, Glodzik D, Roovers RC, van de Wetering M, Bartelink-Clements C, Zondag-van der Zande V, Mateos JG, Yan K, Salinaro L, Basmeleh A, Fatrai S, Maussang D, Lammerts van Bueren JJ, Chicote I, Serna G, Cabellos L, Ramírez L, Nuciforo P, Salazar R, Santos C, Villanueva A, Stephan-Otto Attolini C, Sancho E, Palmer HG, Tabernero J, Stratton MR, de Kruif J, Logtenberg T, Clevers H, Price LS, Vries RGJ, Batlle E, Throsby M. Functional patient-derived organoid screenings identify MCLA-158 as a therapeutic EGFR × LGR5 bispecific antibody with efficacy in epithelial tumors. Nat Cancer. 2022 Apr;3(4):418-436.
- Woo XY, Giordano J, Srivastava A, Zhao ZM, Lloyd MW, de Bruijn R, Suh YS, Patidar R, Chen L, Scherer S, Bailey MH, Yang CH, Cortes-Sanchez E, Xi Y, Wang J, Wickramasinghe J, Kossenkov AV, Rebecca VW, Sun H, Mashl RJ, Davies SR, Jeon R, Frech C, Randjelovic J, Rosains J, Galimi F, Bertotti A, Lafferty A, O’Farrell AC, Modave E, Lambrechts D, Ter Brugge P, Serra V, Marangoni E, El Botty R, Kim H, Kim JI, Yang HK, Lee C, Dean DA 2nd, Davis-Dusenbery B, Evrard YA, Doroshow JH, Welm AL, Welm BE, Lewis MT, Fang B, Roth JA, Meric-Bernstam F, Herlyn M, Davies MA, Ding L, Li S, Govindan R, Isella C, Moscow JA, Trusolino L, Byrne AT, Jonkers J, Bult CJ, Medico E, Chuang JH; PDXNET Consortium; EurOPDX Consortium. Conservation of copy number profiles during engraftment and passaging of patient-derived cancer xenografts. Nat Genet. 2021 Jan;53(1):86-99.
- Harmston N, Lim JYS, Arqués O, Palmer HG, Petretto E, Virshup DM, Madan B. Widespread Repression of Gene Expression in Cancer by a Wnt/β-Catenin/MAPK Pathway. Cancer Res. 2021 Jan 15;81(2):464-475.
- Capdevila J, Arqués O, Hernández Mora JR, Matito J, Caratù G, Mancuso FM, Landolfi S, Barriuso J, Jimenez-Fonseca P, Lopez Lopez C, Garcia-Carbonero R, Hernando J, Matos I, Paolo N, Hernández-Losa J, Esteller M, Martínez-Cardús A, Tabernero J, Vivancos A, Palmer HG. Epigenetic EGFR Gene Repression Confers Sensitivity to Therapeutic BRAFV600E Blockade in Colon Neuroendocrine Carcinomas.Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Feb 15;26(4):902-909. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-1266. Epub 2019 Oct 31.
- Capdevila J, Matos I, Mancuso FM, Iglesias C, Nuciforo P, Zafon C, Palmer HG, Ogbah Z, Muiños L, Hernando J, Villacampa G, Peña CE, Tabernero J, Brose MS, Schlumberger M, Vivancos A. Identification of Expression Profiles Defining Distinct Prognostic Subsets of Radioactive-Iodine Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer from the DECISION Trial.Mol Cancer Ther. 2020 Jan;19(1):312-317. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-19-0211. Epub 2019 Sep 20.
- Selenica P, Raj N, Kumar R, Brown DN, Arqués O, Reidy D, Klimstra D, Snuderl M, Serrano J, Palmer HG, Weigelt B, Reis-Filho JS, Scaltriti M. Solid pseudopapillary neoplasms of the pancreas are dependent on the Wnt pathway.Mol Oncol. 2019 Aug;13(8):1684-1692. doi: 10.1002/1878-0261.12490. Epub 2019 Jul 3.
- Sveen A, Bruun J, Eide PW, Eilertsen IA, Ramirez L, Murumägi A, Arjama M, Danielsen SA, Kryeziu K, Elez E, Tabernero J, Guinney J, Palmer HG, Nesbakken A, Kallioniemi O, Dienstmann R, Lothe RA. Colorectal Cancer Consensus Molecular Subtypes Translated to Preclinical Models Uncover Potentially Targetable Cancer Cell Dependencies. Clin Cancer Res. Epub 2017 Dec 14.
- Martinez-Marti A, Felip E, Matito J, Mereu E, Navarro A, Cedrés S, Pardo N, Martinez de Castro A, Remon J, Miquel JM, Guillaumet-Adkins A, Nadal E, Rodriguez-Esteban G, Arqués O, Fasani R, Nuciforo P, Heyn H, Villanueva A, Palmer HG, Vivancos A. Dual MET and ERBB inhibition overcomes intratumor plasticity in osimertinib-resistant-advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Ann Oncol. 2017 Oct 1;28(10):2451-2457.
- Byrne AT, Alférez DG, Amant F, Annibali D, Arribas J, Biankin AV, Bruna A, Budinská E, Caldas C, Chang DK, Clarke RB, Clevers H, Coukos G, Dangles-Marie V, Eckhardt SG, Gonzalez-Suarez E, Hermans E, Hidalgo M, Jarzabek MA, de Jong S, Jonkers J, Kemper K, Lanfrancone L, Mælandsmo GM, Marangoni E, Marine JC, Medico E, Norum JH, Palmer HG, Peeper DS, Pelicci PG, Piris-Gimenez A, Roman-Roman S, Rueda OM, Seoane J, Serra V, Soucek L, Vanhecke D, Villanueva A, Vinolo E, Bertotti A, Trusolino L. Interrogating open issues in cancer medicine with patient-derived xenografts. Nat Rev Cancer. 2017 Sep 15;17(10):632.
- Dienstmann R, Elez E, Argiles G, Matos I, Sanz-Garcia E, Ortiz C, Macarulla T, Capdevila J, Alsina M, Sauri T, Verdaguer H, Vilaro M, Ruiz-Pace F, Viaplana C, Garcia A, Landolfi S, Palmer HG, Nuciforo P, Rodon J, Vivancos A, Tabernero J. Analysis of mutant allele fractions in driver genes in colorectal cancer – biological and clinical insights. Mol Oncol. 2017 Sep;11(9):1263-1272.
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- Barbáchano A, Fernández-Barral A, Pereira F, Segura MF, Ordóñez-Morán P, Carrillo-de Santa Pau E, González-Sancho JM, Hanniford D, Martínez N, Costales-Carrera A, Real FX, Palmer HG, Rojas JM, Hernando E, Muñoz A. SPROUTY-2 represses the epithelial phenotype of colon carcinoma cells via upregulation of ZEB1 mediated by ETS1 and miR-200/miR-150. Oncogene. 2016 Jun 9;35(23):2991-3003.
- Jubierre L, Soriano A, Planells-Ferrer L, París-Coderch L, Tenbaum SP, Romero OA, Moubarak RS, Almazán-Moga A, Molist C, Roma J, Navarro S, Noguera R, Sánchez-Céspedes M, Comella JX, Palmer HG, Sánchez de Toledo J, Gallego S, Segura MF. BRG1/SMARCA4 is essential for neuroblastoma cell viability through modulation of cell death and survival pathways. Oncogene. 2016 Sep 29;35(39):5179-90.
- Arqués O, Chicote I, Puig I, Tenbaum SP, Argiles G, Dienstmann R, Fernández N, Caratù G, Matito J, Silberschmidt D, Rodón J, Landolfi S, Prat A, Espín E, Charco R, Nuciforo P, Vivancos A, Shao W, Tabernero J, Pálmer HG. Tankyrase Inhibition Blocks Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway and Reverts Resistance to PI3K and AKT Inhibitors in the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer. Clin. Cancer Res. 2016 Feb; 22(3): 644-56
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- PERSIST-SEQ. Building a reproducible single-cell experimental workflow to capture tumour drug persistence. FINANCIAL ENTITY: IMI Program. Pharma Industry and UE (Horizon 2020-JTI-IMI2-2020-20-two-stage). Duration: 2021-2024. PI: Héctor G. Palmer.
- Targeting dormant tumor cells as a new strategy to fight cancer. PI20/00897. FINANCIAL ENTITY: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII). Duration. 2021-2023. PI: Héctor G. Palmer.
- First-in-class small drug activators of TET2 for the treatment of cancer FINANCIAL ENTITY: Fundación de la Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC). Duration: 2020-2021. PI: Héctor G. Palmer.
- Tumor microenvironment-derived factors in localized colon cancer: clinical impact and therapeutic implications. FINANCIAL ENTITY: Fundación de la Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC). Duration: 2020-2024. PI: Héctor G. Palmer (Coordinator: Andrés Cervantes).
- CaixaImpulse Validate. A novel approach to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of CAR cells. FINANCIAL ENTITY: Fundación Bancaria Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona. Duration: 2020-2021. PI: Carlos Galdeano.
- Accelerator Award. Pseudomyxoma peritonei: building a European multicentric cohort to accelerate new therapeutic perspectives. FINANCIAL ENTITY: Cancer Research UK (CRUK), Asociación Española contra el Cancer (AECC) & Associazione Italina per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC). Duration: 2019-2024. PI: Héctor G. Palmer. (Consortium Coordinator: Marcello Deraco).
- Accelerator Award. ACRCelerate: Colorectal Cancer Stratified Medicine Network. FINANCIAL ENTITY: Cancer Research UK (CRUK), Asociación Española contra el Cancer (AECC) & Associazione Italina per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC). Duration: 2018-2021. PI: Héctor G. Palmer. (Consortium Coordinator: Owen Sansom).
- EDIReX, EurOPDX Distributed Infrastructure for Research on patient-derived cancer Xenografts. #731105. FINANCIAL ENTITY: EU Horizon2020 Research and Innovation Program. Duration: 2018-2021. PI: Héctor G. Palmer. (Consortium Coordinator: Enzo Medico).
- FINANCIAL ENTITY: Fundación de la Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC). Duration: 2017-2021. PIs: Isabel Puig and Héctor G. Palmer
- ONIRIA: Mastering Cell Dormancy to Fight Cancer.
El presente proyecto está cofinanciado por el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional. Objetivo Temático: maximise the value of our drug candidates, ensure successful funding that will finance all the preclinical development and identify additional indications where our compounds could have therapeutic value.
- Drug-loaded nanobots for transmucosal delivery to mucinous tumours (MucOncoBots)Entidad Financiadora: European Research Council (ERC)Periodo de Ejecución: 01/10/2023 – 31/04/2025PI: Héctor G. Palmer
- Title: Development of TET2 activating drugs for the treatment of melanoma. Funding entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación – Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Ref: CPP2022- 009781. Duration: 01/11/2023 – 31/10/2026. Coordinator: Oniria Therapeutics S.L.. Other Partners: Fundació Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron – Institut de Recerca. PI VHIO: Héctor García Palmer
We have participated in the design of the BRAVE academic clinical trial that will start recruiting patients with BRAF-mutated colorectal cancer I 2024.
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