
El Grup de Cèl·lules Mare i Càncer d’Héctor G. Palmer estudia els mecanismes que permeten que els tumors eludeixin els tractaments eficaços i progressin a estadis avançats.
Estudiem els mecanismes que permeten a les cèl·lules canceroses persistir, evadir les teràpies antitumorals i promoure la progressió de la malaltia. Integrant l’edició gènica (CRISPR/Cas) amb la bioquímica clàssica de senyalització, analitzem aquestes alteracions en línies cel·lulars de càncer, ratolins genèticament modificats, organoides derivats de pacients (PDOs) i xenoinnests (PDXs). El nostre objectiu és determinar el seu impacte funcional en la resposta al tractament i identificar noves dianes terapèutiques.
Participem en un grup de treball multidisciplinari que inclou oncòlegs mèdics, cirurgians, radiòlegs i personal d’infermeria per traslladar els descobriments de laboratori a aplicacions clíniques.
Principals línies de recerca
Latència de les cèl·lules tumorals
Estudiem la biologia de la latència cel·lular tumoral com a impulsora de la quimioresistència, la malaltia mínima residual i la recaiguda. Anteriorment vam descobrir una xarxa epigenètica central que regula la latència cel·lular tumoral (Puig et al. 2018), i actualment investiguem la funció de TET2, DPPA3 (Cuesta et al. 2023) i altres factors epigenètics i de transcripció en aquest procés.
El nostre grup està impulsant el desenvolupament de fàrmacs dirigits a moduladors de la latència tumoral, inclosos moduladors de TET2, i definint nous biomarcadors per a la detecció de cèl·lules tumorals latents resistents a la quimioteràpia.
Per accelerar la translació clínica, vam fundar ONIRIA Therapeutics, una spin-off del VHIO dedicada al desenvolupament de teràpies innovadores contra el càncer dirigides a la latència (https://www.oniriatherapeutics.com/).
Resposta a tractaments dirigits
Col·laborem amb oncòlegs i socis de la indústria farmacèutica per identificar mecanismes moleculars que determinen la sensibilitat o resistència a fàrmacs que bloquegen les vies de senyalització Wnt/beta-catenina, Notch, PI3K/AKT, EGFR/LGR5, BRAF/MEK/ERK, CDKs o Hippo (Tenbaum et al. 2012; Puig et al. 2013; Capdevila et al. 2020; Lehal et al. 2020; Harmstron et al. 2021; Herpers et al. 2022).
A partir dels nostres descobriments, estem dissenyant tests de preselecció per seleccionar pacients en assaigs clínics. De manera rellevant, les nostres troballes estan orientant combinacions racionals de fàrmacs per tractar pacients amb malaltia progressiva en assaigs clínics acadèmics.
Models preclínics avançats de càncer
Estem ampliant i optimitzant la nostra col·lecció de PDXs (càncer colorrectal, càncer neuroendocrí i pseudomixoma peritoneal) per avaluar l’eficàcia de fàrmacs i el potencial metastàtic mitjançant enfocaments d’injecció ortotòpica i imatge in vivo (tomografia per emissió de positrons, tomografia computada i ecografia).
La nostra feina està integrada en consorcis europeus de referència, com EuroPDX, PERSIST-SEQ, CRCelerate i PMP Accelerate, a través dels quals contribuïm a l’avenç dels estudis sobre resistència al càncer i models preclínics.
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Estudiar el paper dels factors epigenètics que regulen la latència cel·lular tumoral en la quimioresistència, la malaltia mínima residual, la recaiguda, la disseminació i la metàstasi.
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Donar suport a l’spin-off ONIRIA Therapeutics en el desenvolupament de noves teràpies que modulin la latència cel·lular i bloquegin la progressió del càncer.
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Revelar els mecanismes de resposta a agents antitumorals dirigits contra les vies de senyalització EGFR, BRAF, MEK, ERK, LGR5, Wnt, PARP o Hippo.
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Perfeccionar i ampliar la nostra col·lecció de models de xenoinnests derivats de pacients (PDX) i models avançats de càncer, així com desenvolupar tècniques d’imatge in vivo.

Figura: Les cèl·lules tumorals inactives quimioresistents (nuclis verds) s’amaguen dins de nínxols hipòxics (vermells) en carcinomes en creixement.
Cap de grup
Héctor G. Palmer
Investigadors sènior
Isabel Puig
Becaris postdoctorals
David Aguilar
Oriol Arqués
Belen Elguero
Jordi Martínez-Quintanilla
Lorena Ramirez
Estudiants de doctorat
Peijin Jiang
Alex Mur
Candida Salvans Gorjón
Tècnics
Anna Maria Alcántara
Laia Cabellos
Debora Cabot
Irene Chicote
Raquel Flores
Jordi Vergés San Jaime
Bioinformàtics
Gilles Flamen
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
Totes les publicacions
- 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.
- 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.
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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
- 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

13. Development and clinical validation of a CDx for ONR-001 monitoring in melanoma patients using plasmonic nanoparticles. Funding entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación – Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Ref: CPP2023-010692. Execution period: 01/11/2024-31/10/2027. Coordinator: ONIRIA THERAPEUTICS, SL. PI VHIO: Héctor García Palmer

14. Bridging Preclinical Research and Clinical Application: a First-in-Class TET2 Activator for Overcoming Resistance in Colorectal Cancer. Funded by: Agencia Estatal de Investigación – Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. CPP2024-011292. 01/03/2025 – 29/02/2028. Coordinator: Oniria. PI VHIO: Héctor García Palmer

Hem participat al disseny de l’assaig clínic acadèmic BRAVE que començarà a reclutar pacients amb càncer colorectal amb mutació de BRAF I 2024.








