
Welcome
Welcome to the website of the CellCOM Research Group. Our group is a translational and clinical research group within the Center for Research in Nanomaterials and Biomedicine (CINBIO). Our approaches combine in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models to conduct pre-clinical studies in age-related diseases and cancer. Our group is a multidisciplinary team that includes basic scientists (predoctoral, postdoctoral fellows and technicians) and clinical researchers such as pathologists, dermatologists, radiologists and surgeons.
Our aims are to understand the physiopathology of connexin-linked diseases (cancer, inflammation, tissue degeneration), to design molecules and new drugs that modulate the activity of specific targets and to identify novel markers of disease prevention, diagnosis and disease management.
We are focused on understanding the role of connexins and pannexins in osteoarthritis, skin wound healing in oncological patients, metastasis and resistance to targeted cancer therapies and immunotherapies. Our final goal is to identify effective therapeutic targets to design specific and successful therapeutic approaches to treat these disorders.
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FET-OPEN «Novel Ideas for Radically New Technologies»
June 2019 FET OPEN – Horizon2020 The EU H2020 FET-Open establishes multi-disciplinary consortia with the goal of supporting the early-stages of the science and technology research and innovation around new ideas…
SEBBM Congress in Madrid
July 2019 Our group has participated in the SEBBM annual conference in Madrid. Congratulations to Marta! She has presented her work on senescence and tissue regeneration in osteoarthritis in the…
AECC fellowship to Alejandro Castro Iglesias
Sept 2018 AECC fellowship and AECC annual meeting Congratulations Alex! Thanks to this fellowship Alex joined to our group and has obtained good results in BRAF-mutated metastatic melanoma. He will…
Our research findings in the newspaper
Dec 2018 Newspapers cover our findings We are very happy to see that our results awakened interest in the society. Only in Facebook the notice accounts more than 5.7K interactions…
IX International Young Investigator Meeting
Dec 2018 IX International Young Investigator Meeting Thanks to all for participating in the meeting, in special to the speakers and to Xosé Bustelo, Manuel de León, María Pardo, Rafael…
International Gap Junction Conference 2019 in Victoria, Vancouver (Canada)
Aug 2019 We have presented our results in osteoarthritis and metastatic melanoma in the IGJC2019 in Victoria and we are glad to present and get A Coruña as the next…