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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Marta visited UCD Conway in Dublin
September 2016 Marta visited Alfonso Blanco lab and the Flow Cytometry Core in UCD Conway for 3 months. She is now an expert in flow cytometry assays. They…
New results published in the MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS
This research work was led by Maria Mayan, performed in collaboration with the Proteomics Unit of INIBIC and Confocal Microscopy Unit of CNIO. It was partially funded by the Francisco…
New results published in ONCOTARGET
September 2016 This research work was performed in collaboration with Christian Naus’s lab from The Life Sciences Institute (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) ONCOTARGET Congrats Rachel!
We got the first position for the all areas of biological science and biomedicine
June 2016 We got the first position for the all areas of biological science and biomedicine, after the second round (evaluation), of the most competitive predoctoral fellowships (FPU) in Spain.…
The second Thesis Defence of the Group
April 2016 The second Thesis Defence of the Group Congratulations to Dr. Gago!!!
First prize for the career awarded by the BANCO SANTANDER UDC
January 2016 Congrats to Marina Rodríguez-Candela for the first prize for the career awarded by the BANCO SANTANDER UDC