Contreras Mostazo, Miriam Guadalupe (Date of defense: 2020-10-21)
Cancer cells, including leukemic cells, can react to therapeutic treatment by altering their metabolic phenotype (“metabolic reprogramming”) to keep their accelerated proliferative state, eventually ...
Tarragó Celada, Josep (Date of defense: 2020-09-16)
Metastasis is the main cause of cancer-related deaths and it is of great biomedical importance to develop new therapeutic strategies that specifically target metastatic cells. Therefore, a better ...
Sabaté Pérez, Alba (Date of defense: 2019-10-21)
Overweight and obesity have increased dramatically during recent decades becoming a major health problem for which therapeutic options are limited. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop new safe ...
Zodda, Erika (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
The endothelium plays a pivotal role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and emerging evidence indicates that pathological blood vessel responses and endothelial dysfunction are associated ...
Baptista, Inês do Carmo Viegas (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
Leukaemia is one of the types of cancer where treatment resistance is prevalent. Better understanding of leukemic cells metabolism opens possibilities for new therapeutic strategies and better prognosis ...
Foguet Coll, Carles (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Metabolism is a hallmark of life and underlies most biological processes in both health and disease. For instance, dysregulation of liver metabolism underlies multifactorial disorders such as diabetes ...