Susceptibility, tumor progression and resistance
Pujana’s Lab

DESCRIPTION

Targeting cancer complexity at origin and progression

Our research is focused on better understanding breast cancer initiation and, from acquired knowledge, to assess targeted prevention strategies. In parallel, we study pan-cancer vulnerabilities and the connection to a rare, lung metastatic disease, lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM).

Group members

Miquel Angel Pujana

Group leaders

Principal investigator

Francesca Mateo

Researchers

Research assistant

Roderic Espín

Young investigators

PhD student

Lara Ruiz

Young investigators

PhD student

Arzoo Shabbir

Young investigators

PhD student

Luís Alfaro

Young investigators

PhD student

Publications

Looking for a Better Characterization of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer by Means of Circulating Tumor Cells

5 de February de 2020/in Pujana's Lab/by miguel

J Clin Med. 2020 Jan 27;9(2):353. doi: 10.3390/jcm9020353. ABSTRACT Traditionally, studies to address the characterization of mechanisms promoting tumor aggressiveness and progression have been focused only on primary tumor analyses, which could provide relevant information but have limitations to really characterize the more aggressive tumor population. To overcome these limitations, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) represent […]

Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes

9 de January de 2020/in Pujana's Lab/by miguel

Nat Genet. 2020 Jan;52(1):56-73. doi: 10.1038/s41588-019-0537-1. Epub 2020 Jan 7. ABSTRACT Genome-wide association studies have identified breast cancer risk variants in over 150 genomic regions, but the mechanisms underlying risk remain largely unknown. These regions were explored by combining association analysis with in silico genomic feature annotations. We defined 205 independent risk-associated signals with the […]

Association of Genomic Domains in BRCA1 and BRCA2 with Prostate Cancer Risk and Aggressiveness

15 de November de 2019/in Pujana's Lab/by miguel

Cancer Res. 2020 Feb 1;80(3):624-638. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-1840. Epub 2019 Nov 13. ABSTRACT Pathogenic sequence variants (PSV) in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) are associated with increased risk and severity of prostate cancer. We evaluated whether PSVs in BRCA1/2 were associated with risk of overall prostate cancer or high grade (Gleason 8+) prostate cancer using an international […]

The FANCM:p.Arg658* truncating variant is associated with risk of triple-negative breast cancer

9 de November de 2019/in Pujana's Lab/by miguel

NPJ Breast Cancer. 2019 Nov 1;5:38. doi: 10.1038/s41523-019-0127-5. eCollection 2019. ABSTRACT Breast cancer is a common disease partially caused by genetic risk factors. Germline pathogenic variants in DNA repair genes BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, ATM, and CHEK2 are associated with breast cancer risk. FANCM, which encodes for a DNA translocase, has been proposed as a breast […]

Generalised mosaicism for TSC2 mutation in isolated lymphangioleiomyomatosis

6 de July de 2019/in Pujana's Lab/by miguel

Eur Respir J. 2019 Oct 10;54(4):1900938. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00938-2019. Print 2019 Oct. NO ABSTRACT PMID:31273045 | PMC:PMC7340110 | DOI:10.1183/13993003.00938-2019

Research Projects

The group works and collaborates to decipher the systems mechanisms of cancer development and progression, with the aim of developing more precise preventive and therapeutic approaches. The group combines in silico and wet-lab studies for the purpose of identifying cancer principles and vulnerabilities.

Collaborations

CIMBA – Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2

https://cimba.ccge.medschl.cam.ac.uk/

Lobular Breast Cancer

https://lobsterpot.eu/

BRCA1 breast cancer

Khokha Lab

https://medbio.utoronto.ca/faculty/khokha

Hakem Lab

https://medbio.utoronto.ca/faculty/hakem

Maxwell Lab

https://www.bcchr.ca/cmaxwell

Serra Lab

https://vhio.net/biosketch-violeta-serra/

Cancer biology

Schramek Lab

https://schramek.lunenfeld.ca/

Li Lab

https://lilab.smhs.gwu.edu/

Barcellos-Hoff Lab

https://barcelloshofflab.ucsf.edu/principal-investigator

Cancer genetics

De Cid Lab – GCAT

http://www.gcatbiobank.org/

LAM research

Johnson Lab – LAM UK

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/medicine/people/simon.johnson

Elżbieta Radzikowska

National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Poland

Kwiatkowski Lab

https://www.kwiatkowskilab.org/

AELAM

https://www.aelam.org/

VHIR

https://vhir.vallhebron.com/en/research/pneumology

Molina Lab

https://idibell.cat/en/research/translational-medicine-area/cardiovascular-respiratory-and-systemic-diseases-and-cellular-aging-program/pneumology/

Susceptibility, tumor progression and resistancePujana’s Lab

DESCRIPTION

Miquel Angel Pujana

Group leaders

Francesca Mateo

Researchers

Roderic Espín

Young investigators

Lara Ruiz

Young investigators

Arzoo Shabbir

Young investigators

Luís Alfaro

Young investigators

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Susceptibility, tumor progression and resistance
Pujana’s Lab