The Ramón Areces Foundation will finance a project of research of the University for the fight against bone marrow cancer.
The project is developed by Tecnun, Engineering School of the University, with partnership of the Cima
A project of the University of Navarra has received 120,000 euros from the Ramón Areces Foundation for the research of bone marrow cancer, a disease that currently has no cure. The project will be developed over the next three years by Francisco Planes, Deputy Director of department of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences of the School of Engineering and researcher principal of project, explains that the study C consists of a personalized medicine program for multiple myeloma, a subject of bone marrow cancer.
"Multiple myeloma is a very heterogeneous cancer and, therefore, the development of personalized medicine programs is essential. The goal of that research is to exploit the metabolic alterations of myeloma patients through mathematical algorithms using data genomic and transcriptomic ," notes Planes.
"These algorithms have been previously published and validated in Nature Communications and Nature Protocols, and we have the largest and most comprehensive cohort of multiple myeloma patients (COMMPASS) available in the literature," continues researcher.
Likewise, and as the expert explains, in the framework of this project "a set of therapeutic targets and response markers are expected to be identified and in-vitro and in-vivo validation will be carried out".
42 projects financedA total of 42 scientific projects will be funded by the Ramón Areces Foundation with 5.2 million euros in the 19th edition of the grants for research in Life Sciences and the subject, with a total of 618 initiatives presented by centers and universities in Spain.
The 42 projects, in which 269 researchers will work, will be developed over the next three years in centers, universities and hospitals in the Community of Madrid, Valencia, Catalonia, Castile and Leon, Andalusia and the Basque Country.
At the ceremony of submission held in Madrid took part the president of the Ramón Areces Foundation, Florencio Lasaga; the administrative assistant of State for Universities, research, development and Innovation, Ángeles Heras Caballero, and Federico Mayor Zaragoza, president of committee Scientific of the Ramón Areces Foundation.