Sarai Sarvide Plano (Sangüesa, 1984) has received the first national award to the scientific work of the congress National Technical laboratory, held in Pamplona. A specialist technician at research center (CIMA) of the University of Navarra, she presented a novel immunotherapy strategy against multiple myeloma.

"The organoids are a three-dimensional culture model that we have fine-tuned at laboratory with cells from patients and healthy donors. We have achieved a system that faithfully represents the biological reality of bone marrow. This model has proven to be an effective tool with which to transfer the response of the immunotherapy drugs obtained at laboratory to the results obtained in patients with multiple myeloma," explains Sarai Sarvide.

14 years of work from laboratory

Sarai Sarvide is a specialist technician in Anatomy Pathology and Cytology (TEAP). "I started working at CIMA in 2004 (recently inaugurated building), in the area of Gene Therapy and Hepatology, directed by Dr. Jesús Prieto. Since 4 years ago work in the group of Dr. Jesús San Miguel, in the Hemato-oncology Program".

Sarai Sarvide is co-author of 6 scientific publications in high impact specialized journals and 4 posters presented at international congresses, one of them awarded by the association European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).