Raimondi, Giulia (Date of defense: 2020-06-08)
The general goal of this thesis has been to progress oncolytic adenovirus therapy for PDAC, by the incorporation of novel preclinical models to test for patient-specific responses and the generation of ...
Garrido Charles, Aida (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Light-controlled manipulation of neuronal activity has transformed the field of neurobiology. Light provides temporal and spatial resolution over activation or inhibition of targeted populations of ...
Ruiz Arroyo, Víctor Manuel (Date of defense: 2020-10-23)
Zika virus (ZIKV) belongs to the Flaviviridae family and constitute an important public health concern since ZIKV infection produced devastating effects in new born infants. Flaviviruses present a ...
Arruda Frommenwiler, Débora (Date of defense: 2020-10-27)
Quality control of herbals has its roots in the study of morphoanatomic and organoleptic characters. Nevertheless, in the last century, with the evolution of analytical chemistry, the quality control ...
Vargas Nadal, Guillem (Date of defense: 2020-10-23)
Quatsomes are lipid-based nanovesicles developed by Nanomol group, composed of ionic surfactants and sterol derivatives. Regarding their properties, Quatsomes have shown to be highly homogenous and ...
Rodríguez Rius, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)
Venous Thrombosis (VT) is a frequent complex disease that involves a disruption of the balance of the hemostatic system. microRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression. ...
Hardoüin, Jérôme (Date of defense: 2020-01-10)
Living systems flow. What appears obvious from our daily observation of people, birds or insects remains surprisingly true at the smallest scale of life. Even at the earliest stages of embryonic ...
Cejalvo Andújar, Juan Miguel (Date of defense: 2020-01-22)
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women and it represents the most common cause of cancer-‐related death in women worldwide1. Advances in early detection, prevention, risk stratification, ...
Lantero Escolar, Elena (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
La malaria es una enfermedad infecciosa producida por Plasmodium, protozoo transmitido a través de la picadura de mosquitos del género Anopheles. Aunque existen tratamientos y medidas de prevención, en ...
Farrera Sal, Martí (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)
The oncolytic viruses (OVs) preferentially infect tumor and selectively replicate in cancer cells without harming normal tissues. OVs have been tested in clinical trials as monotherapy or combined with ...