Albert Santamaria Martinez
EPFL SV ISREC UPORICCHIO
SV 2824 (Bâtiment SV)
Station 19
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 36 26
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Current work
TUMORSHARE | Personalized medicine, tumor microenvironment, therapy resistance.Awards
Fondazione San Salvatore
Co-Principal Investigator
2021
Krebsliga grant
KLS-4121-02-2017, Principal Investigator
2017
SNF Ambizione
PZ00P3_154751, Principal Investigator
2015
Pfizer Prize in Oncology
2013
Anna Fuller Fund Grant
2011
Vall d’Hebron Research Institute Foundation Grant
2005
Publications
Selected publications
| C. Megan Young, Laurent Beziaud, Pierre Dessen, Angela Madurga Alonso, Albert Santamaria-Martínez✉︎ & Joerg Huelsken✉︎ Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 7076 (2023) |
Metabolic dependencies of metastasis-initiating cells in female breast cancer |
| Flavia Fico & Albert Santamaria-Martínez✉︎ Cancers (Basel) . 2020 Dec 21;12(12):3863. |
The Tumor Microenvironment as a Driving Force of Breast Cancer Stem Cell Plasticity |
| Flavia Fico & Albert Santamaria-Martínez✉︎ Molecular oncology, Vol. 14, Issue 12, 2020 |
TGFBI modulates tumour hypoxia and promotes breast cancer metastasis |
| Flavia Fico, Mélanie Bousquenaud, Curzio Rüegg and Albert Santamaria-Martínez✉︎ Stem Cell Reports 2019, Vol. 13, 1-9 |
Breast cancer stem cells with tumor vs metastasis initiating capacities are modulated by TGFBR1 inhibition |
| Mélanie Bousquenaud, Flavia Fico, Giovanni Solinas, Curzio Rüegg* and Albert Santamaria- Martínez✉︎* Breast Cancer Research, 2018, 20:104 |
Obesity promotes the expansion of metastasis-initiating cells |
| Santamaria-Martínez A. and Huelsken J. Journal of Internal Medicine 2013, 274(2):127-36 |
The niche under siege: novel targets for metastasis therapy |
| Ilaria Malanchi*, Albert Santamaria-Martínez*, Evelyn Susanto, Hong Peng, Hans-Anton Lehr, Jean-Francois Delaloye & Joerg Huelsken Nature 481, 85:89, 2012 (*equal contribution) |
Interactions between cancer stem cells and their niche govern metastatic colonization |
| Santamaria-Martínez A, Barquinero J, Barbosa-Desongles A, Hurtado A, Pinós T, Seoane J, Poupon MF, Morote J, Reventós J, Munell F. Exp Cell Res. 2009 Oct 15;315(17):3004-13 |
Identification of multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells in the reactive stroma of a prostate cancer xenograft by side population analysis. |
Other publications
Book chapters
Dafflon Caroline, Santamaria-Martínez Albert,* and Ordóñez-Morán Paloma*: An Intrasplenic Injection Model for the Study of Cancer Stem Cells Seeding Capacity. Intestinal Stem Cells: Methods and Protocols, ed. P. Ordóñez-Morán, Springer. 2020.Huelsken J. and Santamaria-Martínez A.: Cancer stem cells in metastasis and minimal residual disease. Cancer Stem Cells, ed. V.K. Rajasekhar, Wiley Press, 2014.