Albert Santamaria Martinez
Nationality: Swiss
EPFL SV ISREC UPORICCHIO
SV 2824 (Bâtiment SV)
Station 19
CH-1015 Lausanne
Expertise
Current work
Awards
Pfizer Prize in Oncology
2013
SNF Ambizione
PZ00P3_154751, Principal Investigator
2015
Anna Fuller Fund Grant
2011
Vall d' Hebron Research Institute Foundation Grant
2005
Krebsliga grant
KLS-4121-02-2017, Principal Investigator
2017
Fondazione San Salvatore
Co-Principal Investigator
2021
Selected publications
Development of patient-derived lymphomoids with preserved tumor architecture for lymphoma therapy screening
Albert Santamaria- MartÃnez✉︎, Justine Epiney, Divyanshu Srivastava, Daniele Tavernari, Marco Varrone, Dina Milowich, Igor Letovanec, Thorsten Krueger, Rafael Duran, Giovanni Ciriello, Anne Cairoli & Elisa Oricchio✉︎
Published in Nature Communications volume 15, 10650 (2024) in
Metabolic dependencies of metastasis-initiating cells in female breast cancer
C. Megan Young, Laurent Beziaud, Pierre Dessen, Angela Madurga Alonso, Albert Santamaria-MartÃnez✉︎ & Joerg Huelsken✉︎
Published in Nature Communications volume 14, 7076 (2023) in
The Tumor Microenvironment as a Driving Force of Breast Cancer Stem Cell Plasticity
Flavia Fico & Albert Santamaria-MartÃnez✉︎
Published in Cancers (Basel) . 2020 Dec 21;12(12):3863. in
TGFBI modulates tumour hypoxia and promotes breast cancer metastasis
Flavia Fico & Albert Santamaria-MartÃnez✉︎
Published in Molecular oncology, Vol. 14, Issue 12, 2020 in
Breast cancer stem cells with tumor vs metastasis initiating capacities are modulated by TGFBR1 inhibition
Flavia Fico, Mélanie Bousquenaud, Curzio Rüegg and Albert Santamaria-MartÃnez✉︎
Published in Stem Cell Reports 2019, Vol. 13, 1-9 in
Obesity promotes the expansion of metastasis-initiating cells
Mélanie Bousquenaud, Flavia Fico, Giovanni Solinas, Curzio Rüegg* and Albert Santamaria- MartÃnez✉︎*
Published in Breast Cancer Research, 2018, 20:104 in
The niche under siege: novel targets for metastasis therapy
Santamaria-MartÃnez A. and Huelsken J.
Published in Journal of Internal Medicine 2013, 274(2):127-36 in
Interactions between cancer stem cells and their niche govern metastatic colonization
Ilaria Malanchi*, Albert Santamaria-MartÃnez*, Evelyn Susanto, Hong Peng, Hans-Anton Lehr, Jean-Francois Delaloye & Joerg Huelsken
Published in Nature 481, 85:89, 2012
(*equal contribution) in
Research
Book chapters
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.