Objective
Although cancer immunotherapy has achieved significant breakthroughs in recent years that has positioned it as the most promising approach to treat cancer, its overall efficacy remains limited in the majority of patients. Nutrition-deprived conditions at tumor microenvironment poses significant metabolic challenges to tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes which may contribute to failure of anti-tumor activity. The main objective of the Immunometabolomics project is to understand metabolism in CD8+ T cells, during active effector T cell development and exhaustion, using approaches that go beyond current research which have been mostly focused on glucose/energy metabolism thus disregarding the relevance of anabolic and redox reactions that are crucial in correct cellular function and proliferation. Open-ended metabolomics and metabolic flux analysis studies, in combination with genetic, nutrition and pharmacological manipulations will be employed to study areas of metabolism that have not been previously extensively studied in CD8+ T cells including 1C metabolism. The characterization of metabolism in CD8+ T cells will be gradually performed in models of higher complexity and physiological and clinical relevance from in vitro, to in vivo in genetically engineered mouse models of lung cancer and finally in lung cancer patients. Through understanding CD8+ T cell metabolism, and its modulation in cancer within tumor microenvironment, we aim to develop a basic science foundation for increasing immunotherapy efficiency in cancer through the use of complementary nutritional and/or metabolism-targeted pharmacological approaches.
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- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry organic reactions
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology lung cancer
- natural sciences biological sciences cell biology cell metabolism
- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunotherapy
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF-GF - Global Fellowships
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
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46026 Valencia
Spain
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