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• Role of autophagy in autoantigen presentation during T-cell ontogeny and autoimmunity

  This line of research focuses on studying the role of autophagy in the presentation of type 1 diabetes-relevant autoantigens by thymic and peripher...

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• Engineering of recombinant peptide-major histocompatibility complexes suitable for eliciting autoreactive T-regulatory type 1 cells in vivo

  This projects seeks to engineer novel recombinant pMHC structures suitable for human therapeutic application.

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• Understanding pancreatic carcinogenesis

  Directed by Dr. Cristina Fillat  Pancreatic carcinogenesis is well defined as a multistage process accompanied by distinct morphological and histo...

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• Oncolytic virotherapies against pancreatic cancer

  Directed by Dr. Cristina Fillat  Oncolytic adenoviruses replicate in the tumors leading to oncolysis and triggering an immune cell infiltration in...

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• Preclinical gene therapy /genome editing studies for metabolic rare diseases

  Directed by Dr. Cristina Fillat  Glutaric aciduria type I (GA-I) is a metabolic inherited disease due to mutations in the GCDH gene. Individuals w...

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• Utility of cardiac magnetic resonance in the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias

  Obtaining MRI and analysis of the arrhythmia substrate using specialized software. 

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• Role of sinusoidal cells in the progression and regression of liver diseases

  We aim at comprehensively characterizing the molecular mechanisms responsible for sinusoidal cells de-regulation during the progression of liver pa...

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• Sinusoidal communications in liver diseases

  Using original bioengineered in vitro models, we aim at describing the effects that modifications in sinusoidal biomechanics, occurring during live...

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• Aging & liver diseases

  Considering the increase in worldwide population median age and life expectancy, we devote a significant part of our resources at characterizing, i...

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• Molecular pathology of B-cell neoplasms

  Directed by Elías Campo To characterize the molecular alterations involved in the development and progression of lymphoid neoplasms, particularly...

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• Oncogene mediated genome instability and transcriptional stress in the progression of lymphoid neoplasms

  Directed by Pedro Jares Our research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms behind the genomic instability and transcriptional dysregul...

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• Non-coding RNA alterations in the pathogenesis on B-cell lymphoid neoplasms

  Directed by Lluis Hernández We focus on finding non-coding RNAs (mainly microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs) as biomarkers of interest in the clini...

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• MRI and genetic markers of multiple sclerosis long-term progression

  Observational study to explore the biology of progression in multiple sclerosis using genetic approaches coupled with neuroimage-based tissue pheno...

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• Cognitive rehabilitation and brain plasticity in multiple sclerosis

  A randomized controlled clinical study: Study to evaluate the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation in patients with multiple sclerosis that presen...

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• Structural connectivity in multiple sclerosis

  Multicentric study within MAGNIMS group. This project is designed to provide high quality information on the changes in structural connectivity in...

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• Network mechanisms of working memory in the prefrontal cortex

  We combine computational model simulations with data analysis of electrophysiological single-neuron recordings from collaborating laboratories in o...

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• The role of NMDARs in working memory

  We are investigating the specific deficits in working memory of patients recovering from anti-NMDAR encephalitis. We study their behavioral paramet...

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• The role of NMDARs in slow-wave sleep

  We investigate sleep patterns in anti-NMDAR encephalitis patients by recording polysomnogram and EEG longitudinally as patients recover from the di...

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• The NMDAR hypothesis of schizophrenia

  NMDAR hypofunction has been hypothesized as a possible mechanism of schizophrenia. By comparing behavioral, EEG and fMRI parameters between anti-NM...

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• The multifaceted mitochondria: obesity, diabetes and beyond

  Directed by Marc Claret  We have several projects aimed at understanding neuron-type specific mitochondrial biology, from many different angles (d...

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