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Building a reproducible single-cell experimental workflow to capture tumour cell persistence

Description du projet

La biologie de la résistance aux médicaments dans le cancer

Dans de nombreux types de cancer, l’apparition de résistances aux médicaments empêche d’obtenir une cure. Avant d’adopter des stratégies thérapeutiques plus intelligentes, nous devons mieux comprendre la maladie résiduelle après traitement et la manière dont ces cellules tolérantes aux médicaments surgissent et persistent. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, le projet PERSIST-SEQ, financé par l’UE, propose d’étudier la biologie de la résistance thérapeutique dans le cancer au niveau unicellulaire. À l’aide d’organoïdes dérivés des patients, de modèles murins et de techniques de modélisation, les chercheurs dresseront le profil de cellules individuelles et obtiendront des connaissances fondamentales sur la résistance aux médicaments dans le cancer. Les résultats devraient améliorer les décisions thérapeutiques et les résultats cliniques des patients.

Objectif

It is the ambition of PRESIST-SEQ to provide a new gold standard in single-cell experimental workflows the cancer research community by developing best practices, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and high-quality FAIR data, with the ultimate aim to empower them to unravel therapeutic resistance. Such, that the community can identify urgently needed markers to predict, prevent, and target tumour resistance. Cancer takes 9.6 million lives each year, 90% of which result from untreatable metastatic relapse occurring after initially (seemingly) effective treatment. Therapeutic resistance is hence a primary cause of cancer death that clinically cannot be predicted, prevented, or treated. Addressing the urgent need for smarter therapeutic strategies is however held back by the lack of standardised experimental approaches that enable studying the biology of residual disease and drug tolerant persister cells in full detail. This need encompasses best practices for single-cell sequencing, advanced modelling techniques using patient-derived organoids and xenografts, and data FAIRification for integrated experiments. To address this need, PERSIST-SEQ brings together globally leading groups in single-cell sequencing technologies, cancer modelling and therapeutic resistance. Furthermore, the consortium has a broad range of clinical samples, cell lines, 3D models (PDX and PDOs) and mice models (GEMMs) at its disposal that can be leveraged to answer a broad range of emerging questions. This positions the consortium excellently to (1) design and standardise single-cell experimental approach to study the biology of therapeutic resistance and (2) initiate the largest single-cell profiling initiative on therapeutic resistance. Importantly, PERSIST-SEQ is organised such that it can quickly adapt to emerging insights and techniques during the project, and that ensures the capture of learnings in manners that stimulate replication of workflows elsewhere.

Coordinateur

STICHTING ONCODE INSTITUTE
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 406 875,00
Adresse
JAARBEURSPLEIN 6
3521 AL Utrecht
Pays-Bas

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Région
West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht
Type d’activité
Other
Liens
Coût total
€ 2 156 750,00

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