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Understanding and controlling the spatial organisation of cancer

Descripción del proyecto

Reorganizar la estructura de los tumores

La organización espacial y estructural de los tumores contiene información sobre el posible curso futuro del cáncer. Se trata de información que los médicos pueden utilizar para establecer el pronóstico de los pacientes. En este contexto, el proyecto financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación CAN_ORGANISE utilizará técnicas de obtención de imágenes para analizar estos patrones y estructuras. Concretamente, reconfigurará la organización espacial del microentorno tumoral usando información estructural sobre la matriz extracelular y análisis dinámicos. Mediante imagenología intravital longitudinal, los socios del proyecto analizarán e identificarán mecanismos de control de patrones espaciales en modelos de cáncer de piel y de mama.

Objetivo

The spatial of organisation of tumours is the cumulative result of a myriad of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. These interactions determine the shape and relative positions of cells and the deposition and structure of the extracellular matrix (ECM), which feeds back to guide cell migration. The spatial patterns of tumours indirectly encode information about the likely future course of the disease, which is interpreted by pathologists to provide patient prognosis. To understand and control the spatial organisation of tumours requires not just knowledge of cell position, but of the underlying structural matrix. Furthermore, analysis of fixed tissues fails to capture information about cell movement or the relative sequence and kinetics of events. We will place both structural information about the ECM and dynamic analysis obtained through longitudinal intravital imaging and the centre of our work. We will focus on sequentially describing, understanding, and then re-configuring the spatial organisation of the tumour microenvironment. We will develop spatial metrics to analyse stromal architecture and link spatial features to disease outcomes in patient cohorts and therapy responses in intravital imaging studies. Reductionist co-culture assays and microfabricated tools will be used to study the mechanisms of cell-cell and cell-matrix crosstalk that generate spatial patterns. This analysis will be coupled to an agent-based computational model, parameterised using our experimental models, to explore both emergent pattern formation and possible mechanisms of interconversion between spatial patterns. Both experimental and modelling approaches will be used to identify effective mechanisms to control spatial patterns in breast and skin cancer models. Finally, interventional approaches will be adopted to re-organise the spatial architecture of the tumour stroma into patterns that favour effective therapy and tumour elimination.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

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Régimen de financiación

ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant

Institución de acogida

THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 2 500 000,00
Dirección
1 MIDLAND ROAD
NW1 1AT London
Reino Unido

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Región
London Inner London — West Camden and City of London
Tipo de actividad
Research Organisations
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 2 500 000,00

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