Translational Research on Hematological Neoplasms

 Research group

Group Leader

Blanca Espinet Solà

The Translational Research on Hematological Neoplasms Group (GRETNHE) is integrated within the Cancer Programme from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM). The GRETNHE is a multidisciplinary group with different research areas. Among them, the most relevant are myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), myeloproliferative neoplasms/myelodysplastic syndromes (MPN/MDS), chronic lymphocytic leukemia/monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis (CLL/MBL), mantle cell lymphoma/monoclonal asymptomatic lymphocytosis cyclin D1 positive (MCL/MALD1), splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) and cutaneous lymphomas (CL). Our aim is the phenotypic, cytogenetic and molecular characterization of these entities.

Members

Leonor Arenillas Rocha (Researcher)

Luis Carlos Barranco Sanz (Researcher)

Gonzalo Blanco Ares (Researcher)

Xavier Calvo González (Researcher)

Lluís Colomo Saperas (Researcher)

Ana Ferrer del Álamo (Researcher)

Fernando Gallardo Hernández (Researcher)

Carme Pedro Olivé (Researcher)

Anna Maria Puiggros Metje (Researcher)

Marta Salido Galeote (Researcher)

Sílvia Ramos Campoy (PhD Student)

Sergi Clavé Safon (Technician)

Beatriz Costán Medina (Technician)

M. Carme Melero Vilella (Technician)

Maria del Mar Rodríguez Rivera (Technician)

 

Main Publications

• Clot G, Jares P, Giné E, Navarro A, Royo C, Pinyol M, Martín-Garcia D, Demajo S, Espinet B, Salar A, Ferrer A, Muntañola A, Aymerich M, Rauert-Wunderlich H, Jaffe ES, Connors JM, Gascoyne RD, Delabie J, López-Guillermo A, Ott G, Wright GW, Staudt LM, Rosenwald A, Scott DW, Rimsza LM, Beà S, Campo E. A new molecular assay and genomic complexity predict outcome in conventional and leukemic non-nodal mantle cell lymphoma. Blood 2018; 132(4): 413-422. IF 15.132. D1.

• Calvo X, Florensa L, Arenillas L. (In)convenience of adding age and comorbidities to prognostic models in myelodysplastic syndromes. Leukemia 2018; 32(5): 1264-1266. IF 10.023. D1.

• Gallardo F, Bertran J, López-Arribillaga E, González J, Menéndez S, Sánchez I, Colomo L, Iglesias M, Garrido M, Santamaría-Babí LF, Torres F, Pujol RM, Bigas A, Espinosa L. Novel phosphorylated TAK1 species with functional impact on NF-κB and β-catenin signaling in human Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Leukemia 2018; 32(10): 2211-2223. IF 10.023. D1.

• Karube K, Enjuanes A, Dlouhy I, Jares P, Martín-Garcia D, Nadeu F, Ordóñez GR, Rovira J, Clot G, Royo C, et al. Integrating genomic alterations in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma identifies new relevant pathways and potential therapeutic targets. Leukemia 2018; 32(3): 675-684. IF 10.023. D1.

• Cabello I, Alia P, Pintó X, Muniesa C, Fernández-de-Misa R, Peñate Y, Morillo M, Pérez-Farriols A, Estrach T, Izu R, Gallardo F, Román C, Cervigón I, Ortiz-Brugués A, Ortiz-Romero PL, Servitje O. Association of APOA5 and APOC3 Genetic Polymorphisms With Severity of Hypertriglyceridemia in Patients With Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma Treated With Bexarotene. JAMA Dermatol 2018; 154(12): 1424-1431. IF 8.107. D1.

• López-Lerma I, Peñate Y, Gallardo F, Martí RM, Mitxelena J, Bielsa I, Velasco-Tamariz V, Yanguas-Bayona JI, Sánchez-Sambucety P, García-Patos V, Ortiz-Romero PL, Pujol RM, Estrach T. Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma: Clinical features, therapeutic approach, and outcome in a case series of 16 patients. J Am Acad Dermatol 2018; 79(5): 892-898. IF 6.898. D1.

• Chang LW, Patrone CC, Yang W, Rabionet R, Gallardo F, Espinet B, Sharma MK, Girardi M, Tensen CP, Vermeer M, Geskin LJ. An integrated data resource for genomic analysis of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. J Invest Dermatol 2018; 138(12): 2681-2683. IF 6.448. D1.

• Maroñas-Jiménez L, Estrach T, Gallardo F, Pérez A, Andrés H, Servitje O, Pérez-Gala S, Linares M, Jiménez-Gallo D, Sanz-Bueno DJ, Lora D, Monsálvez V, Ortiz-Romero PL. Aprepitant improves refractory pruritus in primary cutaneous T-cell lymphomas: experience of the Spanish Working Group on Cutaneous Lymphomas. Br J Dermatol 2018; 178(4): e274. IF 6.129. D1.

• Blanco G, Vardi A, Puiggros A, Gómez-Llonin A, Muro M, Rodríguez-Rivera M, Stalika E, Abella E, Gimeno E, López-Sánchez M, Senín A, Calvo X, Abrisqueta P, Bosch F, Ferrer A, Stamatopoulos K, Espinet B. Restricted T cell receptor repertoire in CLL-like monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis and early stage CLL. OncoImmunology 2018; 7(6): e1432328. IF 5.503. Q1.

• Clavé S, Pijuan L, Casadevall D, Taus A, Gimeno J, Hernández-Llodrà S, Rodríguez M, Lorenzo M, Menéndez S, Albanell J, Espinet B, Arriola E, Salido M. CD274 (PDL1) and JAK2 genomic amplifications in pulmonary squamous-cell and adenocarcinoma patients. Histopathology 2018; 72(2): 259-269. IF 3.267. Q1.

Ongoing Research Projects

• Desarrollo y validación de un panel de secuenciación para translocaciones y mutaciones con relevancia clínica en neoplasias de células B maduras

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI15/00437)

- Period: from 2016 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Espinet Solà, Blanca

• Leucemia linfática crónica de alto riesgo genético: caracterización citogenético-molecular y epigenética por microarrays y Next Generation Sequencing. Asociación con impacto clínico

- Financing institution: Fundación Española de - Hematología y Hemoterapia (FEHH)

- Period: from 2018 to 2019

- Principal investigator: Blanco Ares, Gonzalo

• Análisis clínico de la monitorización mediante genotipado de ADN tumoral circulante en sangre (biopsia líquida) en pacientes con neoplasias linfoides de alto grado

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI17/00313)

- Period: from 2018 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Colomo Saperas, Lluís

• Clinico-biological characterization of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients with complex karyotype (CK) and absence of TP53 aberrations

- Financing institution: GILEAD SCIENCES S.L.U

- Period: from 2018 to 2019

- Principal investigator: Espinet Solà, Blanca

 

Group’s Recognitions

• Officially recognised as a consolidated research group by the Generalitat de Catalunya: Grup de Recerca Translacional en Neoplàsies Hematològiques (GRETNHE). 2017-2020

- Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (SGR 437)

- Principal investigator: Espinet Solà, Blanca

 

Clinical Trials Signed in 2018

• Estudio en fase III, aleatorizado, doble ciego y controlado con placebo para investigar la eficacia y seguridad de roxadustat (FG-4592) en el tratamiento de la anemia en pacientes con riesgo inferior de síndrome mielodisplásico (SMD) y carga baja de transfusión (LTB) de eritrocitos

- Register: FGCL-4592-082

- Principal investigator: Pedro Olivé, Carme

• Estudio aleatorizado (1:1), doble ciego, multicéntrico y controlado con placebo para evaluar la quimioterapia intensiva con o sin GLASDEGIB (PF-04449913) o la azacitidina (AZA) con o sin GLASDEGIB en pacientes con leucemia mieloide aguda no tratada previamente

- Register: B1371019

- Principal investigator: Pedro Olivé, Carme

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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