Stephanie Dawson
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🌍 REMEDi4ALL is LIVE at #RExPO25 in Barcelona!

Today we’re at Barcelona Biomedical Research Park for REPO4EU's annual conference, joining the community and taking the stage to discuss patient engagement, training, internationalisation and the REMEDi4ALL platform!
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Great poster by Christian Gratz of @tumunich.bsky.social at #RExPO25 'Transcriptomic Biomarker Discovery from Extracellular Vesicles: A Workflow Using Off-Label Treatment of Anaplastic Thyroid #Cancer' @repo4eu.bsky.social @scienceopen.bsky.social : drugrepocentral.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
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More #cancer research at #RExPO25! 'Drug repurposing for cancer and beyond through the RePo-SUDOE project' @repo4eu.bsky.social @scienceopen.bsky.social : drugrepocentral.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
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Another great talk at #RExPO25. Giving hope to #cancer patients. 'Patient-derived lymphoma organoids and repurposed drugs: novel solutions for improved B cell lymphoma treatment': drugrepocentral.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
Patient-derived lymphoma organoids and repurposed drugs: novel solutions for improved B cell lymphoma treatment
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d816596e219">B cell lymphomas (BCL) are a heterogenous group of hematologic malignancies, with over 70 identified subtypes. Current first line treatment for all subtypes is rituximab and chemotherapy regimen (R-CHOP); of the treated patients, up to 40-60% relapse or have refractory disease, with typically higher mortality rates. Therefore, more efficient treatment, but also improved <i>ex vivo</i> research models are needed to study the treatment response and resistance. To overcome the expensive and time-consuming process of drug discovery and development, we aim to combat the lymphoma heterogeneity with repurposed drugs, especially focusing on cationic amphiphilic drugs (CADs) that damage cancer cell lysosomes. </p><p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d816596e224">Lysosomes are central organelles in nutrient sensing and cellular metabolism. Malignant transformation rewires cellular metabolism to boost growth. In turn, cancer cells increase lysosomal production and activity to meet the metabolic needs. Our current results indicate that targeting the reported cancer cell lysosomal ‘weakness’ with repurposed CADs Ebastine and Penfluridol prevents pro-survival cell signaling, and suppresses long-term tumor outgrowth in B lymphoma cell lines, patient blood B cells, and in patient lymph node-derived organoids. </p><p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d816596e226">We have developed a novel patient-derived lymphoma organoid model as an <i>ex vivo</i> drug assay platform from patients’ own cancer tissue. With combining the lymphoma organoid model and repurposed drugs, this study provides a simpler and cost-effective, yet translationally relevant clinical solution for personalized medicine and improved treatment of BCL patients. </p>
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Great talks at #RExPO25 this morning. Really gives hope we can beat some of these cancers.
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#RExPO25 Speakers | S1: Meeting unmet medical needs in cancer

🟣 Jelena Gnjatovic (FICAN West)

🟣 Prashant Changoer (@radboudumc.bsky.social)

🟣 @albertantolin.bsky.social (@idibell.bsky.social)

🟣 Ana Álvarez (RePo-SUDOE)

Check the conference agenda ⤵️
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#RExPO25 Speakers | S9: Hot topics & late-breaking abstracts

🟣 Michael Firgens (MF BIOTECH)

🟣 João Joaquim (Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra)

🟣 Jasmin Bahr (U. Hospital Essen)

🟣 Natalie Binder & Natasha Alwis (U. Melbourne)

Check the full conference agenda ⤵️
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RExPO25 Session in focus: Hot topics and late-breaking abstracts.
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For @peerreviewweek.bsky.social we share this poster presentation from the EASE Peer Review Committee, detailing their Guides and Infographics available from our PR Toolkit, Publications and Resources.

See it in hi-res + more info on @scienceopen.bsky.social

doi.org/10.14293/EAS...

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💊 New in #DrugRepurposing Journal (Vol. 2, Issue 1):

"Role of Chemoinformatics & Machine Learning in Drug Repurposing"

From virtual screening & molecular docking to AI & AlphaFold — computational tools are transforming how we find new uses for old drugs.

#AI #MachineLearning #DrugDiscovery