Pancreatic Organoids in Drug Evaluation: Personalized Models for Precision Medicine
Pancreatic Organoids in Drug Evaluation: Personalized Models for Precision Medicine
The ISCIII Platform for Biomodels and Biobanks presents a webinar, which will take place on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, at 10:00 AM. During the session, recent advances in the use of patient-derived pancreatic cancer organoids as experimental platforms to evaluate the efficacy of targeted therapies will be presented. Strategies to model tumor heterogeneity, study mechanisms of drug resistance, and develop precision medicine approaches will also be discussed.
The session will be delivered by Sara Alexandra de Sousa Barrambana, a translational cancer researcher with more than 5 years of preclinical experience. She specializes in patient-derived pancreatic cancer models (organoids) and in vivo models, focusing on the evaluation of targeted therapies against KRAS and combination strategies. Her work integrates functional assays with multi-omics data to identify resistance mechanisms and new therapeutic targets.
Sara holds a degree in Human Biology from the University of Évora. She later trained in Molecular Oncology at the University of Porto, where she completed her Master’s thesis in the Signaling and Metabolism Group at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S). She is currently completing her PhD in Molecular Biosciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her thesis has been carried out in the Experimental Oncology Group at CNIO and funded by an FCT fellowship from the Portuguese government.
The event will also include a discussion and Q&A session moderated by Iván Fernández Vega (ISPA-FINBA) and Rocío Aguilar Quesada (BSSPA).
Practical Information
🔗 Participants: The session is aimed at members of the ISCIII Platform for Biomodels and Biobanks, as well as researchers and platform staff interested in preclinical models and precision medicine in pancreatic cancer.
🔗 Registration deadline: Wednesday, April 1
🔗 Webinar registration: Pre-registration form to receive the access link
🔗 Check your spam folder: After registering, to ensure you receive the access link
More information:
coordinationplatformbb@ibecbarcelona.eu