Colorectal cancer organoids: prediction model, and therapeutic evaluation"
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide; it is highly heterogeneous, associated with varied prognoses, and characterized by a high rate of treatment failure. Traditional preclinical models—which rely on cell lines and animal models—have been used to study disease development and the mechanisms underlying treatment resistance. Organoids, which are three-dimensional models derived from patients or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), closely replicate the physical and functional architecture of the original tissue, offering a more realistic preclinical model. This seminar will present the development and characterization of organoids derived from CRC patients—a project conducted at HUSL in collaboration with UCAM—as well as the initial drug assays carried out by the research group.
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- Students have access—via the Virtual Campus online platform—to the teaching materials and assignments for seminars offered by the Doctoral Program in Health Sciences, covering the fields of Medical Sciences, Nutrition, and Food Technology.
- Seminars may be completed at the student’s convenience (though the deadline for completing all activities is set by the annual calendar established by EIDUCAM).
- For each seminar, students must watch the video lecture and review the accompanying presentation. Following this, they must complete two tasks on the Virtual Campus:
- First, a multiple-choice quiz. Once submitted, the quiz is graded automatically; if all answers are correct (students are granted up to 5 attempts to achieve this), access to the next task will be unlocked.
- Second, students must prepare a PDF report on the seminar content and upload it to the corresponding assignment section. The report should consist of a summary of approximately 600 words and include at least three bibliographic references (following the Vancouver style) relevant to the seminar’s field of study.
- The person in charge of the activity will review the reports and assign a grade of either "Pass" or "Fail." If a report receives a "Fail" grade, the student must make the indicated corrections and resubmit it before the submission deadline (there is no limit on the number of resubmissions).
- Once the evaluation process is complete, a certificate will be issued for each successfully passed seminar. Students must upload this certificate to the corresponding activity in the LAUREA system, where it will then be validated by their tutor.
- Students who have completed seminars outside of the doctoral program must also upload the relevant certificates to LAUREA for validation by their tutor. These certificates will be issued and sent to the student’s university email address ("alu.ucam.edu") at the end of the academic year.