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Joan Montero

@joanmontero.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at University of Barcelona (Campus Clínic). Leading the Cell death, senescence and cancer precision medicine lab. Group Leader at IDIBAPS. ICREA Acadèmia awardee. Former IBEC/DFCI/HMS. Board member of the SfPM. www.themonterolab.com

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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @oncogenesisnature.bsky.social Prostate cancer cells acquire BCL-xL dependence during docetaxel treatment, that can be targeted with BCL-xL inhibitors/degraders. Especially grateful to Clara Alcon for her dedication in this project. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dual downregulation of HRK and BAD promotes BCL-xL-mediated docetaxel resistance in prostate cancer - Oncogenesis
Oncogenesis - Dual downregulation of HRK and BAD promotes BCL-xL-mediated docetaxel resistance in prostate cancer
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Excited to share our latest methods review on senescence! 🧬We map apoptotic dependencies in senescent cells using BH3 profiling + p16/p21 to guide senolytics. Targeting BCL‑2 family could boost clearance & therapy outcomes. @ub.edu @idibaps.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1nHlF,25QI...
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
#InternationalChildhoodCancerDay we raise awareness, honor children and families, & reaffirm our commitment to science that saves live by continue working to develop tools that improve therapeutic decision‑making to bring the best treatment to every child www.themonterolab.com
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Home | Montero Lab
The Montero Lab at the University of Barcelona's Department of Biomedical Sciences is dedicated to exploring the biology of cancer metastasis.
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
On #WorldCancerDay, we reaffirm our dedication to understand how cancers develop resistance to therapy and to advancing new functional precision medicine technologies to overcome it. Our mission remains clear: to drive the discovery of more effective treatments for adult and pediatric cancers.
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Gracias por todas esas canciones que han marcado un antes y un después en mi vida. DEP Robe
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Are you attending the American Society of Hematology meeting? Don't miss this session led by SfPM member Dr. Pamela Becker and St. Jude's Integrating Functional and Genomic Precision Medicine for Hematologic Malignancies. Friday, December 5, 2025, 3:00-6:00 PM
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Congratulations @senescel.org for this great meeting! Total success! Dr. Clara Alcon presented our work focused on TIS-mediated resistance, and how to detect it using BH3 profiling and overcome it targeting anti-apoptotic proteins. Can’t wait for the next meeting!
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The Society for Functional Precision Medicine @thesfpm.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚨Excited to announce the seminar by Kushtrim Kryeziu, PhD (Oslo University) on "Functional Precision Oncology for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer". Join us TODAY, at 12 PM EDT, open to everyone! Don't miss it and consider joining the SFPM www.sfpm.io/seminars
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Seminars | SFPM
The SFPM Seminar series is for those interested in the use of assaying technology to further biomarker discovery, drug R&D and personalized healthcare outcomes.
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Universitat de Barcelona @ub.edu · 07/10/2025
#RecercaUB | 🧠 Un nou estudi aconsegueix revertir els efectes de l’Alzheimer en ratolins amb l’ús de nanopartícules portadores de molècules terapèutiques. 🔬 Hi han participat Lorena Ruiz Pérez, de #FísicaUB, i Giuseppe Battaglia, tots dos membres @ibecbarcelona.eu.
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Aconsegueixen revertir l’alzheimer en ratolins amb l'ús de nanopartícules - Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
Un equip internacional codirigit per l'Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC) i l'Hospital West China de la Universitat de Sichuan (WCHSU) va poder revertir l'Alzheimer en ratolins després de n...
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Congratulations Tony! I wish you every success in this new endeavor and I have no doubt that your vision, leadership and integrity will bring great value to the NCI. I'm deeply grateful for your invaluable mentorship, friendship and encouragement over the years. Amazing news!
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A must watch video: How functional precision medicine could be the future of cancer care. Truly inspiring TED talk by Dr. Diana Azzam www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLC...
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How functional precision medicine could be the future of cancer care | Dr. Diana Azzam | TEDxMiami
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Delighted to see good research highlighted on TV @som.3cat.cat Congratulations @tceliaterrassa.bsky.social and team! Hope your findings help to better treat metastatic breast cancer patients. www.3cat.cat/324/cancer-d...
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Càncer de mama: identifiquen les cèl·lules que actuen com a llavors de la metàstasi
Investigadors de l'Hospital del Mar vinculen per primer cop una proteïna a la metàstasi en el càncer de mama i obren la porta a tractaments preventius
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Manuel Collado @manuel-collado.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This is going to be a really cool meeting with great invited speakers, but also offering the possibility to showcase your work independently of your career stage. It will also be loads of fun in Barcelona, with the most friendly and welcoming community ☺️ Rush to register at senescel2025.senescel.org
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Senescel 2025 – II International Conference of the Spanish Society of Cellular Senescence
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
✨ Excited to announce a talk by Rita Fior, PhD on "Zebrafish Avatars for Personalized Medicine & Discovery of Innate Immune Mechanisms"! Join us next Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at 12 PM EDT, organized by @thesfpm.bsky.social. Don't miss it! www.sfpm.io/seminars
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Seminars | SFPM
The SFPM Seminar series is for those interested in the use of assaying technology to further biomarker discovery, drug R&D and personalized healthcare outcomes.
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🚨 New Article Alert! Dive into a fantastic review by several @thesfpm.bsky.social members on how new technologies and functional approaches are revolutionizing personalized cancer treatment. Don't miss out on this game-changing insight! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Acquired resistance in cancer: towards targeted therapeutic strategies - Nature Reviews Cancer
Acquired therapeutic resistance is a key contributor to cancer treatment failure, requiring new approaches to address its complex mechanisms. In this Roadmap, Soragni, Knudsen and colleagues discuss t...
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Elizabeth McKenna @elizsmckenna.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Online now concurrent with the #AACR25 oral presentation by Cancer Discovery Early Career Award Winner @Sandra_Misale: Direct Inhibition of RAS Reveals the Features of Oncogenic Signaling Driven by RAS G12 and Q61 Mutations doi.org/10.1158/2159...
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Quote of the day: “If you think research is expensive, try disease.” Mary Lasker
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Excited to share our latest findings! 🫁 Dynamic BH3 profiling predicts ALK-TKI response in NSCLC, revealing new therapeutic combos to overcome resistance. Read the summary here: web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
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New advances in the fight against the most common form of lung cancer
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Excited to share our latest findings! 🫁 Dynamic BH3 profiling predicts ALK-TKI response in NSCLC, revealing new therapeutic combos to overcome resistance. Congratulations to Dr. Martín and to all our collaborators @ub.edu @ibecbarcelona.eu @hospitalclinic.bsky.social CIBERBBN rdcu.be/eennu
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Novel selective strategies targeting the BCL-2 family to enhance clinical efficacy in ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer
Cell Death & Disease - Novel selective strategies targeting the BCL-2 family to enhance clinical efficacy in ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Do not miss this great talk tomorrow at 5pm CET (12pm EDT): Zinaida Perova (EMBL) "Leveraging CancerModels.Org: Enhancing Precision Oncology Through Collaborative Cancer Model Resources". @thesfpm.bsky.social www.sfpm.io/seminars
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women’s day to all the brave, intelligent, loving, amazing women worldwide!
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚀 Exciting news! Our new research lab website is live! 🌐 Explore cutting-edge projects, publications, and more. Visit us at themonterolab.com
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The Montero Lab at the University of Barcelona's Department of Biomedical Sciences is dedicated to exploring the biology of cancer metastasis.
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Cristina Muñoz Pinedo @crismunozp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Papers on cell death from January 2025 Caspases, pyroptosis, apoptosis, cytotoxicity, ferroptosis, necroptosis, Bcl-2 family and more! ApoList celldeath.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/a...
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ApoList – January 2025
Caspases TIR signaling activates caspase-like immunity in bacteria – François Rousset, Ilya Osterman, Tali Scherf, Alla H. Falkovich, Azita Leavitt, Gil Amitai, Sapir Shir, Sergey Malitsky, M…
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
On #WorldCancerDay #WCD2025 and every day, our lab is committed to finding a cure for cancer through groundbreaking research and advanced functional precision medicine. Together, we can find a treatment for each patient and beat cancer @ub.edu @thesfpm.bsky.social
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The Society for Functional Precision Medicine @thesfpm.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
An exciting multicenter phase 2 functional precision medicine clinical trial showing how a rapid ex vivo venetoclax sensitivity assay was the strongest predictor for a favorable treatment response and survival in relapsed/refractory secondary AML ashpublications.org/blood/articl...
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Ex vivo venetoclax sensitivity predicts clinical response in acute myeloid leukemia in the prospective VenEx trial
Key PointsBlast-specific ex vivo venetoclax sensitivity correlated strongly with treatment responses and predicted longer survival.VenEx trial showed that
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Universitat de Barcelona @ub.edu · 22/01/2025
#RecercaUB | 🔬 Un estudi liderat per la #UniBarcelona descriu un mecanisme per eliminar les cèl·lules perjudicials originades per tractaments oncològics 📷 Dirigeix el treball Joan Montero. La primera autora és Clara Alcon, tots dos de @medicinacs-ub.bsky.social. 👉 web.ub.edu/web/actualit...
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Descriuen un mecanisme per poder eliminar les cèl·lules perjudicials originades per tractaments oncològics
Després de tractar un tumor amb quimioteràpia i radioteràpia, es poden originar unes cèl·lules que es coneixen com a senescents. Són cèl·lules que no es divideixen, estan involucrades en el procés d’envelliment i són resistents a la mort cel·lular, però encara són actives metabòlicament en el cos humà. Quan s’hi acumulen, poden posar en risc la recuperació dels pacients. Ara, una recerca liderada per la UB descriu per primer cop un mecanisme molecular que podria impulsar el disseny d’estratègies per eliminar les cèl·lules senescents en els pacients oncològics.
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Thrilled to receive the prestigious ICREA Acadèmia award! A heartfelt thank you to everyone at @ub.edu & ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats who made this possible.
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Proud to share three papers from our lab rdcu.be/d2hUm @ub.edu , Letai lab rdcu.be/d5rb3, and R. Bernards rdcu.be/d5rjW all showing predictable mitochondrial control of senescent cell death, using BH3 profiling as a biomarker for senolytic therapy.
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HRK downregulation and augmented BCL-xL binding to BAK confer apoptotic protection to therapy-induced senescent melanoma cells
Cell Death & Differentiation - HRK downregulation and augmented BCL-xL binding to BAK confer apoptotic protection to therapy-induced senescent melanoma cells
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The Society for Functional Precision Medicine @thesfpm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Join us *tomorrow* Wednesday 12/11 @ 12:00 PM EST for our last monthly SFPM seminar of the year! Drs. Damle and Pillarisetty from @fredhutch.bsky.social will discuss tumor slice cultures as a window into the human TME. Info to join here: www.sfpm.io/seminars
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Seminars | SFPM
The SFPM Seminar series is for those interested in the use of assaying technology to further biomarker discovery, drug R&D and personalized healthcare outcomes.
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Joan Montero @joanmontero.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We have a new PhD in town! Congratulations Dr. Fernando Martín! @ub.edu
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Kristopher Sarosiek @celldeathlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We're looking for a hard working and ambitious postdoc to join our lab studying cell death in cancer, development, toxicology, neurodegeneration and beyond! We strive to maintain a diverse, inclusive and collaborative work environment. Apply now at sarosieklab.org!
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Kristopher Sarosiek's Faculty Website
Researching Cell Death
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