Sonia Hermoso Durán

Centre: BIFI
Institution: University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain)
Position: Ph.D. student
E-mail: shermosd@unizar.es
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Personal statement
I did my thesis entitled “Thermal Liquid Biopsy in peripheral blood samples: classification models based on automated learning for the diagnosis and prognosis of pancreatic and colorectal oncological pathology”, under the co-direction of Dr. Olga Abian Franco and Dr. Adrián Velázquez Campoy at the University of Zaragoza, with stays at the Cancer Research Center of Marseille and at the Kolling Institute of the University of Sydney. I joined BIFI as a pre-doctoral student in 2019. Since November 2024, I have started a post-doctoral contract at the Oslo University Hospital (Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Radiation Biology), becoming an external member of BIFI.

Researcher profile identity
At present, I am an R2 level researcher. The main line of research in which I work is based on the study of prostate cancer, specifically in the study and understanding of the mechanisms of hypoxia that are developed in this pathology, which leads to resistance to radiotherapy. To this end, I work in the Clinical Radiation Biology group, led by Dr. Heidi Lyng, in a project where prostate tissue samples are analyzed using spatial transcriptomics techniques.

Why my research is important
There is an urgent need for studies to identify therapeutic targets that help cancer cells survive in hypoxic tumors. Spatial genetic analysis of histological sections allows the study of the interactions between cancer cells, hypoxia, stroma, immune cells and the overall microenvironment that promotes cancer progression. In this way, new treatments can be sought for these patients.

Know more about me and my research
– https://www.ous-research.no/lyng/