2024
European Research Council – Consolidator Grant (DORMATRIX)
Project: “Engineering cancer dormancy as a collective emergent phenomenon: from matrix-enabled dormancy to collective dormancy-on-a-chip”
Principal investigator
Proyectos coordinados AECC 2024 – Spanish Association for Cancer Research
Project: “MetEND – Decoding Metastasis-ENDothelial co-dependencies in bone”
Co-PI together with R. Gomis (coordinator, Institute for Research in Biomedicine), M. Graupera (Institut Josep Carreras) and S. Servitja (IMIM-Hospital del Mar).
2023
Basque Government Call ELKARTEK
Project: „Desarrollo de materiales biocatalíticos para su aplicación en bioeconomía y biomedicina“
PI in consortium led by CIC biomaGUNE
AECC Postdoctoral 2023 – Spanish Association for Cancer Research
Project: “Breast cancer dormancy and bone metastasis: bioinspired 3D models for the study of cell-extracellular matrix interaction as a strategy to find new therapies”
Granted to Dr. Oihane Mitxelena. Supervisor Dr. Amaia Cipitria.
2022
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2021-123013OB-I00)
Project: “Bioinspired biomaterials to model cell-extracellular matrix interaction in breast cancer dormancy and bone metastasis”
Principal investigator
LAB AECC 2022 – Spanish Association for Cancer Research
Project: “Targeting dormant disseminated cancer cells to prevent metastatic relapse: biomaterial-based 3D bioengineered models for novel therapies”
Principal Investigator
CIC biomaGUNE Research Support Program & Investigo Program Next Generation EU
Project: “3D-printed breast cancer metastasis models: Organotypic platforms to monitor disease progression and treatment (3D-BCMets)”
Co-PI together with Dr. Dorleta Jiménez de Aberasturi (CIC biomaGUNE)
Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa – Gipuzkoa Fellow Program
Project: „Development of patient avatars for the study of metastatic invasion in breast cancer and research of personalized advanced therapies“
Granted to Dr. Naike Salvador Moreno. Supervisor and co-fund by Dr. Amaia Cipitria.
Basque Government Call RIS3
Project: „Advanced hydrogels for the delivery of CAR-T therapies in solid tumors“
Coordinator of consortium and principal investigator
Max Planck Queensland Center (MPQC)
Max Planck Queensland Center (MPQC) for “Exploring the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices”
Associate researcher, research sub-topic „Human ECM“
2021
Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science
Ikerbasque Research Associate leading the group “Bioengineering in Regeneration and Cancer“ at Biodonostia Health Research Institute, San Sebastián, Spain
DFG (German Research Foundation) Collaborative Research Center CRC 1444
Project: „Directed cellular self-organization for advancing bone regeneration“
Subproject: “Hydrogels with spatial patterning of biophysical and biochemical properties to guide osteogenesis”
Co-PI together with colleagues at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Free University Berlin, Deutsche Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Zuse Institute Berlin, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke and Wyss Institute for Biological Inspired Engineering.
2020
Horizon 2020 – Regenerative medicine: from new insights to new applications
Project: „HEALIKICK – A modular strategy for the repair of critical sized bone fractures“
Co-PI together with University of Glasgow (UK), Histocell S.L. (Spain), Universidad de Navarra (Spain) and University of Strathclyde (UK).
Doctoral grant International Max Planck Research School on Multiscale Bio-Systems
Project: “Game Theory of Cancer Dormancy and Bone Metastasis”
Granted to Anna‐Dorothea Heller, Co-PI together with Dr. Angelo Valleriani.
Project: “Message in a vesicle: Intercellular communication through extracellular vesicles”
Granted to Nicky Tam, Co-PI together with Dr. Rumiana Dimova.
2019
Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers
Project: “Harnessing changes in bone ultrastructure in multiple myeloma: an ex vivo clinical study”
Granted to Dr. Inés Moreno-Jiménez, Co-PI together with Prof. Dr. med. Franziska Jundt.
2018
Doctoral grant International Max Planck Research School on Multiscale Bio-Systems
Project: “Biophysical cues in cancer cell dormancy”
Granted to Hubert Taïeb, Co-PI together with Dr. Tom Robinson and Dr. Luca Bertinetti.
2017
DFG (German Research Foundation) Emmy-Noether grant (CI 203/2-1)
Project: “Extracellular matrix biophysical cues in dormancy and bone metastasis”
Principal investigator
Einstein Center Regenerative Therapies (ECRT), Research grant and Kickbox seed grant
Project:“Role of mechanics and tissue architecture in pancreatic cancer and postoperative complications“.
Co-PI together with Dr. Lippens and Dr. med. Schmuck.
We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the following organizations for previous support.
