Lorenzo Melchor, PhD

Genetic Complexity of Quiescent Leukaemic Stem Cells

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) patients respond initially well to chemotherapy, but some relapse due to the proliferation of treatment-resistant dormant cells. We have demonstrated that leukaemia patients have different sub-clones, so no we aim to investigate which of these sub-clones contains dormant cells responsible for subsequent relapses.