Gomis has explained that in the complex process of metastasis was seen “more genes that attenuate the expression of genes than overexpressed gens” so they research these gens in their laboratory and try to identify therapeutic targets for combating metastasis. MetLab leader stressed the importance of studying metastasis, “not as a natural process that occurs by chance but as a process in a patient receiving treatment” and stressed the importance of taking into account the cell biology tumor, but “also the cells of their surroundings, the journey that makes these cells to spread and to grow in hostile territory.”

About Roger Gomis

Dr. Roger Gomis is an ICREA researcher and a member of the Oncology Program at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona. He received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Barcelona in 2002, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Prof. Joan Massagué’s laboratory. He leads the MetLab (tumoral metastasis laboratory) at IRBB. His group is interested in investigating how growth factors, signaling pathways and gene expression programs control normal cell proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells.