BLANCA Project
Genomic technology to generate a vaccine against cancer
The BLANCA project aims to develop vaccines for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer and the most prevalent liver cancer, hepatocarcinoma (HCC). Both are poor prognosis tumors in which there is some response to immunotherapy, but which needs to improve.
In order to find the information to develop the vaccine we will analyze massive data from cancer patients using cutting-edge technology. This next-generation vaccine will combine nanoparticles and RNA, very similar to some of the coronavirus vaccines. After producing the vaccine, we will validate its efficacy in animal models.
Public-private consortium
The challenge of developing a vaccine faced by BLANCA requires a multidisciplinary team that must work in a coordinated manner to analyze, develop, compare and optimize each step of the process and transfer the resulting product to the rest of the partners.
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Coordinator and partners
BLANCA project participants
Project coordinator:
- FIMA through Cima Universidad de Navarra
Project partners:
- Clínica Universidad de Navarra
- Navarra Hospital Complex
- Miguel Servet Foundation through Navarrabiomed
- Bionanoplus
- Asociación SARAY
- ADItech
- NASERTIC
Objectives of the BLANCA project
Using genomic data to generate a cancer vaccine
To diagnose, recruit, obtain and store samples
from patients with triple negative breast cancer or HCC.
To develop next-generation technology that allows
sequencing of the general and single cell tumor transcriptome, the traducciome and the ligandome.
Implement bioinformatics to identify
the transcriptome in single cells, integrate multi-omics data, and obtain a collection of tumor epitopes.
To validate the immunogenicity of the epitopes , develop stable RNAs and nanoparticles
and demonstrate the antitumor efficacy of the RNA vaccine in mouse models.
To promote the translation of the resulting personalized medicine strategy.
BLANCA Project participants
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- Gorka Lasheras
- Gonzalo Etayo
- Cristina Marzal
- Jorge Jiménez
