Researchers

DE VELASCO Marco A.

DE VELASCO Marco A.: Lecturer

Faculty	Department of Medicine
Researchmap	https://researchmap.jp/vellab

Education and Career

Academic & Professional Experience

Apr. 2023 - Today , Kindai University Faculty of Medicine Department of Gemone Biology Lecturer
2006 - Mar. 2022 , Kindai University Faculty of Medicine Genome Biology 助教

Research Activities

Research Areas

Life sciences, Tumor biology
Life sciences, Molecular biology
Life sciences, Tumor diagnostics and therapeutics
Life sciences, Urology
Life sciences, Immunology

Research Interests

Personalized therapy, Urological cancers, Tumor biology, Biomarker discovery, Immunotherapy, Molecular Targeting, Prostate cancer, Preclincal models, Preclinical Testing, 前立腺癌, 動物モデル, ノックアウトマウス, ペプチド, 腎細胞癌, 分子標的治療, ペプチドワクチン, ワクチン療法, 免疫療法, 腫瘍, 尿路上皮癌

Published Papers

Evaluation of Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase (TERT) Promoter Mutations in Photodynamic Diagnosis With 5-Aminolevulinic Acid False-Positive Sites in Non-muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
Yoshitaka Saito; Shogo Adomi; Kazuko Sakai; Marco Antonio De Velasco; Mamoru Hashimoto; Eri Banno; Yujiro Hayashi; Takafumi Minami; Kazuto Nishio; Kazutoshi Fujita
Cureus 24, Aug. 2025 , Refereed
Treatment strategies for locally advanced and metastatic urothelial carcinoma based on molecular profiles: A Review.
Mamoru Hashimoto; Ken Fukiage; Takafumi Minami; Marco Antonio De Velasco; Kazutoshi Fujita
Histology and histopathology , 18972-18972, 24, Jul. 2025 , Refereed
Comparison of genetic mutations in bladder cancers that arose following radiotherapy for prostate cancer with those in primary bladder cancers.
Shogo Adomi; Kazuko Sakai; Yurie Kura; Marco A De Velasco; Saizo Fujimoto; Shingo Toyoda; Mamoru Hashimoto; Mitsuhisa Nishimoto; Eri Banno; Yoshitaka Saito; Koichi Sugimoto; Yujiro Hayashi; Takafumi Minami; Kazuhiro Yoshimura; Hirotsugu Uemura; Kazuto Nishio; Kazutoshi Fujita
Scientific reports 15 (1) , 20495-20495, 1, Jul. 2025 , Refereed

Enhancing chemotherapy efficacy in PTEN-deficient prostate tumors with targeted AKT inhibition , Marco A De Velasco; Yurie Kura; Kazuko Sakai; Simon T Barry; Cath Eberlein; Claire Rooney; Kazuto Nishio; Kazutoshi Fujita; Hirotsugu Uemura , American Association for Cancer Research 2025 Annual Meeting , 28, Apr. 2025
Depletion of gut microbiota with broad spectrum antibiotics drives Pten-null prostate cancer growth in mice , Marco A De Velasco; Yurie Kura; Kazuko Sakai; Mitsuhisa Nishimoto; Yasunori Mori; Kazuhiro Yoshimura; Kazutoshi Fujita; Kazuto Nishio; Hirotsugu Uemura , The American Association for Cancer Research 2026 Annual Meeting , 9, Apr. 2025
Myeloid populations upregulated in prostate cancer are associated with colitis induced colorectal cancer , Yurie Kura; Marco A De Velasco; Kazuko Sakai; Mamoru Hashimoto; Syogo Adomi; Takafumi Minami; Kazuhiro Yoshimura; Kazutoshi Fujita; Kazuto Nishio; Hirotsugu Uemura , The American Association for Cancer Research 2026 Annual Meeting , 9, Apr. 2024

Identification of Precise Tumor Origin Classification Through DNA Methylation Profiling , 西尾和人; DE VELASCO Marco; 坂井和子; 倉由吏恵 , 日本がん分子標的治療学会学術集会プログラム・抄録集 , 28th , 2024
Classification of tissue origin of cancer by methylation profiling , 坂井和子; デベラスコマルコ; 三谷誠一郎; 倉由吏恵; 源周治; 波江野高大; 林秀敏; 林秀敏; 西尾和人; 西尾和人 , 日本癌学会学術総会抄録集(Web) , 83rd , 2024
ヒトおよびマウスの前立腺癌腸内細菌叢の包括的解析について(Integrative gut microbiome analysis of human and mouse prostate cancer) , 若森千怜; デベラスコ・マルコ; 倉由吏恵; 藤田和利; 坂井和子; 松下慎; 森康範; 野澤昌弘; 西本光寿; 吉村一宏; 野々村祝夫; 西尾和人; 植村天受 , 日本癌学会総会記事 , 82回 , 71 , 71 , Sep. 2023

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Validation study of a model for estimating the primary organ of cancer of unknown primary by methylation analysis of circulating tumor DNA , Kindai University
日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 腸内細菌叢によるアンドロゲンシグナル経路を介した去勢抵抗性前立腺癌進展機序の解明 , 近畿大学
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Validation study of a model to estimate the primary organ of cancer of unknown primary , Kindai University