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

  1. Clonal Complexity Defines Distinct Tumor‐Intrinsic Biology and Prognosis in Diffuse Large B‐Cell Lymphoma
    Takahiro Haeno; Kazuko Sakai; Shuji Minamoto; Daiki Nakatsu; Marco A. De Velasco; Shinya Rai; Hirokazu Tanaka; Itaru Matsumura; Kazuto Nishio
    Cancer Medicine  Feb. 2026  , Refereed
  2. 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
  3. 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

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Conference Activities & Talks

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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

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MISC

  1. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE GUT MICROBIOTA OF HORMONE-SENSITIVE PROSTATE CANCER AND CASTRATIONRESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER IN JAPANESE MEN , Saizo Fujimoto; Koji Hatano; Eri Banno; Daisuke Motooka; Marco A. De Velasco; Yurie Kura; Shingo Toyoda; Mamoru Hashimoto; Shogo Adomi; Takafumi Minami; Kazuhiro Yoshimura; Toshiki Oka; Junya Hata; Makoto Matsushita; Tetsuya Takao; Shingo Takada; Akira Tsujimura; Yasuyuki Kojima; Wataru Obara; Shota Nakamura; Hirotsugu Uemura; Norio Nonomura; Kazutoshi Fujita , JOURNAL OF UROLOGY , 213 , 5S , May. 2025
  2. 免疫組織学的染色により転移性去勢感受性前立腺癌の予後を予測する , 西本光寿; 西本光寿; デベラスコ マルコ; 山本豊; 藤本西蔵; 明石泰典; 豊田信吾; 橋本士; 南高文; 平山暁秀; 吉村一宏; 藤田和利 , 泌尿器科分子・細胞研究会プログラム・抄録集 , 34th , 2025
  3. 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

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Research Grants & Projects

  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Evaluation of the tumor microimmune environment using mouse models of prostate cancer , Kindai University
  2. 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
  3. 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

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