Giuli, Maria Valeria
Mancusi, Angelica
Natiello, Bianca
Di Cristofano, Samuele
Reali, Rebecca
Pignataro, Maria Gemma
D’Andrea, Daniel
Di Magno, Laura
Nicoletti, Carmine
Giorgi, Alessandra
Macone, Alberto
Camerini, Serena
Casella, Marialuisa
Peruzzi, Giovanna
Zema, Sabrina
Canettieri, Gianluca
Tomao, Federica
Palaia, Innocenza
Pernazza, Angelina
Rustighi, Alessandra
Palermo, Rocco
Raimondo, Domenico
Monti, Alessandra
Doti, Nunzianna
d’Amati, Giulia
Del Sal, Giannino
Screpanti, Isabella
Talora, Claudio
Bellavia, Diana
Checquolo, Saula
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fondazione Roche ([Call 2024_Roche per la ricerca indipendente])
Sapienza Università di Roma (AR222181637B96CA)
Sapienza Università di Roma (RM11916B796B4F3D)
Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (PRIN-2017HWTP2K)
Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (PRIN-20223NY37M)
Fondazione AIRC per la ricerca sul cancro ETS (IG grant 22174)
Fondazione AIRC Special Program Molecular Clinical Oncology “5 permille” (22759)
Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti ([Call 2020_Anna Tramontano_under 60])
Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti ([Call 2020_under 45])
Article History
Received: 8 October 2025
Accepted: 30 January 2026
First Online: 11 February 2026
Declarations
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: The human study was approved by the ethical Committee of the Policlinico Umberto I (Rome, Italy) (n°0067/2024). Informed consent was obtained from all the subjects, and the experiments conformed to the principles set out in the WMA Declaration of Helsinki and the Department of Health and Human Services Belmont Report. For the institutional tissue bank, all patients had previously provided written informed consent indicating their authorization or refusal for the collection, storage, and research use of biological and tissue samples. All animal protocols were approved by local ethics authorities (Italian Ministry of University and Research Authorization n.199/2019-PR - PI: Saula Checquolo) and conducted in accordance with Italian Governing Law (D.lgs 26/2014). We followed the European and national regulations for the care and use of animals to protect them for experimental and other scientific purposes (D.lgs 26/2014).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.