Researcher Interested in studying the Biology of Metastasis

• Best Poster ABRCMS (Joe Wingate) - ABRCMS (11/01/2019)
• UTEP Academy Distinguished Teachers - University of Texas at El Paso (05/10/2019)
• UT Academy Distinguished Teachers - UT System (05/05/2019)
• 2018 ROTA Award ($25,000) (08/01/2018-08/31/2018)
• ROTA UTEP Nominee (08/01/2017-08/31/2017)
• Best Poster ABRCMS (Student; Jonathan Prieto) (11/01/2016-11/30/2016)
• ROTA Departmental Nominee (08/01/2016-08/31/2016)
• Invited Speaker (SABC Breast Cancer Oncology Educational Session) - prIME Oncology (12/01/2015-12/31/2015)
• Physics Departmental Award for Academic & Research Excellence (12/01/2015-12/31/2015)
• Best Poster ABRCMS (Student; Diana G. Garcia) (11/01/2015-11/30/2015)
• Best TA in Biology Department (05/01/2015-05/31/2015)
• Invited Speaker - Haifa, Israel (05/01/2015-05/31/2015)
• ROTA Departmental Nominee (12/01/2014-12/31/2014)
• UTEP Nomination for ROTA teaching Award 2014 - ROTA (10/01/2014-10/31/2014)
• Invited Speaker, Zurich (Switzerland) Symposium on Translational Animal Research - - Collegium Helveticum (11/20/2013)
• SACNAS Travel Scholarship - SACNAS (10/11/2012)
• ASCB MAC Travel Award - Minorities Affairs Committee (09/25/2012)
• UTEP Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in Molecular and Cellular Biology - UTEP Dept. of Biological Sciences (05/26/2012)
• NIH Early Career Reviewer, Tumor Progression and Metastasis Study Section (02/01/2012-02/28/2012)
• 2012 ASCB MAC Junior Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellows Career Development Workshop Travel Award

• Ph D in Biology, ICRF/Kings College London (1998)
• BS in Biology, University of Bristol (1994)

• Pharmacodynamic biomarker analysis of gastrointestinal cancer patients treated with metronomic chemotherapy in the Italian COMET Trial (2023, IN PRESS) (2023), Manca et al..., Diana Prospero , Hector Padilla, Claire Perucho, Hazel Padilla, Brianna Ortega, Ryley Stewart , Magdiel Santillan, Valeria Lopez, Robert Kirken, Guido Bocci, Giulio Francia.
• A Luminex Approach to Develop an Anti-Tumor-Associated Antigen Autoantibody Panel for the Detection of Prostate Cancer in Racially/Ethnically Diverse Populations. Cancers 15 16 (2023), C Qiu, X Wang, SA Batson, CA Casiano, Giulio Francia, Jianying Zhang.
• A Luminex Approach to Develop an Anti-Tumor-Associated Antigen Autoantibody Panel for the Detection of Prostate Cancer in Racially/Ethnically Diverse Populations Cancers (Basel) . 2023 Aug 11;15(16):4064. doi: 10.3390/cancers15164064. (2023), Qiu et al, Giulio Francia, Jianying Zhang.
• Melanocortin receptor 4 as a new target in melanoma therapy: Anticancer activity of the inhibitor ML00253764 alone and in association with B-raf inhibitor vemurafenib Biochem Pharmacol. 219:115952. (2023), Orlandi et al., Giulio Francia, Guido Bocci.
• ErbB2/Her2-dependent downregulation of a cell death-promoting protein BLNK in breast cancer cells is required for 3D breast tumor growth (2022), Liu et al, Giulio Francia, Kerbel RS, Rosen KV.
• Cyclic Metronomic Chemotherapy for Pediatric Tumors: Six Case Reports and a Review of the Literature J Clin Med . 2022 May 18;11(10):2849. doi: 10.3390/jcm11102849. (2022), Carcamo, Giulio Francia.
• Impact of host stroma on the anti-tumor effects of metronomic chemotherapy. SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference: October 2022; San Juan, PR. (2022), Ronquillo, Giulio Francia.
• Impact of stromal components in tumors responding to metronomic chemotherapy. COURI Spring Symposium: April 2022; El Paso, TX (2022), Ronquillo, Giulio Francia.
• Metronomic Gemcitabine for Breast Cancer Brain Metastases. UTEP COURI August 2022. (2022), Padilla, Giulio Francia.
• The role of stroma on the anti-tumor effects of metronomic cyclophosphamide. COURI Summer Symposium: August 2022; El Paso, (2022), Ronquillo, Giulio Francia.
• Metronomic chemotherapy and anti-angiogenic drugs: Preclinical and clinical data.Anti-angiogenic Drugs as Chemosensitizers in Cancer Therapy, Vol 19 (in Press) (2021), Bocci, Giulio Francia, Serina Batson.
• Production of Monoclonal Antibodies- Tubulin, Meca32, and C44-using Cell Culture Technology ABRCMS (Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students), Virtual Conference, Nov 2021. (2021), Jazmin Corral, Giulio Francia.
• BEST Poster AWARD "Continuous Low Dose Gemcitabine Chemotherapy " ABRCMS 2021 Virtual Conference Nov 10-13 (2021), Arlene Levario, Giulio Francia.
• Production of Monoclonal Antibodies- Tubulin, Meca32, and C44-using Cell Culture Technology Symposium for Undergraduate Research Exploration, University of Texas at Austin, Oct 2021. (2021), Jazmin Corral, Giulio Francia.
• Pharmacodynamic biomarkers in metronomic chemotherapy: Multiplex cytokine measurements in gastrointestinal cancer patients Clinical and Experimental Medicine (2021), Paloma Valenzuela, Derrick Oaxaca, Teresa Di Desidero, Karla Parra, Georgialina Rodriguez, Marian M. Manciu, Giacomo Allegrini, Alfredo Falcone, , Guido Bocci, Robert A. Kirken, , Giulio Francia.
• Pharmacodynamic biomarkers in metronomic chemotherapy: multiplex cytokine measurements in gastrointestinal cancer patients Clin Exp Med. 2021 Feb;21(1):149-159. doi: 10.1007/s10238-020-00666-9. (2021), Valenzuela P et al, Oaxaca D, Parra K, Kirken RA, Giulio Francia.
• Development of a VLP-Based Vaccine Displaying an xCT Extracellular Domain for the Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer Cancers (Basel) . 2020 Jun 8;12(6):1492. doi: 10.3390/cancers12061492. (2020), Rolih V et al, Giulio Francia, Cavallo, F.
• Synergistic activity of linifanib and irinotecan increases the survival of mice bearing orthotopically implanted human anaplastic thyroid cancer Am J Cancer Res . 2020 Jul 1;10(7):2120-2127. eCollection 2020. (2020), Banchi M et al, Giulio Francia, Bocci, G.
• Pre-clinical Evaluation of Gemcitabine’s efficacy in treating Breast Cancer Brain Metastases NIH Diversity Program Consortium (2020), Wingate, Giulio Francia.
• Pharmacological effects of vinorelbine in combination with lenvatinib in anaplastic thyroid cancer Pharmacol Res. 2020 Aug;158:104920. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2020.104920. Epub 2020 May 24. (2020), Di Desidero et al, Cayme G, Giulio Francia, Bocci, G.
• Overexpression of p62/IMP2 can promote cell migration in hepatocellular carcinoma via activating Wnt/β-catenin pathway. Cancers 12 1 (2020), Mengtao Xing, Xiao Wang, Jitian Li, Xiaojun Zhang, Yangcheng Ma, Giulio Francia, Jianying Zhang.
• Overexpression of p62/IMP2 can Promote Cell Migration in Hepatocellular Carcinoma via Activation of the Wnt/ β-Catenin Pathway Cancers (Basel). 2019 Dec 18;12(1):7. doi: 10.3390/cancers12010007. (2019), Mengtao Xing, Giulio Francia, Jianying Zhang.
• Intracranial breast cancer model (2019), Joseph Wingate et al, Giulio Francia.

• A Luminex Approach to Develop an Anti-Tumor-Associated Antigen Autoantibody Panel for the Detection of Prostate Cancer. (2024), Volume UTEP, C Qiu, X Wang, SA Batson, CA Casiano, Giulio Francia, Jianying Zhang.
• Using Luminex approach to develop a panel of anti-TAA autoantibodies for the detection of prostate cancer. (2023), Volume Orlando, FL, C Qiu, X Wang, SA Batson, CA Casiano, Giulio Francia, Jianying Zhang.
• Impact of gemcitabine chemotherapy regimens on breast cancer brain metastases (2020), Levario, Giulio Francia.
• AAA12 Paclitaxel Directed Screening to identify novel anti-cancer drugs (2020), Wingate J, Diana Gonzalez et al, Giulio Francia.
• From Experimental therapeutics to Paclitaxel directed drug screening (2019), Giulio Francia.
• Devising therapeutic strategies for metastatic breast cancer (2019), Giulio Francia.
• Overexpression of p62/IMP2 can promote cell migration in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) via activating Wnt/β-catenin pathway. (2019), Volume Atlanta, Georgia, Mengtao Xing, Giulio Francia, Jianying Zhang.
• Overexpression of p62/IMP2 can promote cell migration in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) via activating Wnt/β-catenin pathway. (2019), Volume Atlanta, Georgia, Mengtao Xing, Giulio Francia, Jianying Zhang.
• Novel Drug Identification for Biomarker Tagged Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells to Study Pre-clinical Brain Metastases (2019), Wingate, J et al, Giulio Francia.
• Surgical involvement in Colorectal Cancer in Mice Models and the Effects of Gemcitabine in Colorectal Metastasis (2019), Sanchez E et al, Giulio Francia.

• SC1 SCORE : The role of breast cancer organ specific metastasis on the therapeutic impact of anti-cancer drugs
• Single cell RNA sequencing
• Paclitaxel Directed Drug Screening; a new strategy to identify anti-cancer drugs (SC2 SCORE)