New cancer models of lymphoma tumors

In collaboration with physicians at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), under the direction of Drs. Albert Santamaria-Martínez and Elisa Oricchio have created a novel remedy: the lymphoid model. Thanks to this sophisticated ex vivo model, the tumor’s architecture, cellular variety, and microenvironments—essential elements sometimes lost in conventional models—can be preserved in lymphoma tissue fragments outside the body for a few days.