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Carmen Guerra

Carmen Guerra

Staff Scientist at CNIO, Co-Senior Author

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The race to drug KRAS in pancreatic cancer

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Active researcher on triple therapy development

For 40 years, the KRAS gene has been oncology's white whale—present in 90% of pancreatic cancers, yet resistant to every drug thrown at it. Scientists called it 'undruggable.' On January 28, 2026, Spanish researchers published results showing they had achieved what decades of effort could not: complete and lasting tumor elimination in mice using a triple-drug combination that blocks KRAS and two downstream pathways simultaneously.

Updated Jan 30