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The December issue of Forbes published an interview with Elena Sancho, associate researcher at IRB Barcelona. Sancho explains her work on colon cancer investigation undertaken in the Colorectal Cancer Lab, headed by Eduard Batlle, and on the development of a diagnostic test to detect patients with a high risk of colon cancer relapse.
Sancho also talks about the need to maintain funding for research in order to create wealth and wellbeing in Spain and calls for the commitment of great fortunes to upholding and promoting science. The researcher from Madrid also explains that we should lose our fear of cancer and do early detection tests because “30% of tumours can be prevented by taking appropriate measures.”
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About IRB Barcelona
The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
