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ABC newspaper has published an extensive interview with IRB Barcelona adjunt director, Joan Massagué, following the renewal of the collaboration for cancer research between IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation. Massagué explains that the focus of his research is now directed toward understanding the mechanisms that allow some tumour cells that have spread to survive chemotherapy in an effort to eliminate them before they turn dangerous again. Massagué points out that 90% of cancer deaths are caused by metastasis, the appearance of new tumours in organs different from where the original tumour appeared.
Read the interview in ABC (PDF in Spanish)
More media coverage:
El País (PDF in Spanish)
Diario Médico (PDF in Spanish)
El Correo Gallego (PDF in Spanish)
El Mundo (PDF in Spanish)
La Razón (PDF in Spanish)
La Vanguardia (PDF in Spanish)
LaVanguardia.com (PDF in Spanish)
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).
