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IRB Barcelona PhD student Marcos Fernández is one of three researchers featured in the article published today in El Mundo, following Friday's ceremony in Madrid, where 68 young scientists received their "la Caixa" doctoral fellowships.
Since the end of 2016, this 25-year old Madrid native has been working towards his PhD degree in the Translational Control of Cell Cycle and Differentiation lab led by ICREA researcher Raúl Méndez. Marcos is studying protein synthesis in several types of tumours.
"I was considering going abroad, but this fellowship was a good incentive to stay," affirms Marcos in the article.
Read the article: http://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2017/07/24/59725037e2704e004c8b4610.html
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).
