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Participants of the “Crazy About Biomedicine” 2017 course.
Institutional
24 secondary school students start the 5th “Crazy About Biomedicine” course
Examples of computationally designed proteins made of curved beta-sheets and helices forming cavities with different sizes and shapes (E.Marcos, IRB Barcelona-UW)
Scientific - Published in Science
Scientists reveal how to computationally design artificial proteins for novel applications
Ectopic wings upon ectopic activation of JAK/STAT (Carles Recasens-Alvarez and Ana Ferreira, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Nature Communications
The fly reveals a new signal involved in limb growth
Salvador Aznar Benitah, head of the IRB Barcelona group "Stem Cells and Cancer". (Photo: Battista-Minocri, IRB)
Institutional
Salvador Aznar Benitah receives an award for his research on cancer
Despite the expanding repertoire of new anti-cancer agents, treatment failure remains a major challenge in the management of most advanced solid tumours, including breast cancer.
Innovation - Published in Cancer Research
Bioinformatics brings to light new combinations of drugs to fight breast cancer
Patrick Aloy, ICREA Research Professor & ERC Consolidator Grant.
Institutional
Patrick Aloy: “The whole is more than the sum of its parts”
Iproteos is currently performing the regulatory preclinical phase of its drug candidate for CIAS treatment.
Innovation
A study reveals the effectiveness of a cognitive enhancer for schizophrenia treatment
Group leader Salvador Aznar Benitah and first author Gloria Pascual in the Stem Cells and Cancer lab at the IRB Barcelona (M. Minocri, IRB Barcelona)
Innovation - Published in Nature
Tumour cells are dependent on fat to start metastasis
Representation of a Smad protein 3D structure. In red, the most common mutations in lung cancer (M. Macias lab, IRB Barcelona)
Institutional - 29th Barcelona Biomed Conference
Structural biologists endorse the potential of their field to extract quality information from “big data”

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