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Eduard Batlle: "We are starting to understand the basis of colon cancer metastasis"

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Long interview in the Programme Eureka, RNE, with Eduard Batlle, group leader of the Colorectal Cancer Lab and ICREA researcher. During the conversation, Eduard Batlle talks about the advancement in the research, about prevention and new diagnoses, and the therapeutic tools that are being developed. Colon cancer is the second type of cancer in the world, both in number of patients and deaths.

Listen to the interview with Eduard Batlle in Eureka (from minute 7.00 to minute 23.45)

Escuchar audioEureka - Horizonte 2020: financiación europea para la investigación científica - 20/11/13

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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).