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Interview with Eduard Batlle, coordinator of the Oncology Programme and group leader of the Colorectal Cancer laboratory at IRB, on his research that aims to discover the mechanisms behind colon cancer and understand how cancer stem cells work in order to stop them.
Batlle was recently awarded the National “Doctores Diz Pintado” Cancer Research Prize.
Read the interview in Tribuna Universitaria (PDF in Spanish)
News of the prize has been echoed by the following media:
DECYT (PDF)
Diario de Soria (PDF)
El Mundo , de Castilla y León (PDF)
El Norte de Castilla (PDF)
Salamanca 24 horas (PDF)
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).
