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Roger Gomis, ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona, speaks about cancer research on the day the Spanish Association Against Cancer collects donations for research from the public.
In an interview on Radio 5 News, the IRB scientist remarks that "20 years can pass between a discovery to the development of a treatment, but without this first breakthrough there would be no new future drug". For Gomis, prevention, surgery, chemotherapy, and research are the key factors in the fight against cancer.
Regarding the most innovative lines of research, Gomis highlights genomics and personalised medicine in immunotherapy and metastasis, "We are going to see many breakthroughs in these three lines of research, such as treatments for the prevention of metastasis."
Listen to the interview on RNE (length: 9' 24")
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).
