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The European Research Council awards 45 scientists with grants to commercialize their research results
The grant, worth up to €150,000, cover costs of activities to verify the innovation potential of Nebreda’s ERC Advanced Grant-funded project
Nebreda will study new breast cancer therapies
ICREA Research professor, Angel R. Nebreda, group leader of the Signalling and Cell Cycle Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant, announced the European Research Council (ERC) yesterday. The grant comes with €150,000 for 18 months and will cover costs of activities to verify the innovation potential of an ERC Advanded Grant-funded project, called “P38 Cancer”, given to Nebreda in 2011.
Nebreda’s Proof of Concept grant is entitled “P38 Cure”, and it aims to investigaate new breast cancer therapies based on available p38 MAPK inhibitors. “Our lab results support a potential therapeutic use for p38 MAPK inhibitors in combination with chemotherapy drugs”, says Nebreda.
The researchers will use patient-derived samples of specific breast cancer subtypes for preclinical validation of a new drug combination therapy with potential benefit to patients. “This is a straightforward project with potentially tremendous socioeconomic benefits”, explains Nebreda.
The total budget of the 2015 Proof of Concept competition is € 20 million, of which €6.7 million is earmarked for this first round. 6 researchers working in Spain -5 of them in centres in Catalonia- have received an ERC PoC support.
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).
