2011

If environmental conditions of tumors are changed, the process reverses The study is led by Manel Esteller Like snakes, tumour cells shed their skin. Cancer is not a static disease but during its development the disease accumulates changes to evade natural defences adapting to new environmental circumstances, protecting against chemotherapy and radiotherapy and invading neighbouring organs, eventually causing metastasis. Article reference

The University of Barcelona maintains its position in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2011 (ARWU) published this August.

The tobacco consumption survey shows that over 25% of staff is smoker and almost half of them think about quit it someday Under the Smoke-free IDIBELL program, offered by the institute through ICO’s Control Tobacco Unit to all workers who want to quit smoking, it has been performed a poll to assess what is the snuff prevalence among IDIBELL staff and if all workers know about this support program. Quit smoking The poll

Published on PLoS ONE IDIBELL researchers have shown that several brain regions known as the Default Mode Network have activity at rest and when we induce a task, this network is disabled. Emotional or cognitive tasks Article’s reference

IDIBELL researchers show that methylation of FOXP3 factor controls Regulatory T cell immunosuppressive function A study of the Nephrology and Renal Transplantation research group of the IDIBELL demonstrates that renal transplant patients who present regulatory T cells with high expression of FOXP3 factor demethylated, both in blood or directly into the transplanted organ, have a better functional outcome of the graft. Article’s reference

Meeting of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM) International Pharma Licensing Symposium (IPLS). ICC on Genomic Imprinting and Beyond. Medevice Exhibition and Biomaterials Conference. RECOMB 2011. Salón Internacional de la Química. Expoquimia. European Cancer Cluster Partening (ECCP) Interbio Summer School on Structural Biology “NMR applicactions in Protein Reseach”. Biotechnica. BIO-Europe (17th Annual International Partneting Conference). F Medica. Technology Summit & Technology Platform .

The subprogram of non-oriented basic research projects of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) will fund 20 projects IDIBELL with about three million Euros, according to the preliminary resolution.

The finding may enable progress towards personalized treatments in these kinds of tumors Inhibition of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) impairs the growth of liver tumor cells and makes them sensitive to the suppressive action of the cytokine TGF-beta, by activating mechanisms of programmed death (apoptosis). This is the result of research conducted by researchers from the Biological clues of the invasive and metastatic phenotype group at IDIBELL, led by Isabel Fabregat. Dual role of TGF – beta Article reference

The Research Results Transfer Office (OTRI) and the Research Support Office (ORS) IDIBELL launches new space after the renovations. The renewed OTRI nearly doubles its space from about 70m2 to 135m2 and has more actual daylight. It is structured in three different areas: one for competitive projects, another for non competitive ones and a new meeting room.