2016

Therapeutic RANK inhibition reduces breast cancer recurrence

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Researchers at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Bellvitge (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Eva Gonzalez-Suarez, have shown that pharmacological and genetic inhibition of signaling pathway RANK / RANKL leads to a significant reduction in recurrences and metastases in breast cancer in a mouse animal model. Their findings, published in Cancer Research, suggest that RANK inhibitors […]

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Dr. Conxi Lázaro is awarded the Theodor Schwann Prize for his research in the field of neurofibromatosis

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Dr. Conxi Lázaro, director of the Molecular Diagnostic Unit of the ICO-IDIBELL Hereditary Cancer Program, has received the prestigious Theodor Schwann prize awarded by the European Association of Neurofibromatosis. This award is named after the German physiologist who identified the cells responsible for tumors present in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1, the Schwann cells. Dr.

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Catalonia’s Parliament awards its medal of honor to IDIBELL’s researcher Manel Esteller

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Catalonia’s parliament has given today, as part of the celebration of the National Day of Catalonia, the medal of honor in the category of gold to Dr. Manel Esteller, “for his career as a Catalan physician and researcher of international reference”. During the ceremony, the president Carmen Forcadell, and the president of the Generalitat, Carles

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Alvaro Aytes receives one of 60 grants from the BBVA Foundation for researchers and creators

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With this initiative, the BBVA Foundation promotes individual effort for the collective benefit of professionals in an intermediate stage of his career and who have demonstrated high productivity and innovativeness the BBVA Foundation has awarded one of the Grants for Researchers and Cultural Creators

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Manel Esteller, Joan Massagué and Josep Baselga are awarded the Catalunya International Prize

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The oncologists Manel Esteller, Joan Massagué and Josep Baselga are the winners of the 28th Catalunya International Prize “for his revolutionary task, especially on oncology research, with what they significantly contributed to the advances of global medicine”. The awards, recently announced by the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government), Carles Puigdemont, are given

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New IDSA/ATS guidelines say less antibiotics for hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated pneumonia

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Dr Jordi Carratalà, IDIBELL researcher, is a member of the international panel that created these new guidelines published by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society.

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