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COMBACTE-MAGNET, an European project to promote the development of antibiotics in Europe
34 European academic partners and 5 pharmaceutical companies are launching a new project, COMBACTE-MAGNET, under the IMI AMR research programme New Drugs 4 Bad Bugs (ND4BB). ND4BB has been launched to stimulate antibiotic development in Europe. COMBACTE-MAGNET (Combating Bacterial Resistance in Europe – Molecules against Gram-Negative Infections) will bring highly innovative studies and activities related […]
Epigenetics for all audiences
María Berdasco explained as in recent decades we have gone from thinking that everything was written in our DNA, in our genome to realize that also have to consider epigenenome. “Epigenetics explains why organisms and people genetically identical as identical twins do not behave exactly the same.” Berdasco has explained that “these differences have much […]
Catalan Health Department promotes healthy habits to reduce cancer risk
Health Department has introduced the new European Code Against Cancer on the occasion of the celebration of World Cancer Day on February 4th. The forecast for 2015 is that 39,898 new cases of cancer (23,636 in men and 16,262 in women) will be diagnosed in Catalonia. It is the leading cause of death in men […]
Discovered a possible new therapeutic strategy against a very aggressive infant bone cancer
Inhibition of Sirtuin 1 is proposed as new treatment for metastatic Ewing sarcoma In Zebrafish models it reduces the proliferation or migration ability of tumor cells Ewing’s Sarcoma The mechanism Article reference
Carolina Garcia-Vidal, 2015 ESCMID Young Investigator Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
The prize is awarded by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) for best European young researcher in this field in recognition of his/her career. This is the first time the award is given to a Catalan researcher who also performs his research in Catalonia. The award ceremony will take place on […]
Manel Esteller wins the first edition of ‘El Llobregat’ Awards
The director of the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program at IDIBELL, professor at the University of Barcelona and ICREA researcher, Manel Esteller, has been awarded the first edition of ‘El Llobregat’ Awards. The ceremony awards ceremony was held on January 19 at Feria Hotel de L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. The awards collected six different categories. The […]
The IDIAP Jordi Gol and the IDIBELL seek common research projects
On January 20 the small hall of the University Hospital of Bellvitge (HUB) hosted the first joint meeting between researchers from the Institute for Research in primary care Jordi Gol (IDIAP) and the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute. The purpose of this meeting is to seek synergies between the two institutions and try to coordinate collaborative […]
New animal models faithfully reproduce the tumor of each patient
The implementation of patient cancer cells in the same organ of mice can reproduce very accurately the tumor evolution and malignancy Ortotopic models