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Víctor Volpini, elected new vice-president of the Spanish Association of Human Genetics (AEGH)
The election took place last March 31 during the assembly of the association which was held under the XXVI Congress of Human Genetics. AEGH is a scientific association integrated per most Spanish geneticists. Founded in 1974, has over 500 members, specialists in various branches of human genetics in clinical, research and teaching fields. Among its […]
Presentation of the Spanish Association of Neurogenetics (Neurogenes)
Spain has about two million people affected by neurogenetic diseases. The small number of patients and the complexity of these diseases demands a multidisciplinary approach among professionals in the genetics of nervous system, neuroscientists, neuropediatrics, etc.. In order to integrate these professionals into a single entity is born the Spanish Association of Neurogenetics. This integration […]
IDIBELL participates in ‘Salo de l’Ensenyament’
The 38 research centers ACER members have shared the stand with the aim of showing young people the research in several areas as a career. During the five-day fair became apparent that in Catalonia there are centers in various disciplines who conduct a high level research. The ACER is an independent association that brings together […]
Javier Magriñá: “Maybe, in the future, robots would be the only workers at operating rooms”
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Manel Esteller bestowed with the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) Award Lecture
Manel Esteller has authored more than two-hundred seventy original articles and has placed epigenetics in the forefront of cancer biology. He is the Director of the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC) of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), an ICREA Research Professor and Genetics Professor in the School of Medicine of the University of […]
IDIBELL researcher Oriol Casanovas publishes a commentary about anti-angiogenic therapies in Journal of Clinical Investigation
Casanovas stresses that these findings may be very clinically relevant, and that therapies that combine inhibition of more than one angiogenic pathway might be useful in circumventing resistance. In late 2010, the agency Thomson Reuters, in its report Science Watch, stressed a study coordinated by Oriol Casanovas about the negative consequences of antiangiogenic therapies as […]
Isabel Fabregat, elected new president of the Spanish Society of Cell Biology
SEBC is a professional association, opens to cell Biology professionals, that was founded in 1984 with the objectives of promoting the development of this specialty, to facilitate scientific exchange with the international scientific community by organizing courses and conferences and promoting the Spanish participation at international meetings.