The first Evomet Annual Meeting was held in Barcelona in November and included seminars and workshops, as well as networking activities.
Organised so far by PhD students and postdoctoral researchers at IRB Barcelona, RIMLS, CPR and SEMM, the ENABLE conferences will be funded by FEBS and IUBMB, which guarantee the continuity of future gatherings. The 2022, 2023 and 2025 conferences will be held in Europe while the 2024 event will be held outside Europe.
Funded under the Science with and for Society Programme of Horizon 2020, ENABLECARES will deliver high-level training in open science, entrepreneurship and other relevant transferable skills to young scientists in Europe. Building on the expertise of IRB Barcelona's Innovation Department and Radboud University on entrepreneurship and Open Science, ENABLECARES will implement two training curricula in these subjects (nodes) at all four partners through co-creation and Train-the-Trainers strategies.
IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation organised the Barcelona Biomed Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer with the participation of international experts.
The role of cancer stem cells is one of the most relevant lines of research in the world in the fight against the disease.
The international conference provided new data on how to overcome chemotherapy resistance and how to prevent metastases.
In 2021, a number of scientists at IRB Barcelona have been acknowledged through different awards. Here we highlight four of them: