The newspaper "ARA" reports on the award of the XI Francisco Cobos Foundation Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research to ICREA researcher Eduard Batlle, coordinator of the Oncology Programme and head of the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at IRB Barcelona.
The article also includes the jury's acknowledgment of his contribution to knowledge of colorectal cancer and the potential of his research to generate new treatments and diagnostic tools for this disease.
Selected Media Mentions
Link to Diari ARA
Link to La Vanguardia
Nine scientists at IRB Barcelona form part of EMBO, an organisation that comprises more than 1,800 outstanding researchers from Europe and around the world specialised in molecular biology.
“This will allow me to strengthen interactions with other European researchers, as well as to stay abreast of new ideas, concepts and technologies,” says Aznar Benitah.
El Economista, Cuatro, Geriatricarea, among other media, have published articles about the award received by Manuel Serrano, head of the Cellular Plasticity and Disease Lab at IRB Barcelona, for his work "Tissue damage and senescence provide critical signals for cell reprogramming in vivo".
Link to El Economista
Sergi Ferrer-Salat, president of the Board of Trustees of the Ferrer Research Foundation, highlighted that the work done by IRB Barcelona scientist, Manuel Serrano, is helping to further our understanding of the relation between ageing and cancer and identify approaches to manipulate this relation to our advantage.
