The bimonthly magazine Clinical OMICs interviews Patrick Aloy, ICREA researcher and leader of the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology lab at IRB Barcelona, about his study published in the journal Cancer Research. Patrick Aloy talks about his work as a leader of team that uses bioinformatics approaches to uncover new drug combinations for the treatment of breast cancer.
The seventh video in the series Meet Our Scientists, "Networks of Life", presents the work performed by Patrick Aloy. Watch the video (Subtitles available in Spanish, Catalan and English).
El Mundo newspaper has published an article on a study by the University of Basel (Switzerland) that has found a way to separate the tumour cells that circulate in blood in groups and to prevent them from forming metastases. In this regard, they include the opinion of Roger Gomis, ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona: "(This study) allows us to understand how to handle the aggregated cells that initiate the tumour, but now we need more effective and clinically optimal compounds.
Tot Barcelona, e-notícies and El Plural have published an interview with Begoña Cánovas, a postdoctoral researcher at IRB Barcelona, who, thanks to a grant from "la Caixa", has been part of the team of researchers that detected the protein that fuels the survival of a type of breast cancer. "The day they gave me the first fellowship, I couldn’t believe it. I felt great and my parents jumped for joy when they found out. When you see all the applications, you feel like it's a lottery and you think you have no chance of winning, but it's worth trying, "said Cánovas.
Modesto Orozco’s lab has published a paper in Chemical Communications about a therapeutic tool to prevent treatment resistance in breast cancer.
The tool has been tested in tumour cells in vitro and will now need to be tested in animal models before moving on to the development of a valid treatment for patients.
