The radio programme Te doy mi palabra broadcasted by Onda Cero has referred to a study by ICREA researcher Salvador Aznar Benitah. Published in Nature in December 2016, the research revealed that consuming certain fats stimulates metastasis. Aznar Benitah’s team reached this conclusion after examining the effect of dietary fatty acid intake in mice.
Link to Te doy mi palabra (Onda Cero)
TV3 has reported on the campaign "Legado Solidario", an initiative involving 25 organisations, among them IRB Barcelona. In the report, Francesc Posas, director of the institute, talks about the bequest of 1.5 € million the centre received last year to support cancer research and metastasis.
Link to TV3
The digital newspaper Público and other media have echoed a study headed by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and involving researchers from the Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Programme at IRB Barcelona that offers a promising advance towards a treatment for Parkinson’s disease,.
The economic newpaper Expansión reports on the 20th anniversary of the Barcelona Science Park (Parque Científico de Barcelona (PCB). In the article, it mentions that, in addition to hosting biomedical start-ups like Oryzon Genomics, PaloBiofarma, Som Biotech and Kymos Pharma, it is also home to prestigious organisations such as the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC), and large companies linked to innovation, such as Esteve and Grupo Ordesa.
