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The award is given by the AECC in recognition of Massagué’s contributions to understanding cancer metastasis
Researcher Joan Massagué, adjunct director of IRB Barcelona, receives today the “V de Vida” award for science, given by the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC). Massagué will receive the prize from the Princess of Asturias Letizia Ortiz in a formal act in Zaragoza, during which he will deliver a lecture entitled “Myths and challenges in cancer research.”
The “V de Vida” award recognizes Massagué’s discoveries in cancer metastasis. The AECC brings together patients, families, volunteers and professionals who work to prevent cancer, raise awareness of it, and comfort patients, and finances cancer research projects that aim to improve the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
In 2008, the AECC awarded a three-year grant to IRB Barcelona researcher Roger Gomis to fund a project aimed at identifying the genes involved in the metastasis of breast cancer to the lung. In 2009, IRB Barcelona’s Colorectal Cancer group led by Eduard Batlle received an AECC contract grant aimed at promoting the professional careers of new researchers in Spain.
More information: AECC website
About IRB Barcelona
The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
