Multiple media channels, both national and international, have echoed a study published by Robert E. Coleman (University of Sheffield) in the Lancet Oncology and which involved Roger Gomis (IRB Barcelona). The work allows early detection of patients who could benefit from zoledronic acid and those who should avoid it. Such early detection would thus accelerate the administration of the first preventive treatment for metastasis.
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Expansión, El Periódico de Catalunya and Diario de Córdoba, among other media, have published articles about the biotechnologist Iproteos, a company created in 2011 by the scientists Teresa Tarragó and Ernest Giralt and based on the transfer of a technology developed atIRB Barcelona and the University of Barcelona (UB). The company has launched a project to develop a therapeutic strategy, designed by IBEC, to treat solid tumours, which account for 90-95% of cancer cases.
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The “Dinero” supplement of the newspaper La Vanguardia has interviewed Roger Gomis, ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona, about Inbiomotion, a spin-off from the institute and ICREA. This company, which came about from biomedical research and an entrepreneurial spirit, develops and commercialises a diagnostic test that allows the identification of those breast cancer patients most likely to develop bone metastasis.
