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Dr. Núria López-Bigas, awarded the Rei Jaume I Prize for Biomedical Research
Scientific
Smoking and biological sex shape healthy bladder tissue evolution, offering clues to cancer risk
Institutional
Dr. Núria López-Bigas awarded the 2025 Rei Jaume I Award for Medical Research
Scientific
Five key factors predict the response of cancer patients to immunotherapy
Scientific
New machine learning models to identify driver mutations for clonal hematopoiesis
Dr. Núria López Bigas at the appointment ceremony as a full academician of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales.
Institutional
Dr. Núria López-Bigas: “Studying healthy tissue helps us to understand the onset of cancer”
Scientific
Researchers from IRB Barcelona and Sant Joan de Déu unveil the origin of second pediatric cancers and chemotherapy-induced mutations in healthy tissues
Institutional
Dr. Nuria López-Bigas receives the 2023 Biomedical Research Award from the Lilly Foundation
Institutional
IRB Barcelona promotes personalised cancer medicine at the European Parliament, in the framework of the CGI-Clinics project
Institutional
”la Caixa” Foundation backs machine learning to boost the efficacy of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer
Media mentions
La investigación del cáncer ayuda a detectar varias enfermedades sanguíneas - La Vanguardia
Scientific
Cancer research repurposed to expose age-related blood diseases
Institutional
IRB Barcelona co-leads an international Cancer Grand Challenges team to investigate very early stages of cancer development
Media mentions
La tecnología española que acorrala al cáncer: a la caza de las mutaciones de cada tumor - El Confidencial
Media mentions
Cap a l'equitat en els tractaments personalitzats del càncer - TV3
Institutional
CGI - Clinics: The EU backs a project at IRB Barcelona to expand tumour genome interpretation for personalised cancer treatment
Media mentions
How hybrid working took hold in science - Nature
Media mentions
Hablan las científicas: "Ser mujer en la ciencia es un hándicap añadido" - Vanitatis
Institutional
World Cancer Day 2022: IRB Barcelona Cancer Research Highlights
Institutional
Dr. Núria López-Bigas, Dr. Ferran Muiños and Dr. Abel González-Pérez receive the 2021 City of Barcelona Award
Scientific
Scientists reveal how the impact of chemotherapy on healthy cells affects the development of blood cells
Researchers used whole-genome sequencing to characterize three molecular subtypes of lung cancer in people who had never smoked. Credit: National Cancer Institute
Scientific
IRB Barcelona participates in a study that illuminates origins of lung cancer in never smokers
Dr.Ferran Muiños , Dr. Francisco Martinez-Jimenez, Dr. Abel González-Pérez, Dr. Oriol Pich & Dr. Núria López-Bigas.
Scientific
Machine learning fuels personalised cancer medicine
Núria Lopez-Bigas, Anna Bigas & Josep Maria Ribera
Scientific
Cancer cells resistant to treatment are already present before diagnosis of adult leukaemia
Scientific
568 genes identified with the potential to trigger cancer
Oriol Pich, PhD student at IRB Barcelona.
Community
An interview with Oriol Pich, Medical Doctor and PhD student in Computational Biology at IRB Barcelona
DNA lesions. Credit: Petra Korlevic
Scientific
Unpicking the complexity of DNA mutations
Researchers of the Biomedical Genomics Laboratory
Media mentions
The complete cancer genome will allow early detection and personalized treatment of this disease
The Pan-Cancer project showed that there is a molecular clock in our cells. (Rayne Zaayman-Gallant/EMBL)
Scientific
Unprecedented exploration generates most comprehensive map of cancer genomes charted to date
Núria López-Bigas, head of the Biomedical Genomics Lab at IRB Barcelona, at the presentation ceremony of the ‘Doctores Diz Pintado’ National Cancer Prize
Media mentions
Researcher López-Bigas calls for a national pact for science