Virgil Simons from Radio Kanal Barcelona has interviewed ICREA researcher Roger Gomis about breast cancer. Gomis is one of the co-authors of an article recently published in Lancet Oncology in which they identified a group of patients with early breast cancer who could benefit from a preventive treatment of metastasis.
Link to Radio Kanal Barcelona
Israel Ramos is a drug discovery professional specialised in in vitro assay development support to research programs and compound characterisation. With his more than 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, he is currently working at the at IRB Barcelona Innovation department as Technology Transfer Consultant. Israel provides support to IRB Barcelona researchers by giving advice about the applicability of potential drug candidates based on IRB Barcelona discoveries.
This research will help to identify those genes that play a key role in the initiation of metastasis
Metastasis causes 90% of cancer related deaths
It is estimated that one in four people will require brain treatment at some point. While there are drug candidates for most diseases of the brain, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) poses an impassable obstacle for most of these compounds and a bottleneck for the delivery of drugs that could cure these patients.
