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Worldwide Cancer Research funds studies on breast cancer at IRB Barcelona

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“La Vanguardia” newspaper has published an article on a grant given by the Worldwide Cancer Research to the project presented by Roger Gomis, ICREA researcher and group leader of the Growth Control and Cancer Metastasis group at IRB Barcelona. Lasting three years, the award-winning project aims to study the mechanisms behind the latent state of breast cancer metastasis.

Read the article in La Vanguardia (in Spanish)

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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).