News

• 20 July 2010
  IRB Barcelona expands its cancer program with the hiring of Angel Nebreda from CNIO

  His group will focus on colon and breast cancer, metastasis, and the relation between inflammation and cancer.

• 6 July 2010
  "la Caixa" imports talent to IRB Barcelona to boost biomedical research

  By the end of 2011 IRB Barcelona will have 40 PhD students funded by “la Caixa”

• 23 June 2010
  Five young scientists at IRB Barcelona to attend the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany

  From 27 June to 2 July, five young scientists of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) are to attend the 60th Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany.

• 9 June 2010
  Eduard Batlle receives the Banc Sabadell Prize for biomedical research

  His studies address the initiation and progression of colon cancer, one of the tumours with greatest incidence worldwide.

• 31 May 2010
  How are transport pathways controlled inside cells?

  A group of researchers discover a mechanism based on two proteins that regulate the microtubule network formation in embryonic cells.
  
  Microtubules are like internal cellular transport networks and are fundamental for processes such as the secretion of substances, and cell movement and morphology.

• 20 May 2010
  First ever high resolution observations of DNA unfolding

  This is a key process to understand gene activity and DNA replication, and to design drugs to modulate them in the future.

• 17 May 2010
  Start of Oncology Week in Barcelona

  The international conference “Towards personalized cancer medicine”, the XI Symposium of the “Fundació La Marató de TV3”, and the first “Talència Divulga” Award are held coordinately in Barcelona this week.

• 7 May 2010
  The Spanish Biophysics Society awards prize to two scientists at IRB Barcelona

  Modesto Orozco receives the Bruker Prize and Pau Bernadó the I Prize for Young Investigators.

• 29 April 2010
  Biobusiness in Chicago

  IRB Barcelona to participate in the BIO International Convention, the world’s largest biotechnology convention.

• 20 April 2010
  New data on the regulation of a protein that is altered in all cancers

  The group led by Marco Milán, researcher at IRB Barcelona, discovers that microRNAs control the levels of the oncoprotein Myc in Drosophila.