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Conference by Professor Xavier Cabré (ICREA-UPC) and the economist Jordi Massó in acknowledgement of Professor John Nash
La Societat Catalana d’Economia (SCE) i la Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques (SCM) organitzen un acte conjunt de reconeixement del Professor John F. Nash (Premi Nobel d’Economia 1994 i premi Abel 2015) el proper 9 de novembre de 2015 a les 19 hores. L’acte serà a la sala Pi i Sunyer de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans […]
Josep Dalmau (ICREA at IDIBAPS), appointed member of the National Academy of Medicine (US)
Josep Dalmau has been elected member of one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the world, the National Academy of Medicine. The Academy eleted 70 new members in the US and only 10 international members, Josep among them. In the words of its current president, Victor Dzau, “Our newly elected members represent the […]
Josep Maria Llovet (ICREA at IDIBAPS) obtains 1M euro European funds to explore hepatocellular carcinoma.
The recently awarded grant is a joint project in H2020 European programme aimed at understanding the mechanisms of hepatocellular carcinoma and the impact of comorbidities in the outcome of the disease. The total amount of the project exceeds 5 milion euro and involves 10 different partners in 5 countries. Full details here.
Laura Soucek (ICREA at VHIO) obtains funding from BBVA foundation to develop her novel anticancer therapy
Barcelona, October 2015.- Laura Soucek, Principal Investigator of VHIO´s Mouse Models of Cancer Therapies Group and ICREA Professor, has just been announced as one of the five BBVA Foundation Grant recipients for her group´s research exploring the Validation of an innovative anti-Myc therapy in glioblastoma. Congratulations Laura! Further information in the VHIO press release
Inauguration of the CCCB +HUMANS exhibition
ICREA collaboration with CCCB continues, in this case, with several contributions to the +HUMANS exhibition by ICREAs: Luc Steels, Arcadi Navarro, Mavi Sanchez-Vives, Mel Slater, Hector Geffner will all be giving talks over the next few weeks on the limits of intelligence and of humankind. The inaugural session will take place at CCCB, at 19:30h. […]
A predictor for bone metastasis in breast cancer patients
Roger Gomis (ICREA at IRB Barcelona) and his team have just found a reliable predictor for bone metastasis in breast cancer. The finding, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reveals that the ability of breast cancers to invade bone requires the overexpression of a specific gene (MAF). With that, tumour cells learn […]
ICREA Academia call 2015
Next call of the ICREA Academia programme. Call guidelines will be posted here on the opening day of the call, but we do not expect major changes from last years.
ICREA Conference Awards 2015
ICREA Conference Awards are specific, dedicated awards aimed at funding scientific events of the hottest, most advanced topics in research of all disciplines. ICREA research professors make their proposals for funding and a board of external advisors ranks them and grants the awards. This edition of the ICA, ICREA Conference Awards, has gone to three […]
Paleodiet… Carbodiet?
The real ‘paleodiet’ may have had a lot more carbohydrates than expected: brain development, cooking and the evolution of our digestive machinery are all elegantly linked together in this article by Karen Hardy, ICREA at UAB. See the press release: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/pressReleases/2015/August/150806_qrb_hardy_et_al_paleo_diet.html …and the full article in Quarterly Review of Biology at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/682587
Narcís Monturiol awards to Jaume and Isabelle
Isabelle Vernós (ICREA at CRG) and Jaume Bertranpetit have both been awarded the prestigious Narcís Monturiol medal, a recognition of their outstanding contributions to the development of science and research in Catalonia. Congratulations to both!
