Antonio Huerta presenta el modelo ICREA en el Foro Nacional de Política de Investigación
En un acto en Madrid, organizado por ELSEVIER y presidido por la Secretaria de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovacíon, la Sra. Carmen Vela, El Director de ICREA, Antonio Huerta, presentó el dia 12 de Noviembre el modelo de ICREA en el marco del debate sobre la mejora de la calidad de la investigación […]
68th ICREA colloquium – The LHC New Results and the LHC Big Data Challenge
By: Mario Martínez (ICREA at IFAE) and Manuel Delfino (PIC) When: 10th November 2015, 18:00h Where: ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 6th floor Abstracts: Mario Martínez Results from the LHC Run II After two years of shutdown, devoted to repairs and improvements, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN resumed operations in June 2015 to deliver […]
Conferència del Professor Xavier Cabré (ICREA-UPC) i l’economista Jordi Massó en reconeixement del 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. […]
Predicció de metàstasi òssia en càncer de mama
Roger Gomis (ICREA a l’IRB Barcelona) i el seu equip acaben de trobar el gen que permet la metàstasi òssia en pacients de càncer de mama, i ho han publicat al darrer numero de la revista Journal of the National Cancer Institute. L’estudi desvetlla que les cèl.lules del tumor de mama aprenen a reconèixer, envair […]
ICREA Conference Awards 2015
Els ‘ICREA Conference Awards‘ (ICA) són ajuts específics que ICREA atorga per finançar la cel.lebració de trobades científiques de molt alt nivell, en recerca de totes les disciplines. Els ICREAs presenten les seves propostes, que són avaluades per un panell extern d’experts, que fan la recomanació final. Enguany, s’han atorgat tres ajuts ICA, després d’un […]
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
