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May 2 2016

Laura Soucek raises her first million!
PEPTOMYC, the spin off led by Laura Soucek (ICREA at VHIO) has just raised 1 million to complete preclinical developent of a novel tumor inhibitor,

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Laura Soucek raises her first million!

PEPTOMYC, the spin off led by Laura Soucek (ICREA at VHIO) has just raised 1 million to complete preclinical developent of a novel tumor inhibitor, a peptyde that blocks the MYC gene, which sits in the centrer of all the signalling cascade that leads to tumor groth and proliferation. Blocking MYC has proved very successful in preclical trials: tumors seem unable to find a way around MYC, and recede very dramatically.

We wish them best of luck and we hope to see the therapy in use some time, sooner rather than later!
Apr 20 2016

Karen Hardy's research on Neanderthals on BBC Earth
Karen Hardy (ICREA at UAB) uncovers surprising evidence about Neanderthals by studying their teeth and deriving clues as to how these mysterious an

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Karen Hardy's research on Neanderthals on BBC Earth

Karen Hardy (ICREA at UAB) uncovers surprising evidence about Neanderthals by studying their teeth and deriving clues as to how these mysterious and mostly misunderstood early humans lived their lives.

Easy reading for all audiences here.

_{Photo credits: A.Rosas and A. Estalrrich, CSIC}
Apr 12 2016

Nanobots are the new black
Samuel Sanchez (ICREA at IBEC) has had a featured article in Phys.org. Very interesting reading, accessible for everyone!

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Nanobots are the new black

Samuel Sanchez (ICREA at IBEC) has had a featured article in Phys.org. Very interesting reading, accessible for everyone! A good example of aplications of nanoscience.
Available here

Enjoy!
Apr 7 2016

Marcel Swart, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Marcel Swart ICREA at Universitat de Girona, was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, as the certificate he received testifies!

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Marcel Swart, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Marcel Swart ICREA at Universitat de Girona, was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, as the certificate he received testifies! Congratulations Marcel!
Feb 26 2016

Start up power at ICREA!
Two ICREA spin offs obtain funding from H2020 SME support instrument.

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Start up power at ICREA!

Two ICREA spin offs obtain funding from H2020 SME support instrument. The entrepreneurs Laura Soucek (ICREA at VHIO) and Roger Gomis (ICREA at IRB) have both secured a bunch of money from H2020 SME instrument this week. Their two companies are attacking different aspects of cancer tumors. Inbiomotion, Roger's company is testing a platform to prevent breast cancer from invading bone marrow. Peptomyc, Laura's company, has invented an innovative mollecule that blocks one of the most critical oncogenes, applicable to a wide array of different tumors.

Congratulations Laura and Roger, and keep up the good work!

More details? Click here.
Feb 15 2016

Debate "Europe and the Middle East are condemned to fight"

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Debate "Europe and the Middle East are condemned to fight"

Miguel A. González Ballester, ICREA at the UPF, is one of the organisers of a series of debates involving alumni and external people of the Oxford University Alumni Society covering different topics (much like the ICREA Colloquia). The next one will be on February the 18th at the CIDOB Foundation. Further information can be found at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/debate-europe-and-the-middle-east-are-condemned-to-fight-tickets-20987893354.