Pura Muñoz-Cànovas has received the Pfizer Foundation award for Basic Research
Pura Muñoz-Cànovas, ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and head of the Cell Biology group of the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (DCEXS), received the award for Basic Research granted each year by the Pfizer Foundation for her article http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7488/full/nature13013.html published in Nature in February 2014. For the first time a […]
ICREA at Science Week 2015
A whole bunch of ICREAs are taking part in this years’ popular science week ‘Setmana de la Ciència’, an initiative of the FCRI that brings science topics to everyone through talks, shows and conferences. Seventeen ICREA Research Professors are participating in conferences at high schools all over Catalonia, covering topics ranging from astrophysics to climate […]
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 […]
Conferencia del Profesor Xavier Cabré (ICREA-UPC) y el economista Jordi Massó en reconocimiento del Profesor 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 […]
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
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.
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 […]
