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IRB Barcelona to participate in a CENIT consortium on cancer research

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 01.12.2009

IRB Barcelona to participate in a CENIT consortium on cancer research

The research project "Oncologica", coordinated by the company PharmaMar, is one of the 18 projects to receive funding from the Ministry of Science and Innovation through the 5th National Strategic Consortiums for Technological Research Programme (CENIT-E). The project will include the participation of the Cell Division Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, headed by ICREA researcher Cayetano González. "Oncologica" seeks to study new strategies based on biomarkers for the detection of cancer, its prognosis, prediction of response and the development of new treatments. Specifically, the Cell Division Laboratory aims to contribute to these objectives using Drosophila stem cells and tumour models, also based on Drosophila, that have been developed in the same lab

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