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ICREA researcher Núria López-Bigas (Photo: IRB Barcelona)
 28.01.2020

Núria López-Bigas receives the National ‘Doctores Diz Pintado’ Cancer Research Prize

Núria López-Bigas, ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) in the Barcelona Science Park, has received the IX National 'Doctores Diz Pintado' Cancer Research Prize for her career path. The researcher is the first female scientist to be presented with this prize, which is presented every year by the Fundación de Investigación del Cáncer de la Universidad de la Salamancaa (FICUS)-Centro de Investigación del Cáncer (USAL-CSIC)  to promote and acknowledge the contribution of young Spanish researchers to Cancer Research.

 

Núria López-Bigas, ICREA researcher and head of the Biomedical Genomics Lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has received the IX National ‘Doctores Diz Pintado’ Cancer Research Prize for her career path.  The jury highlighted the relevance and impact of López-Bigas´ work, which focuses on genomics and has wide applications in personalised medicine. 

Using pioneering bioinformatics techniques, López-Bigas and her team study the mutations that underlie cancer and the mutational processes that make the genomes of our cells accumulate thousands of mutations. One of the most outstanding achievements of the lab has been the development of IntOGen and CancerGenomeInterpeter, two technologies that can be used to analyse alterations in cancer cells.

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