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Secondary school teachers get up to date with cancer research at IRB Barcelona

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Images from the last year's course on "Cancer, metastasis and personalized medicine". Photo: IRB Barcelona.
 07.11.2014

Secondary school teachers get up to date with cancer research at IRB Barcelona

On Friday 7 and Saturday 8 November, 15 teachers from secondary schools in Catalonia will have the opportunity to get up to date with the latest research in cancer, metastasis and personalized medicine through a course given by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). Forming part of the "Teachers and Science" programme promoted by the "Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera", this is the fourth course in which IRB Barcelona has participated. The sesions given in IRB Barcelona facilities, located at the Barcelona Science Park, involves 15 hours of training accredited by the Department of Education of the Catalan Government


This is the second year in which IRB is offering the course “Cancer, metastasis and personalized medicine”, in which the teachers work hand-in-hand with scientists to explore the latest breakthroughs in cutting-edge research in cancer, as well as the techniques and tools used for the study, diagnosis and treatment of tumours. In this course, special attention is given to hot topics, such as cancer stem cells and personalized medicine.

Joan Guinovart, director of IRB Barcelona, emphasizes the need of leading research centres to offer training programmes for students and teachers in stages of compulsory education. “It is in our interests to have teachers and students who are motivated for science. After all, the societies with the highest levels of education are by far those with the greatest well-being. We thank the “Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera” for promoting and supporting this kind of initiative”.

This year’s programme, like other training initiatives at IRB Barcelona—many of them undertaken with the collaboration of the “Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera”—”are in high demand, thus indicating that not only are they necessary but also desirable,” adds the director. The 15 places on the course “Cancer, metastasis and personalized medicine” were filled the very same day the offer was announced on the web Professors i Ciència de la Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera.

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