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Using flies to find treatments against cancer

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 09.09.2009

Using flies to find treatments against cancer

IRB Barcelona -located at the Barcelona Science Park– and the BBVA Foundation bring together a select group of international researchers who use the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to study cancer. The Barcelona BioMed Conference "Modelling cancer in Drosophila", organized by the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the BBVA Foundation, is coordinated by Cayetano González, ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona, and Helena Richardson, from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia. The conference will take place on September 14-16 at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC). Among the researchers taking part in the conference are Ross Cagan (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA), whose work aims to develop a drug that directly affects tumor progression; Ginés Morata (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) who studies cell suicide and tumor transformation; and María Domínguez (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain) whose work focuses on the genes that govern the development of organs and tissues and how cancer can occur when these processes are disturbed. A total of 26 experts will speak at the conference, 12 of whom work in leading laboratories in the US, 9 in Europe, 3 in Asia and 2 in Australia.

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