{"id":45584,"date":"2018-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/pere-roca-cusachs-wins-the-2017-city-of-barcelona-award-for-the-life-sciences\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:48:22","slug":"pere-roca-cusachs-wins-the-2017-city-of-barcelona-award-for-the-life-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/en\/pere-roca-cusachs-wins-the-2017-city-of-barcelona-award-for-the-life-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Pere Roca-Cusachs wins the 2017 City of Barcelona Award for the Life Sciences."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Barcelona Awards are granted by Barcelona City Council, and the jury \u2013 Patrick Aloy, Juan Valc\u00e1rcel, Cristina Subidas, Elena Casacuberta, and Neus Agell \u2013 were unanimous in their choice of Pere for the prize.\u00a0The award comes after the publication of his study in\u00a0Cell\u00a0((DOI:<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2017.10.008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2017.10.008<\/a>)\u00a0last year, where he identified a mechanism by which tissue rigidity regulates cell survival and proliferation, as well as its implications in diseases such as cancer and liver and lung fibrosis.<\/p>\n<p>Pere Roca-Cusachs,\u00a0assistant professor at the UB and head of IBEC\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ibecbarcelona.eu\/cellmolmech\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cellular and Molecular Mechanobiology<\/a>\u00a0group, which carried out the study together with the institute\u2019s\u00a0Cellular and Respiratory Biomechanics\u00a0and\u00a0Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics\u00a0groups, in collaboration with researchers in King\u2019s College in London.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona City Council convenes the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcn.cat\/cultura\/premisciutatbcn\/2014\/index.shtml\">City of Barcelona Awards every year<\/a>\u00a0to reward quality creation, research and production carried out in Barcelona by creators and groups who work here, and Barcelona institutions and organisations that promote and produce them.The work rewarded must contribute to cultural development and be integrated into the citizen fabric the creators, associations, public institutions and cultural industries take part in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pere Roca-Cusachs, group leader at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/portal\/en\/cerca?p_p_id=cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;p_p_col_id=column-1&amp;p_p_col_count=1&amp;_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_jspPage=%2Fhtml%2Fcommon%2Fdetall-empresa.jsp&amp;_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_empresaId=ENT_000134&amp;_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_redirect=%2Fportal%2Fen%2Fcerca%3Fp_p_id%3Dcercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_keywords%3Dibec%26_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_tab%3D1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IBEC<\/a> and assistant professor at the University of Barcelona, has won the 2017 City of Barcelona Award for the life sciences.The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, 15 February, \u00a0in the Sal\u00f3 de Cent at the Barcelona City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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