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T<\/span>his basic clinical research project aims to determine the involvement of CPEB proteins in the development and progression of the disease. One of the goals of the project is to identify compounds with the capacity to modulate CPEB activity and thus with potential clinical applications.<\/p>\n<p>In the same ceremony, the AECC will present 8 postdoctoral fellowships worth 135,000\u20ac each to outstanding young researchers, among them\u00a0Isabel Garc\u00eda Cao\u00a0from IRB Barcelona.\u00a0Dr. Garc\u00eda Cao\u00a0will focus her study on colon cancer resistance to chemotherapy. The project aims to analyse tumour cell response to genotoxic stress when subjected to various kinds of chemotherapeutic agents combined with inhibitors of key protein kinases, namely p38 MAPK, and ATM. The team will study the efficacy of this combined treatment on tumour cells with distinct genetic profiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year the\u00a0Asociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola Contra el C\u00e1ncer\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aecc.es\/Paginas\/PaginaPrincipal.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AECC<\/a>)\u00a0is granting 6.7 million euros to fund four cutting-edge research projects. These funds will be presented in an official ceremony to be held in Burgos on 23 September. The recipients include ICREA researcher\u00a0R\u00e1ul M\u00e9ndez, from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irbbarcelona.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IRB Barcelona<\/a>), who will coordinate a 5-year project on hepatocellular carcinoma.\u00a0The AECC has also awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to\u00a0Isabel Garc\u00eda Cao\u00a0to study colon cancer resistance to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54697,"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-49923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The AECC awards 1.2 million euros to liver cancer research at IRB Barcelona - Parc Cient\u00edfic de Barcelona<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/en\/the-aecc-awards-1-2-million-euros-to-liver-cancer-research-at-irb-barcelona\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The AECC awards 1.2 million euros to liver cancer research at IRB Barcelona - Parc Cient\u00edfic de Barcelona\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This year the\u00a0Asociaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola Contra el C\u00e1ncer\u00a0(AECC)\u00a0is granting 6.7 million euros to fund four cutting-edge research projects. 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