The popular vote has chosen the study on soluble AXL as an early biomarker of pancreatic cancer as the most outstanding among the eight finalist projects.
World Rare Disease Day is celebrated on February 28. These types of diseases affect 8% of the world population, more than three million people in Spain, some 400,000 in Catalonia.
To celebrate the carnival festivities, costumes of all kinds have appeared around the IIBB laboratories
The day was organized by the IIBB-CSIC Equality Commission and was attended by more than 100 high school students.
The objective of this initiative is to draw attention in the role of women in science at different stages of their scientific career and promote scientific vocations.
Paloma Ruiz Blázquez is pursuing her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Dr. Anna Moles, within the research group Tissue Remodeling, Fibrosis and Cancer (TRFC group) of the IIBB.