The second day of the conference “Towards Personalized Cancer Medicine” held this week at the CosmoCaixa museum in Barcelona, focused on cancer genomics and the identification of biomarkers for use in the prognosis and treatment of the disease. The conference program included 17 plenary presentations. Only have way over, the conference has already met the expectations of the attendees who have expressed their more than favorably reviews about the quality of the lectures and the organization of the program.

Around 300 cancer researchers from around the world are meeting this week in Barcelona at the international conference “Towards Personalized Cancer Medicine,” held at CosmoCaixa from May 18 to 21. Various experts, many of whom are considered to be leaders in the field, will present their work and recent findings with the common objective of discussing everything related to the individualized treatment of cancer. The congress, which is divided into six thematic units, was launched yesterday with the presentation of a series of papers on biology and cancer susceptibility.

Every year since 2000, the TV3 Marathon Foundation holds an annual symposium to publicize the results and advances in cancer research financed by the funds raised five years earlier. Yesterday in Barcelona’s CosmoCaixa museum, the 11th edition of this symposium took place and the progress of the 31 cancer research projects that received 7.7 million euros of donations from altruistic citizens through the Marathon in 2004 were presented to the public. All participants in the conference agreed on the quality of the 31 research papers in terms of results that have been accruing during that time as well as the consolidation of some lines of research and new doors that have opened thanks to the gesture of those who gave money in 2004.

Last Thursday, the second edition of ICREA Academia program awarded 30 Catalan researchers for their excellence and leadership. The objective of this program is to motivate, attract and retain faculty at public universities in Catalonia.