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Eduard Batlle receives the Banc Sabadell Prize for biomedical research

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 09.06.2010

Eduard Batlle receives the Banc Sabadell Prize for biomedical research

Today the scientist Eduard Batlle, ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), will be awarded the V Banc Sabadell Prize for Biomedical Research for his studies on cancer of the colon. In an act to be held this evening at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the president of the "Banc Sabadell", Josep Oliu, will present the prize, which has a value of 50,000 euros. The ceremony will also be attended by the Minister of Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Marina Geli, the director of the Fundació Banc Sabadell, Miquel Molins, the president of the jury, Josep Baselga, and the director of IRB Barcelona, Joan J. Guinovart, among other authorities.

Since 2005 Eduard Batlle has been the Coordinator of the Oncology Programme and head of the Colorectal Cancer Lab at IRB Barcelona. His lab studies the onset of colon cancer and its progression from initial stages to the formation of aggressive tumours. With the aim to design new diagnostic and therapeutic tools, his team develops and examines cell and animal models that mimic this kind of cancer.