Acknowledgement to several ICO professionals

Several professionals of the Catalan Institute of Oncology have had their work acknowledged with the giving of awards or funds for their research projects:

Signing of a covenant with the 'aecc

Last May 6th. the Spanish Association against Cancer (aecc*), ICO and the Biomedical Research Institute at the Dr Josep Trueta Hospital (Idibgi) in Girona signed a covenant thanks to which the aecc will provide funds for a research project of ICO’s in Girona (see the ICOnews 91 of March’08). The project, directed by Javier Menéndez, will run for three years and counts on an allowance of €300,000 euros. It is the biggest allowance ever for a project assigned to a non-profitable entity in our country. The Project will study, among others, the role of endogenic fat acids in some breast tumours.

The Jacint Vilardell Award

The Private Foundation of Gastroenterology Dr. Francisco ViIardell has given the award Jacint Vilardell for the best research into colon and rectum cancer to Manel Esteller, director of the Cancer Biology and Epigenetics program of the Catalan Institute of Oncology. The award is an appreciation of the best work published on colon and rectum cancer between 2005 and 2007. Manel Esteller receives it for a study published in 2006 in Nature genetics which identified epigenetic changes that contribute to the appearance and development of colon cancer.

 Nurse College Awards

A study of ICO’s about the treatment of oral mucositis has received the award ‘Ajudes a Projectes de Recerca’*, of the Nurse College, for their contribution to science.

ICO in Hospitalet, ICO in Badalona and the Esperit Sant Hospital have taken part in this study led by Sandra Cabrera, a nurse at ICO in Badalona.

Mucositis –inflammation of the mucous membranes along the intestines- is a frequent side effect after the treatment of certain cancers. The objective of the Project was to compare the effectiveness of two treatments for this problem. [+] intranet