EACR

The Pezcoller Foundation – EACR Cancer Researcher Award (Lecture) celebrates the academic excellence and achievements in the field of cancer research. The  nominees will be cancer researchers from european countries with no more than 15 years post doctoral experience and a record of employment in Europe of at least five years.

The winner will give the prestigious Pezcoller Foundation – EACR Cancer Researcher Award Lecture at EACR-23 in Munich, 5th – 8th July, 2014, and receive a prize of €10,000.

Rosário André was awarded with the «Young Investigator Award” by the EACR for her contribution for the understanding of the role of Interleukin-6 in tumor progression and metastatic development in solid tumors, in particular in breast cancer.

Rosário André is a Medical Oncology Fellow at Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil and a PhD student at the Programa de Doutoramento em Medicina da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Salomé Pinho was awarded with the «Young Investigator Award» by the EACR for her contribution for the identification of a novel regulatory system of a protein that is determinant in the process of gastric cancer development and progression.

This work was recently published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (Pinho SS et al BBA 2012 [Epub ahead of print]) and PLoS ONE (Pinho SS et al. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e33191) journals.

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Rosário André was awarded with the «Young Investigator Award” by the EACR for her contribution for the understanding of the role of Interleukin-6 in tumor progression and metastatic development in solid tumors, in particular in breast cancer.

Rosário André is a Medical Oncology Fellow at Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil and a PhD student at the Programa de Doutoramento em Medicina da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Salomé Pinho was awarded with the “Young Investigator Award” by the EACR for her contribution for the identification of a novel regulatory system of a protein that is determinant in the process of gastric cancer development and progression.

This work was recently published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (Pinho SS et al BBA 2012 [Epub ahead of print]) and PLoS ONE (Pinho SS et al. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e33191) journals.

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