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13th annual IBEC symposium on the media

Various media have reported on the opening of the 13th annual IBEC symposium, conducted by Josep Samitier, Director of IBEC, Robert Fabregat, General Director of Research and Innovation in Health of the Ministry of Health at Generalitat of Catalunya; Alfredo González Gómez, Secretary General of Digital Health, Information and Innovation from the Spanish Ministry of Health and Professor Francesc Torres, rector of the UPC.

A new method to find the best treatment for pediatric cancer

A study led by researchers from the Nanobioengineering Group at IBEC, in collaboration with other research centers and hospitals in Barcelona, ​​uses a predictive biomarker to anticipate the success of drugs against rhabdomyosarcoma, which represents around 5 percent of childhood tumors . This advance can help in predicting treatment efficiency thus, avoiding tumor resistance and decreasing undesired secondary effects.