Three years ago, Eduard Batlle is ICREA research professor of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the principal investigator and coordinator of the Translational Oncology Program and the Institute of Applied biomedical research in Barcelona (IRB Barcelona). It has a complete history that includes extended periods of research in leading laboratories in oncology: completed his doctoral thesis at the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) in 1999, spent nearly two years of postdoctoral researcher in the group in Germany and Miguel Beato four more in the Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology. (more...)

Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, PhD in Biochemistry and Pharmacology from the Universities of Bologna and Valencia, has postdoctoral at the University of Marburg and the European Molecular Biology Laboratories (EMBL) in Heidelberg. Since 1993 works in the Gene Expression Laboratory at the Salk Institute in California and runs a prestigious center for work performed with the zebrafish animal model. (more...)