XXI National Competition for the award of Research Grants in Life and Material Sciences _ Ramón Aceres Foundation
9 June, 2022
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9 June, 2022
The Ciudad de Monzón Women's Race is an initiative that was born with the main objective of achieving the participation of women in physical activity, encouraging them to play sports, enjoy it and gain health through an activity that is motivating and not exclusive, but also as a solidarity project in favor of the fight against cancer in a playful environment as a way to raise the maximum possible funds to develop and enhance scientific research. The first edition was held in 2014, with almost a thousand participants, becoming the largest women's sporting event in the city of Huesca.
Its relationship with the Aragón Health Research Institute began in 2018, when the organization donated the 10.900 euros raised in that edition to the 'Immune biomarkers for the treatment of metastasis through immunotherapy' project, from the 'Miguel Servet Medical Oncology' research group. Several program leaders then visited the IIS Aragón facilities, where they were able to meet the teams of researcher Julián Pardo, coordinator of the 'Immunity, cancer and diseases of infectious origin or molecular basis' program, and Dr. Antonio Antón, head of the Service. of Oncology at the Miguel Servet Hospital.
Following the success of that call, in 2019 the donation amounted to 12.650 euros, an amount that was allocated to the project 'Development of immunotherapy with natural killer (NK) cells for the treatment of childhood brain tumors'. On that occasion, as a thank you, it was Julián Pardo who visited Monzón to give a talk and share with the Montisonnian public the keys to his research work.
In the last two years the race has not been able to be held due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but on October 9, the sporting event will resume, which is now in its sixth edition.
The El Pino Solidarity Trail race in Binaced (Huesca) is an initiative of the athlete María Barrabés, a breast cancer survivor, and whose proceeds are destined to the fight against this disease, either for the acquisition of material and equipment or to promote research in this field. It has been celebrated since 2016 and, both in 2017 and in the last edition (in 2020 it could not be held due to the pandemic), the organization of this sporting event decided to make donations to the Aragón Health Research Institute, which amount to a total of 20.000 euros.
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