Conference “We face the D decade of the war against cancer”

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Conference “We face the D decade of the war against cancer”

October 30, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Alberto Jimenez Schuhmacher. Head of the Molecular Oncology Research Group of the Health Research Institute of Aragon (IIS Aragón), Biomedical Research Center of Aragon, he has been Favorite Son of the city of Zaragoza and Aragonese of the year in 2018.

Richard Nixon declared the War against cancer in 1971 with the goal of finding a cure by the end of that decade. He intended to emulate Kennedy's promise to land a man on the Moon at the end of the predecessor. Why did Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon and we haven't cured cancer yet? The truth is that survival, on average, has gone from 35% to more than 53% in this period and going to the Moon was easy. Landing on the moon required many resources and the work of countless people, but the basic knowledge, the science that was needed to do it, the physics, the materials, the engineering were mostly known and understood. It has taken us more than 40 years to build the fundamental knowledge on cancer and developing the technology necessary to combat it.

We will review the great milestones in the cancer biology research which include the deciphering of the genome, the rational design of drugs, the development of new experimental models, bioinformatics, liquid biopsy and immunotherapy, and we will delve into the current state, challenges and opportunities of research in oncology.

Last session of Cycle «Impact of new technologies on biological evolution»Organized by the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, Chemical and Natural Sciences of Zaragoza y Ibercaja Foundation, with the aim of disseminating and disseminating the impact that new technologies have had on Biological Sciences in recent years. and how its application has allowed us to address once unimaginable challenges.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2019. 19.00:XNUMX p.m.
Preferential access with registration will be valid up to 10 minutes before the start of the activity.

Location:

Ibercaja Patio de la Infanta. Saragossa
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, 16
976 971 926

 

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October 30, 2019
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7: 00 pm - 8: 00 pm
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