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CNIO researchers Neibla Priego (left) and Isabel Espejo (right) will talk about their work with teenagers and young people in an Instagram Live session at @cniostopcancer.
Save the date! On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11F), the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) is organizing an Instagram Live session aimed to talk about science with teenagers in their own territory –social media–. We intend to feed their curiosity… without ever getting to fulling it up!
CNIO researchers Neibla Priego (Brain Metastasis Group) and Isabel Espejo (Telomeres and Telomerase Group of the Humanism and Science Foundation) will tell them about the reasons behind their career choices, their obstacles and rewards, their daily lives, their aspirations… They will also, of course, answer questions from the audience.
The event wants to reach teenagers and a very young public, perhaps now in the process of choosing the next step in their education. But also everyone else with an interest in cancer research will certainly enjoy the time with Neibla and Isabel.
Neibla Priego explores therapeutic and diagnostic options for brain metastasis, which occurs in 10-40% of tumors originating in other organs. Neibla is first author of a study describing how a compound called silibinin reduces brain metastasis.
Isabel Espejo studies telomeres, the structures in chromosomes that are essential to protect the genetic material within each cell. An in-depth understanding of how telomeres function is useful to research the aging process, as well as for finding strategies against cancer and other diseases. Isabel has a CNIO Friends postdoctoral contract, mostly funded by La Roche-Posay (L’Oréal Spain).
The Instagram Live will start on @cniostopcancer on Friday, February 9, at 18:00 h (CET).