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CNIO researchers Rafael Fernández Leiro and Marisol Soengas. /Laura M. Lombardía. CNIO

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02.07.2026 CNIO to seek drugs to extend the effectiveness of immunotherapy to more tumors, using a strategy selected by the European Research Council Immunotherapy has significantly improved the treatment of aggressive tumors such as melanoma, but in...

From left: CNIO researchers Gonçalo Bernardes, Nabil Djouder, Óscar Fernández Capetillo, Eleonora Lapi, Francisco X. Real, Patricia Hernández and Daniel Salas, winners of the 2026 AECC grants./ MadMoviex.

26.06.2026 The AECC supports a dozen CNIO projects to improve immunotherapy and chemotherapy, advance prevention, and treat early-stage brain metastasis AECC 2025 Grants Cover All Stages of the Research Career. The AECC explains that its 2025 grants...

From left: Jaime Alegrio-Louro, Marta Amorós, Yanira Méndez and Antonio Tapia, winners of the CNIO Friends grants in the 2026 call for applications. / MadMoviex. CNIO.

Outreach to Society
25.06.2026 CNIO welcomes four young researchers seeking new ways to stop cancer, thanks CNIO Friends The high level of scientific productivity at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)...

Desde la izda.: Fernando Peláez, Raúl Rabadán, Carl June, Michel Sadelain, Manel Juan, Antonio Pérez-Mártínez y Luis Álvarez-Vallina, en la entrega de los Premios Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento, en Bilbao. / CNIO

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25.06.2026 June and Sadelain, the pioneers of CAR-T cell immunotherapy, receive the Frontiers of Knowledge Award Carl June and Michel Sadelain, the pioneers of cell-based immunotherapies, are the winners of the...

From the left: Roger Castells-Graells, Susana Codina, deputy director at Fundación Occident, Todd Yeates and Óscar Llorca. / Christian Esposito. Madmoviex. CNIO

Outreach to Society
15.06.2026 Todd Yeates, inventor of ‘protein Lego’, will design nanomolecules with therapeutic potential as a Fundación Occident Visiting Researcher at CNIO American researcher Todd O. Yeates is taking part in the latest edition of Fundación Occident...

11.06.2026 CNIO research, a key source for the development of genomic medicine in Romania The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) leads or participates in national and...

From left: Gonzalo Gómez, Tomás Di Domenico, and Fátima Al-Shahrour, bioinformaticians at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)./ CNIO

Outreach to Society
11.06.2026 Gene hunters: learn how to crack the cancer code with the Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics The servers of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) store the genomes of millions of...

Speakers and audience at the ‘CNIO-CaixaResearch Frontier Meeting Metabolism and Cancer: Insights from Obesity and Beyond’. / Christian Esposito. Madmoviex. CNIO.

Events
09.06.2026 CFM Metabolism and Cancer. Diet will in fact complement cancer treatments, but basic research and clinical trials are still lacking “You’re never going to be able to cure cancer with diet alone, that’s not going to...

Meeting organizers: from the left, Alejo Efeyan, Guadalupe Sabio, Mª Carmen F. Agüera and Nabil Djouder. / Christian Esposito. Madmovies. CNIO

Events
22.05.2026 CFM Metabolism and Cancer. An international meeting at CNIO explores whether diet and exercise can help treat cancer There is growing evidence that the patient’s metabolism—the biochemical processes occurring in...