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Nicola D’Amelio (right), Fundación Occident Visiting Professor, with Jorge Martínez Torrecuadrada, head of the CNIO Protein Production Unit. /MadMoviex. CNIO

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13.08.2026 What if cancer treatment came with a yogurt? Chemist Nicola D’Amelio is developing a new idea at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre...

MamoRisk team at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). From left: Cindy Katherin Huertas, Guillermo Pita, Anna González Neira and Sara Sánchez. / MadMoviex. CNIO

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20.07.2026 MamoRisk. MamoRisk project to validate in Spain a new breast cancer risk prediction model The mammograms currently offered by Spain’s National Health System to women according to their age...

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.

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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

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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

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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...