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07.01.2026 Leading group in brain metastasis research predicts mid-term advances that will improve patients’ lives In his conferences, Manuel Valiente asks the audience which results from his laboratory at the...

CFM organisers Alejo Efeyan (left), Maria A. Blasco and Thomas Rando. / Christian Esposito (Madmoviex). CNIO

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09.12.2025 From telomeres to calorie restriction: research tries to fit together the puzzle of the many processes involved in ageing Cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative conditions are rooted in ageing. But research in recent...

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24.11.2025 World Pancreatic Cancer Day. The latest research on the most lethal cancer: from an ‘app’ to estimate personalised risk to new, more effective drugs Pancreatic cancer is one of the biggest challenges oncology faces. It is on the rise, possibly also...

Guadalupe Sabio / Laura M. Lombardía. CNIO

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07.11.2025 CNIO leads European project to decipher how fat controls our physical health One fifth of the Spanish population is obese, a condition that increases the risk of cancer,...

Elena Zamorano, researcher in the Experimental Oncology Group at the CNIO. /Christian Esposito. CNIO

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21.10.2025 PNAS. New drug in trial for the main oncogene in pancreatic cancer: one small step for patients, one giant leap for research Pancreatic cancer poses biomedical challenges so complex that even advancements that represent...

Núria Malats, Nannan Xue and Sergio Sabroso-Lasa, at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). / Pilar Gil. CNIO

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16.09.2025 GUT. An algorithm that predicts whether pancreatic cancer has spread to other organs could help avoid unnecessary surgeries Pancreatic cancer remains one of the biggest challenges in the field of oncology. Numbers of cases...

La investigadora del CNIO Lucía Fernández, en el centro, con Marta Ibáñez (izda.) y Laura Clares. /CNIO

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03.09.2025 Award for the CNIO Pediatric Cancer Unit CAR-T therapies are a type of personalized immunotherapy in which the patient’s immune cells...

Gonçalo Bernardes. / Laura M. Lombardía. CNIO

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31.07.2025 Nature Communications. CNIO researcher develops a test aimed to detect early-stage tumors with a blood sample Current methods for cancer diagnosis are based on identifying biomarkers – molecules that...

CNIO researcher Marisol Soengas (left) and Marisol Quintero, CEO of Highlight Therapeutics, at the entrance of the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). /Scienseed

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15.07.2025 New clinical trial targets the most common form of skin cancer with a compound based on CNIO discoveries Around 15 years ago, in 2009, the team led by Marisol Soengas at the Spanish National Cancer...