The IIBM is very committed to encourage the passion for research of outstanding students For the second consecutive year, the IIBM hosts finalists in the XVIII Spanish Biology Olympiad. The groups led by Drs. Juan Manuel Zapata and José Luis Orgaz receive two excellent students from the 2nd year of High School. The Spanish Biology Olympiad (OEB) is a national competition that was born in 2005 and is organized by the Spanish Association of Biology Olympiads. The competition is attended by students of 2nd year of High School from all over the country who love the subject of Biology and with excellent scores in this discipline, both in the current academic year and in the past. The mission of this competition is to promote the study of Biology and to bring the students closer to the research work. Competitions are held in each...

The IIBM welcomes with enthusiasm the CSIC Presidency team on its 101st visit to the CSIC's Institutes   The president of the CSIC, Eloísa del Pino, in her visit to the IIBM has detailed the goals achieved after assuming the leadership of the institution last year. First she met with all the IIBM staff, then with the management team, and finally she walked around the Institute's facilities. The president of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC),  Eloísa del Pino , visited the  Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols (IIBM) CSIC-UAM  on Monday, July 10. This visit is part of an active program of visits to CSIC's own and joint centers in order to learn about the reality of all of them. Eloísa del Pino  was accompanied by the vice-president for Organization...

• Eight IES of the Community of Madrid from vulnerable areas and 19 CSIC centers, including the IIBM, have participated in the "Scientists in practice" program of the CSIC and the Spanish Association for the Advancement of Science (AEAC).

Award for the best poster in clinical research for the team of Dr. Víctor Ruiz of the IIBM Asier Iturrate Soleto , PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Victor Ruiz, has been awarded at the European Congress of Human Genetics (ESHG2023), which took place between 10 and 13 June in the city of Glasgow, UK. Asier was awarded the prize for Best Poster in Clinical Research among the 30 candidate posters and was invited to present his work "Recessive mutations in SCNM1 are a new cause of Orofaciodigital syndrome due to errors in minor intron splicing affecting primary cilia" in a 3-minute oral presentation in the Best Poster session, followed by a poster discussion with the evaluation committee. The European Congress of Human Genetics was attended by more than 4700 researchers and clinicians specializing in Human Genetics, and around 1000 other...

The Health Researchers Entrepreneurship Program awards two IIBM projects The spin-off projects of Aurora Sánchez Pacheco and Juan Manuel Zapata Hernández were awarded at the 2023 DIH·bio initiative-sponsored Pich day of the Entrepreneurship Program for Health researchers.   Juan Manuel Zapata and Aurora Sánchez Pacheco have received the second and third prize, respectively, at the 2023 DIH·bio initiative-sponsored Pich day of the Entrepreneurship Program for Health researchers of "UAM emprende" and Genesis Biomed. Read more Juan Manuel Zapata presented "Nabiza Pharmaceutics", a spin-off company project dedicated to the discovery of drugs from plants (Brasicaceae) for the treatment of leukemia and lymphoma. Aurora Sánchez Pacheco presented her spin-off company project "Cancer Catch", dedicated to...

Visit of the Technical Committee of the Domingo Martínez Foundation to the IIBM regarding project financing The project presented by Dr. Silvia Martín Puig and Dr. Benilde Jiménez Cuenca, from the IIBM, will be funded by the Domingo Martínez Foundation in the 2023 call dedicated to Hypoxia and Cardiovascular Diseases On the occasion of the awarding of the reseach project to Drs. Silvia Martín Puig and Benilde Jiménez Cuenca by Domingo Martínez Foundation, members of the Technical Committee of this Foundation: Antonio Bernal, Julio Marín, Emilio Alonso and Emilio Antón, together with Dr. Dolores González Pacanowska, CSIC researcher, visited the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, IIBM, (CSIC-UAM). The patrons of the Fundación Domingo Martínez were received by Dr. Mario Vallejo , Director of the IIBM (CSIC-UAM)...

The IIBM collaborates with the program of the Community of Madrid 4º ESO + company   The program 4º ESO + company aims to bring the world of work closer to the students of 4th year of Secondary Education (ESO) through educational stays in different companies This year, the IIBM has doubled its offer with respect to 2022: three research groups and the "Sebastián Cerdán" biomedical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) service have welcomed seven students from four different schools in the Community of Madrid Once again, this year the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, IIBM (CSIC-UAM) participates in the program that the Community of Madrid (CAM) launches to the educational system, in particular to the Secondary Education Institutes (IES), so that students in the 4th year of ESO who request it, can make...

Dr. Víctor Ruiz's group has been distinguished by the CIBERER The XVI Annual Meeting of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras, CIBERER , took place on March 22-24 in San Lorenzo de El Escorial. In this year's forum, in which not only CIBERER groups but also clinical associated groups participated, the latest results obtained by this consortium were presented. In addition, numerous topics of interest related to the subject of Rare Diseases were discussed. The Prize for the Best Oral Presentation, selected through voting by the participants, was awarded to Asier Iturrate Soleto , who is currently working on his PhD Thesis in the Human Genetics and Molecular Pathology group of the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, IIBM (CSIC-UAM) and U760 CIBERER, directed by Dr. Víctor Luis Ruiz-Pérez . The...

Gasdermin B protein exerts an antitumour effect on breast cancer A multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Gema Moreno Bueno, from the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, IIBM (CSIC-UAM), has discovered new functions of the protein Gasdermin B that will further research into the design of therapies for aggressive breast tumours. This research, which represents a glimmer of hope for breast cancer patients with a poor prognosis, has just been published in the prestigious journal Cell Death and Differentiaton Dr. Gema Moreno Bueno , Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid and Researcher at the IIBM (CSIC-UAM), the MD Anderson Foundation, head of the Cancer Biomedical Research Network Centre (CIBERONC) and Conexión Cáncer-CSIC, together with Dr. David Sarrio (CIBERONC), and Dr. Sara S Oltra ...

The Rector of the UAM visits the IIBM to get to know our Centre On Monday 13 March, the Rector of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Amaya Mendikoetxea , visited the Alberto Sols Biomedical Research Institute (IIBM), a joint centre of the CSIC and the UAM. She was accompanied by the Vice-Rector for Science Policy, Daniel Jaque, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Carlos F. Sánchez-Ferrer and the Academic Secretary of the Faculty, Isabel Sánchez . On behalf of the IIBM, she was received by the Director, Mario Vallejo , the Vice-Director, Aurora Sánchez , and the Manager, Isabel Ocaña .   During the visit, the Rector and her companions held a meeting with the IIBM management team, in which the Director gave a brief summary of the lines of research being carried out at the institute, the departmental organisation and the...