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In 2019, a group from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares published in the journal Nature relevant data around the involvement of the p38gamma protein in the development of the main type of primary liver cancer. This is hepatocellular carcinoma, which affects more than one million people a year worldwide and for which few pharmacological…
2021Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish and Catalan.
2019Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish and Catalan.
2017For the second time in history, the Foundation Esteve Research Award has finally been granted to two works. The international jury grants this award every two years, and considered these works to be the two best pharmacology research articles published by Spanish authors. The award, which has a prize of 18,000 euros, will be shared…
2015A combination of two drugs, trastuzumab and dasatinib, improve the treatment response by 30% in breast cancers, those in which tumour cells show an overexposure to the HER2 protein. This is the discovery of four scientists from Cancer Research Centre (CIC-IBMCC), part of the University of Salamanca and CSIC, who were awarded the 13th Esteve…
2013The Neuropharmacology Laboratory of the Pompeu Fabra University published in Nature Neuroscience in September 2009.The title of the paper was Cannabinoid modulation of hippocampal long-term memory is mediated by mTOR signaling and it was considered by the international jury that awarded the prize, to the best paper in pharmacology published by a Spanish autor in 2008 and 2009.…
2011The epigenetics laboratory of the National Cancer Research Center (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas) (CNIO) published in Nature Genetics in 2006 the discovery of the mutation in an epigenetic gene in human cancer. Three years later, received the eleventh Esteve Foundation Research Award for an article in which they described the alteration of the HDAC2…
2009A team from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of the Basque Country that was awarded the 10th Research Prize granted by the Esteve Foundation. Among 45 nominated articles, the development of a family of synthetic molecules able to restrain liver metastases by 50% in experimental melanoma was considered by the international jury as…
2007The discovery of two new compounds likely to be developed as analgesics for inflammatory pain management is the study awarded with the ninth Research Prize of the Esteve Foundation. This work, published in February 2002 in the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was performed jointly by investigators of the CSIC and of…
2005This prize, offered biennially by the Esteve Foundation to the best work on pharmacological research, was awarded this year to the study An anorexic lipid mediator regulated by feeding, published in Nature (2001; 414:209-12). In this work, the main contribution was the discovery of Oleylethanolamide, a hormone that prevents the ingestion of more food than is necessary.…
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