21st edition – Viladecavalls, October, 2-3 2013

When speaking in front of an audience, only 15% of what actually reaches the public corresponds to the spoken message. In contrast, more than half the information retained by listeners lies in nonverbal communication. Indeed, the lecturer’s posture, gesture and eye gaze tell a lot more on how he/she feels than mere words. These courses…

2013

13th Award: Effect of Multikinase Inhibitors on Caspase-Independent Cell Death and DNA Damage in HER2-Overexpressing Breast Cancer Cells

A 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…

2013