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CIBERES Scientific Conference
Like in previous years, the 8th CIBERES conference took place in Madrid in the Escuela Nacional de Sanidad del ISCIII on 3-4 July . The main researchers from the CIBERES research groups as well as other researchers from the groups met at this conference .
In this conference, it is important to highlight that the CIBERES researchers presented, among others, new breakthroughs in the candidate tuberculosis vaccine MTBVAC, the use of biomarkers to improve lung cancer treatment, and the relationship between apnea and cancer .
In turn, Dr, Ferran Barbé, Scientific Director of CIBERES, stressed the importance of incorporating the objectives of the European programme Horizon 2020 to the function of the centre . He also reviewed the CIBERES transversal means, such as the Technology Transfer Platform which has 12 patents and 4 more currently pending, as well as the Pulmonary Biobank Platform which has about 30,000 samples from about 1,200 patients .
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