
We talk about health prevention with María Blasco and Luis Quevedo
On this World Health Day, we went to the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (National Cancer Research Centre, CNIO) to meet with María Blasco, director of the centre and president of the jury for the Fundación Jesús Serra Awards. This time, Luis Quevedo, director of strategic projects at the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y Tecnología (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology FECYT), joined us to interview María.
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Three questions and six answers to understand obesity
To help us understand obesity better, we spoke with Guadalupe Sabio (CNIC), Rubén Nogueiras (CIMUS) and Raúl Zamora (IDIBELL). All three have been recognised for their work in this field through the Fundación Jesús Serra Research Awards.
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Research with and for women
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and we are bringing you the stories of three women scientists who are researching the effects of food and nutrition on health. Their results show that a healthy diet is not limited to a single type...
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Interview with Arkaitz Carracedo: “Molecular medicine is key to a greater understanding of prostate cancer, and hence more successful treatments”
Since 2003, and with a moustache as its logo, Movember has called upon the international community to raise awareness about the most common men's health issues. These include prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men. In June of this year, the Fundación Jesús...
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Interview with Fàtima Crispi on her research study awarded by Fundación Jesús Serra
Fàtima Crispi,, winner in the clinical research category of the Fundación Jesús Serra Research Awards, has given an interview to the newspaper El País. Recognised for her research studies on the development and low weight of babies during pregnancy, and at birth, it...
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Arkaitz Carracedo and Fàtima Crispi, winners of the Fundación Jesús Serra Research Awards
In this fourth edition, the awards recognise research in cancer and maternal-fetal medicine that explores the importance of food and nutrition in the prevention and treatment of diseases.
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Feeding our health concerns all of us
Looking after and nurturing our health is a concept that applies to everyone, both at a personal and individual level and at a global and social level.
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Raúl Zamora participates in a study linking the Mediterranean diet with a lower risk of mortality in the elderly
Raúl Zamora, winner of the second edition of the Fundación Jesús Serra Research Award, has participated in a study that links the Mediterranean diet with the reduction in the risk level of mortality in the elderly.
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Today marks the opening of the submission period for the fourth edition of the Fundación Jesús Serra Research Awards, Grupo Catalana Occidente, directed at young researchers working in research centres, universities and hospitals in Spain in the fields of nutrition...
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Study led by Salvador Aznar reveals how palmitic acid promotes metastasis
Salvador Aznar and his team have described the mechanism by which palmitic acid, the main component of palm oil, makes cancer cells more aggressive by increasing their ability to metastasise.
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Research led by Guadalupe Sabio has discovered two proteins essential for the metabolism of the heart in newborns
The research group at the National Centre for Cardiovascular Research led by Guadalupe Sabio, winner of the 2018 Jesús Serra Foundation Research Award, has discovered two proteins that are essential for the metabolism of the heart in newborns.
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Borja Ibáñez wants to prevent chemotherapy from damaging the heart
Borja Ibáñez, one of the winners of the Jesús Serra Foundation 2021 Research Award, explained his research to develop new treatments that minimise or eliminate the cardiac toxicity of some cancer treatments.
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