IDIBELL researchers will lead the pan-European project ‘Targeting the metabolism-immune system connections in Cancer’ (META-CAN), an innovative training network (ITN) funded by the European Commission that will hire and train fifteen early stage researchers in metabolism, immunity and cancer for three years. Dr. Cristina Muñoz-Pinedo, head of the cell death research group at IDIBELL, will be coordinate the network, while Dr. Òscar Martínez-Tirado, leader of the IDIBELL’s sarcoma research group, will be among the supervisor researchers.
The ITN META-CAN brings together 10 research centers or biomedical companies from 6 countries (Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Israel and Austria), as well as an extensive network of collaborators. After the four years of the program, the 15 participants are expected to be able to navigate with ease between academic, industrial and clinical sectors and have the scientific and complementary skills to convert research findings into commercial and clinical applications.