News from last week: Collaboration, grant award and new appointment
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Dr. Adams talking about melanoma genetics
Then, on Wednesday, we received excellent news: The Wellcome Trust, the world’s largest medical research charity, has decided to fund us through a Seed Award in Science for the next two years! This means we now have funding to study cancer samples collected in Mexico and elucidate genetic causes and drivers of malignancy in our population. We are very thankful to them and super excited to start working on these projects! Colleagues and people in the lab planned a little surprise celebration as this is the first grant our young lab has got. A few pics from the celebration:
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Happy grant day indeed!
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From left to right, Helena (bachelor student in the lab), Raúl (PhD student in the lab), Daniela and Lucía (Group leader at LIIGH)
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Happy times! From left to right, Daniela, Helena, Lucía and Mari (Group leader at LIIGH)