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Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation funds twenty IDIBELL research projects

The subprogram of non-oriented basic research projects of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) will fund 20 projects IDIBELL with about three million Euros, according to the preliminary resolution.

The goal of this program is the promotion of quality research, evidenced by the internationalization of activities and the enhancement of the results for their scientist and technology impact, and for their contribution to solving social, economic and technology. MICINN also seeks breaking the trend of fragmentation of research groups and encourage multidisciplinary research.

IDIBELL presented 24 projects to the call, twenty of which have been approved and four have been excluded. The projects receiving funding MICINN are:

• The influence of unconscious emotional processing in cognitive control. A study of functional neuroimaging perspective. Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells.
• A multimodal neuroimaging approach to delineate pathways emotional, motor and cognitive cortico-striatal. Ruth de Diego.
• Analysis of gambling behavior in adolescents and young adults: from social to pathological. Susana Jiménez.
• Role of Checkpoint RPL11-P53 cell cycle in the development and treatment of Diamond Blackfan anemia (DBA).George Thomas.
• DNA Methylome of non-coding genome in cancer: beyond the microRNAs. Manel Esteller.
• Role of Sirtuins in Oxidative Stress Response Signaling and its functional association to chromatin and genome stability. Àlex Vaquero.
• Changes in methylation of DNA in autoimmune rheumatic diseases characterization of specific pathways cell-type. Esteban Ballestar.
• Role of antisense transcription in the epigenetic silencing in cancer. Sònia Guil.
• Study of the molecular framework responsible for initiating exit from mitosis. Ethel Queralt.
• HDAC7 in normal and aberrant lymphocite developement: elucidation of its mechanisms of action. Maribel Parra.
• RANK and RANKL in mammary progenitor cells and in initiating cells of breast cancer. Eva González-Suárez.
• Functional and molecular alterations in epidermal stem cells during aging, tumor initiation and progression. Puri Muñoz.
• Use of neurotoxins to study the nervous system. Joan Blasi.
• Genetic screening, molecular pathways and identification of therapeutic targets in relation to the tumor suppressor genes LKB1 and BRG1. Montse Sánchez-Céspedes.
• Aberration of genomic imprinting in cancer, a tumor initiating event or a consequence of epigenetic deregulation. David Monk.
• Addressing tumors strategies and transgenes expression to increase the power of oncolytic adenovirus. Ramon Alemany.
• Molecular and cellular specializations in retinal photoreceptor cells of vertebrates. Ana Méndez
• Study of AMPA receptors and their auxiliary subunits in the nervous system: physiological and pathophysiological role. David Soto.
• p38α in bone development, homeostasis and function. Francesc Ventura.
• Associated diseases to mutations in connexin and extracelular ATP. Carles Solsona.