🚀 Fully Funded PhD Position in Immunity, Aging & Metabolism – Join Our UNION Marie Curie Network! 🔬 Are you passionate about aging, frailty, immunity, and metabolism? Do you want to join our research Network while working in a cutting-edge, international environment?

🚀Last week, we hosted Daniel Fernandez Perez from the Fraticelli lab as our #JournalClub speaker! Stem cells have inherent biases toward certain cell fates. Daniel and his team developed ways to read these biases, which may reveal blood cancer origins. 👉fraticellilab.com

#BookOfTheMonth 📚 Surviving cancer may seem like a victory, but like war veterans, survivors are haunted by trauma, relapse, and late effects. This month, we recommend The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde—a raw, honest account of breast cancer survival. 👉en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cance…

🚨 10 days left! 🚨 2 POSTDOC positions Barcelona - The metabolically aged microenvironment in immune evasion and cancer HOW TO APPLY: MSCA-funded position: lnkd.in/dec9SCHC​ Lab-funded position: lnkd.in/dZvTDhqB Learn more at: mauslab.org

🚨 3 days left! 🚨 2 POSTDOC positions The metabolically aged microenvironment in immune evasion and cancer Aging and Cancer Lab, VHIO, Barcelona Learn more at: mauslab.org/join-us

#JournalClub "Ian W. Folkert, MD, PhD and the Haldar lab show that iron-rich tumor-associated macrophages shape anti-tumor immunity — pointing to a promising new target to boost immunotherapy responses." - Marc Guasch, PhD student rupress.org/jem/article/22…

#JournalClub "We’re born as genomic mosaics, each cell unique. With age, this diversity is overtaken by a few dominant clones — a shift linked to frailty. Mack et al. dive into large human datasets to uncover what drives this process." - Mate Maus nature.com/articles/s4358…

🚀 Recently, we welcomed Sefora Conti as our #JournalClub invited speaker! She shared how she has used tools from mechanobiology, meta-analysis, and bioinformatics to uncover what drives metastasis in gastrointestinal tumors. 👉vhio.net/pf/upper-gastr…

Exciting news!

50 people committed to changing science, policy, and medicine in Spain - preparing for the coming tide of rising cancer incidence in the decade ahead. It has been humbling and inspiring to be part of this effort. FERO Retreat, Valencia - Fundación Fero

Imagine a world where you can choose your child’s traits or rewrite your own genes to cure disease or extend life. This month, we recommend The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee — a gripping history of how we came to understand, and are beginning to rewrite, the code of inheritance.

Francesca Cogo (PhD student) at #JournalClub: Danian Chen et al. show that shorter cell cycle duration increases susceptibility to tumor initiation—making it a key hallmark of cancer initiation. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Mate Maus at #JournalClub: Fascinating study from Miriam Merad, MD, PhD’s lab suggests our aging immune system may drive cancer. With age, bone marrow–derived monocyte-lineage cells replace resident lung myeloid cells — fueling tumor growth via IL-1 secretion. 👉science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Tatiana Cañeque et al. (Rodriguez lab) develop Fento-1, a new molecule that eliminates therapy-resistant CD44⁺ cancer stem cells by targeting lysosomal iron and inducing ferroptosis. Presented by PhD student Francesca Cogo at #JournalClub. nature.com/articles/s4158…

The 10th Annual International Cell Senescence Association (ICSA) Meeting is set for Rome, Italy, on September 17–19, 2025. icsa2025rome.com/en/summary/hom…

Atherosclerotic burden drives cardiovascular events in the elderly. José Javier Fuster et al. showed TET2-mutant blood cells—common in elderly—accelerate atherosclerosis. Aging bone marrow may fuel cardiovascular aging. Ning Huang #JournalClub. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚀 Recently, we welcomed Agnese Brischetto as our #JournalClub invited speaker! She shared insights into the biology of psoriasis—an autoimmune skin condition affecting ~3% of the population—along with intriguing findings on potential new treatments. 👉clinicbarcelona.org/en/idibaps/are…

An increasing number of young individuals are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. This week, we hosted medical oncologist Iosune Baraibar, who shared what she at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), and Dana-Farber collaborators are doing to understand and act on this epidemic. Honored to work at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO).

Scientists in Beijing just made mice regenerate ear tissue—cartilage, skin, nerves, even hair - by reactivating an evolutionary lost gene enhancer important for the production of retinoic acid. Exciting step toward mammalian regeneration. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Surprise from the Amazon and Malaysian jungles: in 3,000 adults, inflammation did not rise with age—unlike it the industrialized world. Long seen as a cause of aging, chronic inflammation may instead be a byproduct of modern life. Time to rethink aging. nature.com/articles/s4358…