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Rafael del Pino cancer research grant

The Rafael del Pino Foundation renewed its collaboration agreement with the Spanish Cancer Association (in Spanish, AECC) to provide support for the Association’s Scientific Foundation by endowing a grant for cancer research which bears the name of the Founder, Rafael del Pino. The grant was awarded for the first time in 2006.

In 2008 the Rafael del Pino cancer research grant went to Katerina Strati, a Doctor in molecular and cellular biology for the National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid. Her research project is entitled “Papel de la telomerasa y la longitud telomérica en la reprogramación y función de células madre pluripotentes inducidas“ [The role of telomerase and telomeric length in the reprogramming and function of induced pluripotent stem cells].

HRH The Princess of Asturias presented the grant to Doctor Strati, accompanied by the Deputy Director of the Foundation, in a ceremony organised by the AECC on 18 September 2008 in Corunna.