Professor Elías Campo collects the 2016 Rey Jaime I prize on Medical Research
The award ceremony for the 2016 Rey Jaime I prizes (28th edition) took place at the Llotja dels Mercaders in Valencia, on November 24. Elías Campo, professor at the Department of Basic Clinical Practice of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona, and research director at Clinic Hospital, was given Rey Jaime I Prize on Medical Research. The event was presided by the Kings of Spain and had the participation of the Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality, Dolors Montserrat.
Professor Campo led the studies on complete sequencing of the genome and epigenome of leukaemia, and co-directed a work of genome sequencing on normal and tumor cells of more than five hundred patients with chronic lymphatic leukaemia, the most common one in western countries. He is now the elected president of the President of the European Haematology Association and member of the International Governing Cancer Genome Consortium, and member of the International Lymphoma Study Group. In 2013 he was honored with the National Research Award, an institutional award by the Generalitat de Catalunya and Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation.
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The award ceremony for the 2016 Rey Jaime I prizes (28th edition) took place at the Llotja dels Mercaders in Valencia, on November 24. Elías Campo, professor at the Department of Basic Clinical Practice of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona, and research director at Clinic Hospital, was given Rey Jaime I Prize on Medical Research. The event was presided by the Kings of Spain and had the participation of the Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality, Dolors Montserrat.
Professor Campo led the studies on complete sequencing of the genome and epigenome of leukaemia, and co-directed a work of genome sequencing on normal and tumor cells of more than five hundred patients with chronic lymphatic leukaemia, the most common one in western countries. He is now the elected president of the President of the European Haematology Association and member of the International Governing Cancer Genome Consortium, and member of the International Lymphoma Study Group. In 2013 he was honored with the National Research Award, an institutional award by the Generalitat de Catalunya and Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation.
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