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CIBER-BBN awards Eduardo Pérez del Río for his work on 3D materials for immunotherapy

ICMAB Researcher Eduardo Pérez del Río, from the Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials (NANOMOL) Group, has been awarded for one of the 4 best publications by young researchers of 2020, according to CIBER-BBN, an association of 45 research groups of excellence in the fields of bioengineering, biomatrials and biomedicine.

Eduardo Pérez del Río

The award goes to the publication “CCL21-loaded 3D hydrogels for T cell expansion and differentiation” published in Biomaterials, which resulted from Eduardo Pérez del Río’s PhD thesis, supervised by Imma Ratera and Judith Guasch, and which he defended with honors in April 2020.

In this project, researchers are trying to improve the expansion of immune cells which can be a limiting step in the application of current cancer immunotherapies. The final objective is to obtain a higher number of resulting cells of better quality, through the use of a 3D material named PEG-Hep hydrogel. Their work in this direction is still not finished, according to Eduardo Pérez:

“Currently I am still working on this project, improving the material we used and increasing the TRL of this technology”.

The price consisted of 400 € and an invitation to deliver a talk in the XV Jornadas Anuales CIBER-BBN celebrated on November 15-16, 2021 online, and in which other ICMAB researchers participated.

“I’m very glad for this prize which for me means the recognition of a good work in a very interesting project.”, says Eduardo Pérez.

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21 December 2021