The AECC and the UJI sign the agreement for a second predoctoral scholarship, endowed with 106,000 euros, to study glioblastoma



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## The AECC and the UJI sign the agreement for a second predoctoral scholarship, endowed with 106,000 euros, to study glioblastoma

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The provincial board of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) has awarded its second predoctoral scholarship, on this occasion to Elvira Carbonell Martínez, a doctoral student at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, to carry out a project focused on one of the tumours with the worst prognosis, called glioblastoma. The prognosis for this brain tumour has not improved since 2005 and there is a pressing need to advance research on this disease.

The Rector of the UJI, Eva Alcón, accompanied by the Vice-Rector for Research, Jesús Lancis, the joint supervisor of the thesis, the lecturer María Ángeles Marqués, and the doctoral student Elvira Carbonell, has signed a business collaboration agreement with the president of the Castelló branch of the AECC, Carlos Ulldemolins, who was accompanied by the provincial director of the association, Salomé Esteller, and the psychologist specialised in health and safety, María Valero.

The study will focus on determining the molecular mechanisms underpinning the tumour stem cells, which in glioblastoma are dormant and therefore resistant to conventional anti-tumour therapies. This leads to a recurrence of the tumour in the short term. Understanding these mechanisms will make it possible to design therapies that will prolong the lives of these patients and bring us closer to a complete solution for this currently incurable disease.

The research, directed by the researchers Ángeles Marqués Torrejón and Conrado Martínez Cadenas, of the [Oncogenoma](https://www.uji.es/serveis/ocit/base/grupsinvestigacio/detall?codi=285) research group, will be carried out at the Predepartmental Unit of Medicine of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the UJI over the next few years. The agreement provides for the employment of the doctoral student for three years with a possible extension of one more year, endowed with €73,500 and a further €27,100 if it is extended.

These types of scholarships are financed thanks to the efforts of the people of Castelló and, in particular, to the efforts of the volunteers of the provincial board of the [Castelló branch of the AECC](https://www.contraelcancer.es/es/sobre-nosotros/donde-estamos/sede-castellon) who, in a totally altruistic way, take to the streets in all the fundraising campaigns to raise money both to help patients and to invest in research.

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