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Research Scholarship Award to Mr. Juan Francisco Peña Cardelles

Written by Miguel Cordero Guerra

The College of Dentists and Stomatologists of the First Region (COEM), has awarded this year the Research Scholarship Award to a researcher from the Rey Juan Carlos University, Juan Francisco Peña Cardelles, a doctoral student from the Rey Juan Carlos University, graduated in Dentistry and Master in Oral Surgery and Implantology from the same University.

An Award that represents a great recognition of the research project and that is accompanied by a significant financial amount (the highest granted by a professional dental school in Spain) to help the researcher in his doctoral thesis project.

 

The research that is being carried out aims to determine the expression of molecules with a great impact on the evolution of cancers, the PD1 and PD-L1 molecules. In this case, the study on oral squamous cell carcinoma is being carried out. Unprecedented research in our country and that is being carried out within the Rey Juan Carlos University and the La Paz University Hospital.