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Outreach Award

The Olga Torres Foundation, together with five other Sabadell organisations, is organising the Science and Knowledge Night project with the aim of promoting scientific vocations among young people, publicising the research generated in the city and raising funds for a research project to be carried out in the city.

In order to contribute to the dissemination of medical-scientific research in the specific field of colorectal cancer and to increase the visibility of the work carried out by researchers, the Olga Torres Foundation organizes this annual award within the framework of the Science Night in Sabadell”.

List of awards

2018

Project: Comprehensive prevention of colorectal cancer: Collaboration of health professionals, Parc Taulí medical students and adolescents.

Authors: Drª Maria Lluïsa Baré Mañas

Receiving entity: Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí de Sabadell

Import: 9.000 €

2017

Project: Development of information dissemination capsules on colorectal cancer prevention on the platform “Mejor Sin Cáncer” of ICO/IDIBELL.

Authors: Drª Laura Costas, epidemiòloga coordinadora de la plataforma i Drª Gemma Binefa, head of the ICO’s Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme.

Receiving institution: Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge IDIBELL de l’Hospitalet de Llobregat

Import: 9.000 €