Eduard Batlle is a molecular biologist at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute (IRB) He has been trying to unravel the functioning of colon cancer for three decades. colon cancer affects almost every year.

two million people in the world and causes more than 900,000 deaths. His discoveries about the behavior of tumor cells that spread outside the colon to form metastases have earned him, just 24 hours earlier, the National Research Award from the Generalitat of Catalonia. He warns that there is still much to know about colon cancer: for example, “understanding how these [tumor] cells escape” the available treatments.