It is no novelty influence the monumental work of Joan Massagué and his team from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he is director of Biology and Cancer Genetics. Massagué, awarded in 2004 with the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, has for two decades in the United States to develop his career and achieved great success in research. Massagué is also a researcher at the prestigious Howard Hughes Institute, deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Research and a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the European Molecular Biology Organization .

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