The young doctors Gloria Álvarez and Marina Bárcena have received two grants from research for their postdoctoral stay abroad. Both have completed their programs of study of doctorate in the Hepatology Program of the Cima University of Navarra.

Gloria Álvarez Sola (Arnedo, 1985), from La Rioja, works at Cima under contract to the CIBER de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas. With a degree in Chemistry from the University of La Rioja, she has received the Sheila Sherlock postgraduate scholarship awarded by the association European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). "This scholarship will allow me to develop a project of research focused on identifying new biomarkers of biliary system disease that allow its detection in early stages", explains Gloria Álvarez. This project will last two years and will be led by Professor Steven Olde Damink, director of department of research in Surgery at Maastricht University (The Netherlands).

For her part, Marina Bárcena Varela (Barañáin, 1992), graduated in Biochemistry by the University of Navarra, has obtained the scholarship of Expansion of programs of study abroad granted by the association Spanish for the Study of the Liver (AEEH). "I will participate in a novel project focused on the finding accelerated of combinatorial and personalized immunotherapies to treat a subject of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma. This project is led by the Navarra researcher Amaia Lujambio at the School of Mount Sinai Medicine, in New York (USA)", says Marina Bárcena.