3-Minute Thesis
The PhD student Jesús Daniel Gómez, from the doctoral programme in Biomedicine, will represent the University of Barcelona in the 3-Minute Thesis competition, organised by the Coimbra Group. The PhD student was selected from among other researchers in an event that took place on Monday 18 March. Laura Guzmán, from the doctoral programme in Research, Development and Control of Medicines, was a finalist.
The PhD student Jesús Daniel Gómez, from the doctoral programme in Biomedicine, will represent the University of Barcelona in the 3-Minute Thesis competition, organised by the Coimbra Group. The PhD student was selected from among other researchers in an event that took place on Monday 18 March. Laura Guzmán, from the doctoral programme in Research, Development and Control of Medicines, was a finalist.
Jesús Daniel Gómez's research focuses on the KRAS protein, “which is mutated in one out of every two cases of colorectal cancer”. Gómez studies phosphorylation, one of the main mechanisms for regulating protein activity, and specifically the role of KRAS protein phosphorylation in colorectal cancer processes. “It is basic research, but in the long term, the idea is to design drugs that inhibit this phosphorylation and thus reduce cancer-causing properties”, explains Gómez. The PhD student says that he has always liked popularising science and that the “3-Minute Thesis” competition is “an excellent opportunity to synthesise everything in a short period of time, so that everyone can understand it and it can be disseminated”.
The supervisor of Jesús Daniel Gómez's thesis is Neus Agell, professor of Biomedicine at the UB. The thesis of the finalist, Laura Guzmán, is supervised by Marta Barenys and Miren Ettcheto, from the UB’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences.
The “3-Minute Thesis” competition challenges PhD students to explain their research in English, in no more than three minutes, to a non-expert audience. In this way, it supports the doctoral students' findings and encourages them to communicate their research and explain its relevance to the community. All the information is available on the UB Divulga website.