• The Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute’s (IJC) acute myeloid leukaemia research group, directed by Dr. Ruth M. Risueño, has published a paper in the prestigious journal Leukemia, considered to be the most important journal in the field of hematology.
• The study, the main author of which is Amaia Etxabe, has identified the importance of the serotonin receptor type 1 (HTR1) for therapy in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).
• Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is the most common leukaemia in adults and accounts for 40% of all leukaemias in the western world. It is estimated that every year there are 15 new cases per million in our country.