Mallorca lab gets €39,705 in Ibiza cancer research deal
Mallorca’s research institute gets €39,705 for laboratory supplies: the money comes from the Elena Torres Association’s annual charity dinner. It forms part of an agreement worth about €90,000 for two cancer research projects in the Balearic Islands. The association and the Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa) signed the agreement in Eivissa, Ibiza, on 1 October 2026, with Balearic Islands president Marga Prohens attending.
What the Mallorca funding buys
The €39,705 will pay for reagents and disposable materials used by an IdISBa platform on Mallorca that can analyse large numbers of samples. The platform supports biomedical research as well as work in fields including pharmacology and microbiology.
€50,000 a year for earlier detection
The association will also provide €50,000 a year to a cancer research team led by Dr Diego Marzese. The team studies molecular changes linked to aggressive cancers, including triple-negative breast cancer. It wants to find out whether those changes can be spotted early in the disease or before a tumour develops.
The researchers bring together clinical, genetic and epigenetic data, using computational biology. Their aim is to turn the findings into better ways to detect cancer early and tailor care to individual patients.
The Elena Torres Association was founded in 2015 to promote research into early cancer detection. According to the Balearic Islands government, it has since invested €1 million in a project led by researcher Priscila Monteiro Kosaka at the Spanish National Research Council.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com