Dissemination and Exploitation activities: All the results raised during the course of this action will be published soon in a peer-review journal like “Nature Cell Biology”. The research paper is generally entitled by “The role of the epigenetic regulators Nsd2 and SWI/SNF complex in castration resistant prostate cancer”, and will be available to the research community through open access journal, in order to make the scientific observations generated during this MSCA freely available to the scientific community and to the general public as well. Additionally, IDIBELL institute, where this action took place, has a close proximity to both hospital centers (Bellvitge University Hospital and ICO) and academic center (University of Barcelona), promoting Dr. EL BIZRI to communicate with investigators of both clinical and basic research through (in person meetings and online seminars/conferences due to COVID pandemic). Moreover, “No website has been developed for the project”.
o Conference, workshop attendance, and /or seminar presentations:
8 virtual national and international conferences and seminars were attended by Dr. Rana EL BIZRI during this action. Due to COVID, a lot of internships and in person meetings were cancelled and thus the mobility funding amount was not used.
Communication and outreach activities: Communication and public engagement strategy is central in the MSCA fellowship and I am enthusiastic about communicating my research and my inspirational story about getting to this position to scientific and lay audiences. Therefore, my communicational activities during this MSCA year are as following: i. Scientific Twitter account: Dr. Rana EL BIZRI (MSCA-IF recipient) has created Twitter account @Eb90Rana with the idea of offering access to the research progress and reinforces outreach and knowledge transfer. This twitter account serves the broad purpose of being a window to the life of a MSCA fellow and a scientist in the biomedical field in Europe and Worldwide. Specifically, Dr. EL BIZRI posts scientific news for (conferences, workshops, seminars, publications, etc.), videos for the support of cancer patients worldwide, and innovative personal videos like disseminating her idea about creating of scientific passport. Notably, Dr. EL BIZRI always uses a format and vocabulary suitable for all audiences with the hash tag of #MSCA; #womeninscience; #academictwitter and #prostatecancer.
ii. Participating in activities to young students in Lebanon and Spain. I am volunteering to make inspirational and scientific presentations to young students in Lebanon where I talked about my path towards the MSCA fellow.
iii. Communication in the mass media: I did with my team members at Aytes Lab an international scientific video for “Movember” event to raise awareness of men´s health issues, such as prostate cancer in both November 2020 and 2021. This video was shared at the outstanding IDIBELL and ICO communication units. Plus, I am volunteering to communicate via facebook and emails with the “Lebanese scientific community”
