Oncologist Manel Esteller will join the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) as a researcher on November 10, according to information obtained by ARA. This follows his departure from the Josep Carreras Research Institute (IJC), where he had worked since 2019 and from which he was ultimately forced to leave due to alleged irregularities in the institution's accounts, malpractice, and internal complaints. as reported by the ARA After a year and a half of research, Esteller will now head a newly created group on epigenetics and cancer and will retain his ICREA accreditation—the Catalan government's talent recruitment program—and therefore his position and salary as a researcher of scientific excellence.

He is a scientist of the highest international prestige for his cancer research, but Manel Esteller didn't do his work solely with the resources available to him. Since 2019, the researcher has been directing the Josep Carreras Research Institute (IJC), a center that, as the ARA has advanced, has been forced to release the results of an audit that analyzed the institute's financial management over the past five years. This and other documents and testimony confirm the existence of a series of accounting irregularities, abuse of power, and impersonation of scientists to benefit the search for Esteller.

Oncologist and researcher Manel Esteller will assume, as of December 6, the director of cancer genomics research at The James Comprehensive Cancer Center (OSUCCC) at The Ohio State University (USA), where he will also serve as a professor of oncology. He will therefore leave the Josep Carreras Research Institute (IJC), where he has worked since 2019. According to the oncologist himself, he has communicated to the IJC that his intention is to combine his work in the United States with research in Catalonia through the Sant Pau Research Institute. Initially, Esteller wanted to maintain his position and salary as a researcher at Icrea—the Catalan government's talent acquisition program—which can reach 117,000 euros per year. However, following the publication of this article, he has finally requested a leave of absence.