On 22 November,Iñigo Apaolaza made the public defence of his doctoral thesis, entitled"New approaches to Constraint-Based Modelling for the identification of metabolic therapeutic targets in cancer ", before the examining board chaired by Dr. Ángel Rubio Díaz-Cordovés.

After the defence of the thesis, all the members of the examining board congratulated Iñigo Apaolaza and his supervisor, Dr. Francisco Javier Planes Pedreño.