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Eduard Batlle’s work on colon cancer and Patrick Aloy’s on the network biology of Alzheimer’s disease feature among the newspaper El Mundo’s list of the most promising ten lines of research performed in labs in Spain. These ten labs are recognised as having the capacity to provide new pieces of the puzzle and transform some aspects of our everyday lives. The newspaper drew up the list on the occasion of Researchers’ Night.
About IRB Barcelona
The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
