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TV3, the Catalan television station, broadcast a news item about the programme, "Crazy About Biomedicine". Helena González, PhD student at IRB Barcelona and mentor in this course, and students Sheila Casas and Martí Jiménez appear in the video, together with other students who are taking part in the course.

Watch the video here:

http://www.324.cat/video/4485932/Bojos-per-la-biomedicina-iniciativa-per-despertar-linteres-per-la-ciencia-als-estudiants

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).