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ICREA Researcher Patrick Aloy, leader of the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology group, has spoken with La Vanguardia about animal testing and what alternatives exist to reduce it. He and his team have developed two computer methods to predict which molecules could have negative effects in an organism, using the enormous quantity of data generated by the clinical essays in the last decades. These tools can foster the development of new drugs, reducing the use of experimentation animals.
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).
