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A report on “Recercat”, the research bulletin of the Government of Catalonia, on the capacity of researchers working in CERCA centres and universities in Catalonia to obtain competitive European funds from the ERC.
Among the recent awardees, ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona Eduard Batlle, who has received an Advanced ERC Grant of 2.5 million euros to study the tumour stem cells of colorectal cancer.
IRB Barcelona now boasts 5 ERC grants: 4 Advanced and 1 Starting.
Read the report in Recercat (PDF in Catalan)
IRB related news:
26 September 2013
Eduard Batlle receives an ERC Advanced Grant to study the cells that trigger colon cancer
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).
