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The newspaper La Vanguardia has devoted an article to the strategy that Catalonia has taken to face the Spanish Science Law. The government has settled an institution that brings together 39 research centres in order to preserve the capability of international reference centres, such as IRB Barcelona to hire researchers that are leaders in their fields. "This would be very damaging" says Lluís Torner, president of the Catalan Association of Research Institutions.
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).
