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Helena González, a PhD student with Travis Stracker's laboratory and Oriol Marimon, a PhD student of the University of Barcelona and an IRB Barcelona member until December 2012, are two of the eight finalists of FameLab Spain 2013. La Sexta Noticias devoted on Sunday a news story to the FameLab contest, an international festival of scientific monologues. On May 14, Spain will select its representative to participate in the FameLab final contest in Cheltenham Science Festival, in the UK.
Webiste: Internation FameLab - Talking science
La Sexta Noticias (click on part 3 -bottom right - and go to minute 12. note: be patient with the ads):
http://www.lasexta.com/videos/fin-de-semana-completo1/2013-abril-21-2013042100009.html
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).
