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The back page of "La Vanguardia" newspaper, section La Contra interviews Jules Hoffmann, holder of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Professor Hoffmann visited Barcelona on the occasion of the European Drosophila Research Congress, an event organised by scientists at IRB Barcelona, the CSIC and the UB that has brought 700 international researchers together in Barcelona.
Read the interview in "La Vanguardia" (PDF in Spanish, PDF in Catalan)
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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).
