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The website ‘El tema de los temas’, devoted to quality, efficiency and productivity, has published an extensive interview with Joan J. Guinovart, director of IRB Barcelona, addressing controversial issues, such as adjustments in science funding, the running of research centres and the perception that Spanish society has of its scientists. "People should know that the benefits they enjoy —a good university, good hospitals and good research centres— are very large benefits that wouldn’t be available without this system of knowledge", says Guinovart.
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).
