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El País publishes an extensive interview with the adjunct director of IRB Barcelona, Joan Massagué. Using metaphors, Massagué explains how a tumour forms and the mechanisms by which we can counteract this process. During the interview he also comments on the present state of research in Spain, emphasizing the cuts in funding. Joan Massagué warns that “Building something is difficult, destroying it is very easy, reconstructing it is almost impossible”.
Read the full interview in El País (PDF in Spanish).
Also available a smaller version in English (PDF in English).
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).
