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The newspaper ABC devotes several lines to the award ceremony of the third edition of the ‘la Caixa’ fellowships, an event atended by the Minister of Science and innovation, Cristina Garmendia. The fellowships are given to finance PhD studies of young people from all over the world who want to do their doctoral studies in one of the four leading centres in Spain, which include IRB Barcelona.
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).
