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La Razón devotes an article to the research performed by Manuel Serrano at IRB Barcelona’s Cellular Plasticity and Disease laboratory, promoted by the ICREA programme and the Obra Social "la Caixa".
"Our goal is to find experimental compounds that have the capacity to kill the damaged cells that are generated in everyone and that, beyond a given a level, can lead to disease," explains Manuel Serrano. And he adds, "nowadays there are compounds capable of killing damaged cells while causing minimal deterioration of healthy cells”.
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).
