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In its special 1,500th issue, the weekly newsmagazine El Temps includes a 6-page interview with IRB Barcelona adjunct director, Joan Massagué. The interview takes a look at his career and which important decisions he has made along the way. He gives his opinion about the current state of research in Spain and Catalonia, focusing on the decrease in funding. According to Massagué: “if we stop investing in science, we will lose not only the resources we have invested so far but also the international credibility we have achieved.”
Link to the interview in El Temps (PDF)
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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).
