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“El Punt Avui” has included an article about the award given by the Club d’Amics de la Clau de Barcelona to Joan Massagué, scientific director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York and Chair of the External Advisory Board of IRB Barcelona. During the award ceremony, Massagué proposed that “research centres in Barcelona, even when on different sites, could join to form a large institution”, and specifically mentioned IRB Barcelona—of which he is co-founder—, CRG and ICFO. According to the researcher, a common front would be a “great opportunity for Barcelona to turn research and science into its great appeal”.
Read the article in “El Punt Avui” (in Catalan)
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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).
