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The programme La Sexta Columna broadcasted by La Sexta has interviewed Patrick Aloy, head of the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology laboratory at IRB Barcelona, about the participation of his team in a European research project devoted to COVID-19. Aloy explains that the project will study the efficacy of more than 5000 drugs to fight this coronavirus. The scientist says, "If we do not get any results from these 5000 or 7000 compounds, we will have to widen the search and examine the million compounds that are available".
Link to: La Sexta Columna (minute 41: 10-42: 50)
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).
