Skip to main content

Paul Schimmel "It is difficult to study centenarians: they are very busy people"

Contact

Image
Press & Communications Section Head
Tel.+34 93 40 37255

The back page of “La Vanguardia” gives an interview with Paul Schimmel, guest speaker at the Barcelona Biomed Conference organized by IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation last December.

Schimmel talks about the research he is performing, how he made money with his science, and about the entrepreneurial culture in the United States.

Read the interview with Paul Schimmel in “La Vanguardia” (PDF Spanish,

PDF Catalan)

Link to “La Vanguardia”

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).