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The business newspaper Cinco Días has placed Catalonia at the Spanish vanguard of the biotechnological field. Biocat is the organization that promotes and coordinates the efforts carried out in this region and that hosts 21% of the biotech companies in the country. Montserrat Vendrell, general director of Biocat, highlights the quality of hospitals and public research centres in this autonomous region and draws attention to IRB Barcelona, and the work performed by its Adjunct Director Joan Massagué to consolidate it as a reference centre, as an example of success.
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).
