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The newspaper "El Periódico de Catalunya" explains how Catalan research centres are getting it together to obtain competitive fundings that complement the structural operating budgets obtained from Public Administration.
The director of IRB Barcelona, Joan J. Guinovart, is of the opinion that “in a context like the current one it is a question of prioritizing. Only the most competitive institutes will go forward." The report also includes statement by directors Lluís Torner (ICFO), Miquel Àngel Pericàs (ICIQ), and Salvador Solà-Moya (Insitut de Paleontologia Crusafont), among others.
Read the news (PDF in Catalan)
El Periódico de Catalunya online
Link to the news on the ERC Advanced Grants success by IRB Barcelona researchers
Link to the news on Severo Ochoa Award to IRB Barcelona
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).
