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The newspaper ARA publishes a report on the growing resistance to antibiotics of bacterias. The article features the opinion of researcher Lluís Ribas de Pouplana, who through the spin off company, Omnia Molecular, is participating in a European project to discover new drugs.
Read the article in ARA (PDF 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).
