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IRB Barcelona ICREA researcher, Xavier Salvatella, has been interviewed by Mark Peczuh, an associate professor of Chemistry at the University of Connecticut who is spending some time in Barcelona with a Fullbright fellowship. In the interview, posted in the portal ScienceGeist, Dr. Peczuh compared IRB Barcelona with the HHMI's Janelia Farm, a pioneering research center where scientists pursue biology's biggest challenges in a singular innovative and collaborative environment. Xavier Salvatella talks about his lab research on protein-protein interactions, the biomedical projects his lab is tackling, and his positive impressions about the center and Barcelona as a place to work and live.
Read the interview in ScienceGeist - Direct link (PDF)
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).
