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Seeds of Prosperity, the CancerTec initiative

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Several Catalan and Spanish newspapers echo the news of the presentation by the Generalitat de Catalunya and “la Caixa” Foundation of five research projects —among them IRB Barcelona's CancerTec— to receive a total of 2.5 million euros funding. With CancerTec, IRB Barcelona has established a transversal and dynamic structure to detect and accelerate projects with high potential to be transferred to industry in the form of new diagnostic tools and more efficient and innovative cancer treatments.

Read the news in El Punt (PDF in Catalan)

More on CancerTec presentation in the press:

La Vanguardia (PDF in Catalan)

El Mundo (PDF in Spanish)

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).