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"El Periódico de Catalunya", as well as many other media, devotes an extensive report to two projects approved by the European Commission's FET-Flagships call, namely Graphene and the Human Brain. The report includes statements by Modesto Orozco, IRB Barcelona researcher, who, together with scientists at the BSC, UB and UPF, will be involved in simulating the human brain.
Read the news in El Periódico de Catalunya (PDF in Catalan)
More about the Human Brain Project in several Catalan and Spanish media:
Periodicodecatalunya.com (PDF Spanish, PDF Catalan)
La Vanguardia (PDF Spanish, PDF Catalan)
El PuntAVUi (PDF in Catalan)
Europa Press (PDF in Spanish)
Blog Ciència i Media Ambient (PDF in Catalan)
TV3 (PDF in Catalan)
e-notícies (PDF in Catalan)
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).
