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The IRB Barcelona director, Joan J. Guinovart, has contributed an opinion article to La Vanguardia entitled: "Es la hora de los investigadores", "Ara és l'hora, investigadors!". Guinovart claims for a reform in the way Spanish research centers, universities and research hospitals work in order to become more competitive.
You can read the article here:
La Vanguardia (PDF in Catalan, 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).
