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The latest issue of Chemistry World, a specialized journal in chemistry, features Xavier Salvatella, ICREA professor at IRB Barcelona, in an article entitled “Tracking the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease”. As an expert on protein aggregations, Salvatella gives his opinion about a study recently published in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics in which scientists monitor protein aggregates in the first stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
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).
