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The institute has trained, only in the last five years, more than 50 students through the “Spend the summer at the Park!” programme
This summer IRB Barcelona labs will be hosting 5 university students in the 12th “Spend the summer at the Park!” programme, run by the Barcelona Science Park. In the second cycle of their degree studies, the participants will do a lab placement lasting between 2 and 3 months, during which time they will get hands-on experience of the pioneering projects in biomedicine being undertaken by the Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Cell Biology and Development, Oncology, and Molecular Medicine Programmes.
For IRB Barcelona, this initiative meets one of the missions of the centre, namely to promote scientific vocation and training of students. In fact, only in the last five years, the institute has hosted more than 50 university students. The 22 labs at IRB Barcelona and the 6 scientific platforms have trained young people in Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Biophysics, Physics, and Pharmacy degrees from universities in Catalonia, the rest of Spain and abroad.
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).
