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The newspaper “El País” includes the announcement made by US President, Barack Obama, about the project to build a supercomputer capable of performing a trillion calculations per second. The article includes statements made by Modesto Orozco, Group Leader at IRB Barcelona, Director of Life Sciences at the BSC-CNS and Professor at the UB, who gives his opinion about the impact that this project might have on the field of biomedical research.
Read the article in El País (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).
