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Scheme of therapeutic concept designed by IRB Barcelona. The protein frataxina binds to peptide shuttle (blue), allowing the protein to cross the blood brain barrier and reach the brain (IRB Barcelona)
Innovation - Associations of patients channel 80,000 € of their donations in a new 18-month project at the IRB
New research front to tackle Friedreich’s Ataxia
After chemotherapy, quiescent cells change their behaviour​, become active​ ​and regenerate all cell types in the intestine (in green). (F Barriga, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Cell Stem Cell
The intestine has a reservoir of stem cells that are resistant to chemotherapy
Marc Liesa, 2017 IRB Barcelona Alumni of Excellence Award.
Institutional
The 2017 IRB Barcelona Alumni of Excellence Award goes to Marc Liesa
LegoLish-Mot, the second prototype of LEGOLish. Image: Julien Colombelli, Core Facility Manager of the Advanced Digital Microscopy Laboratory at IRB Barcelona.
Outreach
The Youth Mobile Festival (YoMo) Barcelona hosts a cutting-edge fluorescence microscope built with Lego blocks
The fundraising campaign called "Future" (#IRBfutur) was launched at the end of 2016 to raise public awareness of the role that biomedical research plays in advancing medicine (L.T. Barone, IRB Barcelona)
Institutional
Donations give rise to a new IRB Barcelona PhD fellowship
The third edition of the PhD4MD programme is launched today
Institutional
2017 PhD4MD Programme is launched to bring research closer to clinical practice
Marco Milán.
Institutional
M. Milán: “To study how cells communicate with each other, perhaps the best model organism is the fruit fly”
Merus N.V. is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company developing innovative bispecific antibody therapeutics.
Innovation
IRB Barcelona and Merus form a research collaboration to develop antibodies targeting the tumor microenvironment
Antonio Zorzano, group leader of the Complex Metabolic Diseases and Mitochondria Laboratory at IRB Barcelona.
Institutional
Ramón Areces Foundation funds IRB Barcelona research on obesity

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