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La Vanguardia newspaper reports the imminent start-up of research activities in Prof. Massagué's lab at IRB Barcelona
Today, La Vanguardia newspaper has devoted a full page article to the Metlab, which is about to start its research activities. Metlab, an initiative of Prof. Joan Massagué, will be managed by Dr. Roger Gomis, who has been working with Massagué at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York for the last three years.
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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).
