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The newspaper La Vanguardia devotes an opinion piece to the Gold Medal Award of the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute to three Spaniards working in the U.S., including Joan Massagué, Adjunct Director of IRB Barcelona. Fernando Aleu, who received this award in 2003 and is the author of the article, welcomed the recognition of the role of these three men in the consolidation of Spain's image in the United States. Apart from Joan Massagué, who has received the award in recognition of his scientific career and combines his work as director of the Department of Genetics and Biology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and his position as IRB Barcelona Adjunct Director; also have been awarded Isak Andik, founder of Mango and Josep Baselga, renowned scientist and Head of Oncology at the Hospital Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona and director of Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
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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).
