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Joan J. Guinovart, director of IRB Barcelona, is one of the 50 most influential people in Barcelona , according to a list drawn up by the magazine Esquire Spain. Prof. Guinovart is the only scientist and director of a research centre that appears in the list, together with names like Isidre Fainé, president of CaixaBank, Joan Rosell, president of the CEOE, Antoni Brufau, president of Repsol, Fernando Amat, founder and director of Vinçon, and Josep Piqué, president of Vueling.
Consult the list in Esquire (PDF 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).
