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El Periódico de Catalunya reports on the ceremony held yesterday in CaixaForum Madrid, where 40 students received the "la Caixa" fellowships awards to persue a doctorate in biomedicine in four leading biomedical research centers in Spain. 10 of these students are working at the IRB Barcelona.
The journalist talked to, among others, IRB Barcelona PhD students Helea Khaisourane from France, Bahareh Eftekharzadeh from the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Joan J. Guinovart, IRB Barcelona director.
Read the news in several Spanish and Catalan media:
El Periódico de Catalunya (PDF in Catalan, PDF in Spanish)
El Mundo.es (PDF in Spanish)
ElPais.es (PDF in Spanish)
ABC (PDF in Spanish)
ABC.es (PDF in Spanish)
Cinco Días (PDF in Spanish)
La Vanguardia (PDF in Spanish)
La Gaceta de los Negocios (PDF in Spanish)
ARA (PDF in Catalan)
El Punt Avui (PDF in Catalan)
La Información.es (PDF in Spanish)
Informativos Tele5 (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).
