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IRB Barcelona director, Joan J. Guinovart, is interviewed in El País above researcher mobility and the brain drain, and the difficulty to attract and retain talent, something that very few centres can achieve. Regarding the brain drain, Guinovart considers that "those who leave will miss Spain but they will have an easy and respectable life with a good salary and career opportunities. But society will be impoverished". According to Guinovart, the solution lies in correcting the model, by building a flexible, sharp and efficient system. There are examples of this."
Interview with Joan J. Guinovart in El País (PDF in Spanish)
Link to the interview in El País on line
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).
