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Today the SINC Agency, the scientific news portal run by the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), publishes an extensive report on statistics, with a special focus on the potential of this science in biomedicine. The science journalist, Marta Palomo, goes through statistical applications in many disciplines with the help of experts David Rossell, at IRB Barcelona, Donald Berry, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, David Conesa, at the University of Valencia, and Marc Baguelin, at the Public Health Agency of London. All these experts were brought together during the Barcelona Biomed Conference entitled "Bayesian Methods in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics", organized at the end of December by IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation.
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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).
