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IRB Barcelona director, Joan J. Guinovart, gets a green light from “El Periódico de Catalunya” for the "Crazy About Biomedicine" course, an initiative targeted at youngsters and supported by the “Fundació Catalunya- La Pedrera”. The journalist Antonio Madridejos devotes Monday’s article to training programmes run by the Centre for Genomic Regulation and IRB Barcelona that seek to promote scientific vocation among young students.
Read the article in El Periódico (PDF Spanish and Catalan)
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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).
