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The supplement "El Cultural" of the newspaper "El Mundo" publishes an interview with researcher Modesto Orozco about supercomputation and the capacity to simulate biological processes. Orozco goes over some of the projects that his "Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics" lab is working on, such as "Nostrum Drug Discovery", which is funded by the Botín Foundation, and the European flagship the "Human Brain Project."
Read the interview in El Mundo - El Cultural (PDF in Spanish)
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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).
