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"Ernest Giralt, Uncle Peptide" is the title of an extensive interview with IRB Barcelona researcher and programme coordinator, Ernest Giralt, in the specialized website Sciengeist. Mark Peczuh, the interviewer, is an associate professor of Chemistry at the University of Connecticut who is spending some time in Barcelona with a Fullbright fellowship.
Ernest Giralt talks about his Peptides and Proteins Lab research on protein-protein recognition, the biomedical projects his lab is tackling, and his positive impressions about the centre, the Univeristy of Barcelona, where he is full professor, and Barcelona, as a place to work and live.
Read the interview in ScienceGeist: Direct link and PDF
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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).
