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Researchers at IRB, Jordi Duran and Modesto Orozco, have been consulted by the journalist Cristina Sáez for an article on memory for the Magazine of "La Vanguardia".
Jordi Duran, associate researcher with Joan Guinovart's group, studies the implications of glycogen on memory function and learning. Modesto Orozco, an expert in biocomputation, is one of the researchers involved in the Human Brain Project, the European initiative that seeks to simulate how the brain works within the next 10 years.
Read the article in La Vanguardia (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).
