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“El Magazine” of “La Vanguardia” devotes an article to Joan Massagué, Josep Basega, and Valentí Fuster, three people from Barcelona who have settled in New York, where they hold positions of great responsibility in biomedical centres.
Joan Massagué, cofounder of IRB Barcelona and current chair of its External Advisory Committee, heads 1200 researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute, the research arm of one of the main hospitals in the United States, namely the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Read the report "Magazine" of "La Vanguardia" (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).
