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Salvador Aznar Benitah, ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona, has been awarded the 2016 "Premi Ciutat de Barcelona" in its Life Sciences category. The Barcelona City Council acknowledges Salvador Aznar Benitah’s research published in Nature.
The award ceremony, presided over by the Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and the Deputy Mayor for Enterprise, Culture and Innovation, Jaume Collboni, took place on 16 February in the “Saló de Cent” of the Barcelona City Hall.
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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).
