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El Punt Avui and La Vanguardia have published an article about the European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept grants. Five of them were given to centres belonging to the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), two corresponding to researchers Eduard Batlle and Angel R. Nebreda at IRB Barcelona.
Link to La Vanguardia: España, líder en la última convocatoria de ciencia europea (in Spanish)
Link to El Punt Avui: Cinc recerques catalanes reconegudes amb les beques de l'ERC (in Catalan)
Link to La Vanguardia (PDF Spanish)
About IRB Barcelona
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).
