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A "Crazy About Biomedicine" student wins an advanced bioinformatics contest

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Muriel Arimon
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Eric Matamoros, one of the participants in the 2016 Crazy About Biomedicine course, has won the CosmoCaixa prize for an essay on advanced bioinformatics.
 
Crazy About Biomedicine is a one-year course aimed at students in their first baccalaureate year wishing to explore some of the fascinating discoveries being made in the life sciences.

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).