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Radio 5 (RNE) has reported on the “Spark” project, launched by the public-private consortium led by Iproteos, an IRB Barcelona and UB spin-off. IRB Barcelona, CRG, the University of the Basque Country, and the biopharmaceutical company Ascil-Biopharma are also involved in the project. The program includes statements by Javier Meana, researcher at the University of the Basque Country, and Teresa Tarragó, researcher at IRB Barcelona and co-founder of Iproteos.

Listen to the news on Radio 5 (04:30 minutes, 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).