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ARA publishes an article on the success of IRB Barcelona’s dance video. The director of the institute explains the importance of the awareness and fund-raising campaign and emphasizes that "people should know that, other than the taxes that they pay, they can also channel donations into research on a topic of interest to them, because it affects them and because it worries them."

 

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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).