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The company Iproteos, a spin-off from IRB Barcelona cofounded by Ernest Giralt and Teresa Tarragó, both researchers at IRB, has already surpassed 80% of the funding requested in a fundraising campaign that was launched in mid 2014. This news is echoed in El Periódico de Catalunya. The objective is to finance a drug for the treatment of schizophrenia.

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).