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Science, experimentation, and nappies: how to combine highly demanding positions and motherhood

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Stracker
Group Leader
Tel.+34 93 40 31183

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Press & Communications Section Head
Tel.+34 93 40 37255

ARA newspaper has published an article about the difficulties to achieve a balance between professional and family life when working in high-level research —with a special emphasis on women. The article includes experiences of researchers from various centres, including Travis Stracker, group leader of the Laboratory of Genomic Instability and Cancer at IRB Barcelona.

Read the article in ARA newspaper (in Catalan).

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).