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The role of inflammation in obesity, Crohn’s disease, and diabetes

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“Diario Médico” has interviewed Antonio Zorzano, group leader of the Complex Metabolic Diseases and Mitochondria Laboratory at IRB Barcelona and full professor at the UB. Zorzano is the coordinator of the Inflames study, led by CIBER, which seeks to identify the mechanisms involved in the inflammatory processes in the obese, type 2 diabetics, and patients with Crohn’s disease, with the aim to obtain new therapeutic strategies for these diseases.

Read the interview in Diario Médico (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).