News

• 5 August 2008
  Study questions validity of anti-inflammatory target

  Researchers at IRB Barcelona participate in Harvard University study, published in Nature Immunology

• 21 July 2008
  Why are there fewer female scientists at the top?

  Four women experts offer practical advice on how to maintain leadership positions in science in a Forum organized by IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation.

• 20 July 2008
  Discovery of a mechanism that regulates cell movement

  In Nature Cell Biology, researchers at IRB Barcelona describe a mechanism that governs adhesion between cells and therefore their capacity to move. The study may have implications in the fight against tumoral metastasis.

• 18 July 2008
  Barcelona loves Science

  The European Science Forum 2008 (ESOF 2008) will be held in Barcelona from 18 to 22 July.

• 2 July 2008
  Scientists reveal the key mechanisms for affinity between transient binding proteins

  The results have been published in the scientific journal PLoS One

• 12 June 2008
  Ernest Giralt inducted into the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona

  The coordinator of the Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Programme at IRB Barcelona is an international authority on the synthesis and design of biomolecules

• 2 June 2008
  Towards improved modeling of living organisms

  Leading scientists in the field from around the world come together to address the challenges in the sessions ‘Grand Challenges in Computational Biology’, opened by Josep Huguet

• 28 May 2008
  IRB Barcelona awarded prize for the best scientific research

  The "Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques" (Academy of Medical Sciences) confers the Josep Trueta prize to research on Lafora disease performed by Joan J. Guinovart’s lab

• 20 May 2008
  Research into metastasis will bring about treatments to fight cancer

  Twenty-three of the most renowned scientists working in the field of metastasis come together in Barcelona, invited by IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation. Among these, Tyler Jacks, Joan Massagué, Josep Baselga and the Nobel Prize winners Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus.

• 5 May 2008
  A study reveals how cells communicate to activate the cell division machinery

  The finding made in the fruit fly may provide clues to address problems such as the proliferation of malignant cells and tumour growth in humans