News

• 3 August 2009
  Protecting cells from their neighbours

  An IRB Barcelona research team discovers the mechanism that favours the correct separation of germ cells –future ovules and sperm-, from the rest of the cells during embryonic development.

• 22 July 2009
  Project given the go-ahead to develop new anti-cancer drugs

  “Bisthiazol” is funded by the Agency for Assessing and Marketing Research Results, run by the University of Barcelona (UB), and the Santander Bank.

• 20 July 2009
  Researchers at IRB Barcelona identify a promising molecule to regenerate neurons

  The compound stimulates the growth of damaged axons in mouse neurons in vitro.

• 20 July 2009
  “la Caixa” presents young talents with PhD fellowships in biomedicine

  At the end of 2011, IRB Barcelona will host 40 PhD students supported by this organisation.

• 17 July 2009
  President Montilla visits IRB Barcelona

  The directors Joan J. Guinovart and Joan Massagué present the MetCentre during an institutional visit by the President of the Government of Catalonia.

• 8 July 2009
  University students spend the summer at IRB Barcelona
• 2 July 2009
  Discovery of the key to the success of some of the most virulent bacteria

  Researchers at IBEC, IRB Barcelona and the UB identify the strategy used by enterobacteria to acquire resistance and pathogenicity.

• 18 June 2009
  Joan Massagué receives the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine

  The adjunct director of IRB Barcelona has been granted the award in recognition of his outstanding work in cancer metastasis.

• 25 May 2009
  Researchers explain how the replication of bacterial plasmids starts

  The study, published in the EMBO Journal, describes the structure and functions of the protein initiator of gene replication.

• 22 May 2009
  A brief history of mankind

  The researcher Jordi Casanova publishes an essay on how science today can help us to understand that way we are.