IRB Barcelona News - Institutional

• 20 July 2010
  IRB Barcelona expands its cancer program with the hiring of Angel Nebreda from CNIO

  His group will focus on colon and breast cancer, metastasis, and the relation between inflammation and cancer.

• 6 July 2010
  "la Caixa" imports talent to IRB Barcelona to boost biomedical research

  By the end of 2011 IRB Barcelona will have 40 PhD students funded by “la Caixa”

• 23 June 2010
  Five young scientists at IRB Barcelona to attend the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany

  From 27 June to 2 July, five young scientists of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) are to attend the 60th Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany.

• 9 June 2010
  Eduard Batlle receives the Banc Sabadell Prize for biomedical research

  His studies address the initiation and progression of colon cancer, one of the tumours with greatest incidence worldwide.

• 7 May 2010
  The Spanish Biophysics Society awards prize to two scientists at IRB Barcelona

  Modesto Orozco receives the Bruker Prize and Pau Bernadó the I Prize for Young Investigators.

• 29 April 2010
  Biobusiness in Chicago

  IRB Barcelona to participate in the BIO International Convention, the world’s largest biotechnology convention.

• 26 March 2010
  IRB Barcelona joins forces with biotech companies to strengthen the search for new drugs

  Scientists Ernest Giralt and Miquel Pons receive funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to collaborate with biotech companies Intelligent Pharma and Lead Molecular Design.

• 16 March 2010
  Scientist Ernest Giralt recognized by the European Peptide Society

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

• 4 March 2010
  IRB Barcelona runs for Chile

  The Chilean community at the institute organises two initiatives to raise funds for the Teletón Foundation of Chile.

• 26 February 2010
  Joan Massagué named Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Jaén

  The Senate of the University of Jaén has awarded an honorary degree to the scientist Joan Massagué, adjunct director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Chairman of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Programme at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.