IRB Barcelona News - Institutional

• 24 January 2012
  IRB Barcelona receives 20% of the ERC Advanced Grants awarded in Spain

  Professors Cayetano González, Angel R. Nebreda and Modesto Orozco have each been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, the first two in the category of Life Sciences and the last one in Physical Sciences and Engineering.

  Only 13% of European researchers who have presented a project in the 2011 call passed the screening process.

  Each project will receive funding of approx. 2.5 million euros over five years.

• 12 January 2012
  Project to develop a new treatment for brain cancer

  The “Generalitat de Catalunya” awards funds to a research on glioblastomas conducted by VHIO and IRB Barcelona.

• 28 November 2011
  The Severo Ochoa Programme recognizes IRB Barcelona as one of the eight top research centres in Spain

  Today the Minister of Science and Innovation, Cristina Garmendia, has presented the distinctions to the directors of the awarded centres.

• 23 November 2011
  Support for innovation at IRB Barcelona

  The Ministry of Science and Innovation gives an INNCIDE award to the centre’s strategic technology transfer project.

• 23 November 2011
  IRB Barcelona trains secondary school teachers in biomedicine

  This initiative is a practical course on cell biology that aims to improve science teaching in secondary schools.

• 21 November 2011
  Barcelona debates medicine of the future

  ICREA invites experts from the fields of biology and pharmacology to Barcelona to discuss modern medicine based on biological interaction networks.

• 16 November 2011
  Nobel Prize winner Aaron Ciechanover, guest of honour at the II PhD Student Symposium

  The Israeli researcher and another eight scientists from leading international centres in biomedical research join an initiative that will attract 170 international PhD students to Barcelona.

• 14 November 2011
  Science Week 2011 at the IRB Barcelona

  As part of the 16th Science Week, which is being held this year from the 18th to the 27th of November, the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) participates in a series of scientific dissemination activities organized by the Barcelona Science Park (PCB): open house sessions “Come and do an Express Doctorate!” and the cycle of scientific workshops “Do Research!”.

• 26 October 2011
  Modesto Orozco receives an ERC Advanced Grant, the most prestigious funding awarded for scientific projects in Europe

  Awarded by the European Research Council and providing funding of around 2 and 3 million Euros over five years, ERC Advanced Grants are given to a limited number of senior scientists.

  The multidisciplinary project awarded within the category of Physical Sciences and Engineering is specialized in chemistry and computational biology, structural biology, biophysics, and bioinformatics and will have direct applications in several fields of biomedicine, such as the regulation of gene expression, and epigenetic mechanisms.

• 20 October 2011
  Salvatella: “To achieve better drugs we have to start using information about protein movements”

  • Current drug design is based above all on static “images” of target macromolecules, a powerful approach but one that is not realistic enough on occasions.

  • New experimental techniques and computational simulation now allow researchers to see protein movements at relevant time-scales in order to gather information about their function.

  • Twenty international experts in several techniques will discuss the future of the field in a new Barcelona BioMed Conference involving 150 participants.