A whole year deciphering unsolved diseases to improve people's lives
A whole year committed to you
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Welcome to 2019:
A year of achievements and challenges
2019 has been intense and highly productive, a year in which all the fields in which we conduct impactful science of excellence have been consolidated.
Frances Posas Garriga
IRB Barcelona Director
Committed to health research
![Valentina Maria Zinna, Salvador Aznar Benitah, Patrick Welz and Inés Marín Guillén, IRB Barcelona.](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/imagen_1.jpg?itok=Cqetg_N_)
![Microscopic view](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/Imagen.jpg?itok=UwzFIBNm)
![Predictive decision trees optimized to decide if a cancer mutation will become visible to the immune system. Rik G.H. Lindeboom, Radboud University.](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/randomforest.png?itok=5w6_uzei)
![Antonio Zorzano and his team at the Complex Metabolic Diseases and Mitochondria Lab have participated in this study. IRB Barcelona.](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/ndp_imagen_2_investigadores_del_irb_barcelona_identifican.jpg?itok=UxqQcwb0)
![Graphical Abstract Chemistry](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/Graphical-Abstract-Chem.jpg?itok=LPA4ycPo)
![Image Epstein's virus protein structure](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/imagen_estructura_de_la_proteina_portal_del_virus_de_epstein-barr_cristina_machon_irb_barcelona_3.jpg?itok=iWSyxx-t)
![Clara Campàs, founding partner of Asabys Partners, Salvador Aznar-Benitah and Valerie Vanhooren, founders of Ona Therapeutics, and Sergio Pérez, director of Sabadell Venture Capital](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_innovation_image_default_400x500/public/media/images/img_20190521_161147_R.jpg?itok=Xe2Ru2WI)
![Modesto Orozco during the award ceremony](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_innovation_image_default_400x500/public/media/images/2.jpg?itok=BQFdx1kv)
![Starlife’s presentation at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_innovation_image_default_400x500/public/media/images/starlife_R.jpg?itok=YJqcUXFX)
Committed to our people
- All
- Newcomers
- Training
- Awards
- Alumni
![Toni Gabaldon, head of the Comparative Genomics lab, IRB Barcelona and BSC-CNS.](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/gabaldon_toni_gabaldon.jpg?itok=0Q3TlPrO)
![ENABLE](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/ENABLEreducida.jpg?itok=aLScB7Y9)
![ICREA research professor Eduard Batlle](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/eduard_batlle_1b.jpg?itok=WL7LtrgI)
![Salvador Aznar Beniath, IRB Barcelona](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/Salvador-Aznar6.jpg?itok=mRh7PuPJ)
![Gloria Pascual, Research Associate at IRB Barcelona. Picture: Fundación Pfizer](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/gloria_pascual.jpeg?itok=uuIywwaw)
![Joan J. Guinovart, IRB Barcelona](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/rafc08.jpg?itok=c4PV0xjq)
![Francesc Posas, director of IRB Barcelona.](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/image_people_4.jpg?itok=e08J6_Ye)
![Ana Janic receiving the award](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/irb_excellence_award_ana_janic44_1.jpg?itok=G3c_jU9A)
![Fayna M. García, IRB Barcelona Alumni](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/fayna.jpg?itok=bR06LRKu)
![Scientists from all over the world gathered in Barcelona to analyze the development of cancer in Drosophila, the fruit fly whose characteristics accelerate the study of the disease](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/1.jpg?itok=s5lAoW72)
![Manuel Serrano](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_new_image_360x205/public/media/images/manuel_serrano.jpg?itok=R2JDWYLB)
Committed to funding organisations
![Roger Gomis, head of the Growth Control and Metastasis Laboratory, IRB Barcelona.](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/roger_gomis_1.jpg?itok=GDVoRNaK)
![El presidente de la AECC, Ignacio Muñoz, durante la ceremonia de entrega de las ayudas.](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/ignacio_munoz_presidente_aecc_wcrd.jpg?itok=ytGVIJoo)
![”la Caixa” Fellowship award ceremony](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/foto_ayudas_a_la_ciencia_y_la_i_nnovacion_la_caixa_2019_1_0.jpg?itok=qpmKbSKv)
![Photos of the presentation ceremony of the awards given by the Fundació La Marató](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/Marat%C3%B3.jpg?itok=D1deA5ZW)
Committed to society
- All
- Outreach
- Metastasis Challenge
- Social Responsibility
![IRB Barcelona’s Open Day](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/_mi_0125.jpg?itok=s-e7LsY0)
![Press conference at IRB Barcelona, presenting the #MetastasisChallenge](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/_mi_0845.jpg?itok=WsbZ9yM8)
![Activity at the Barcelona Science Festival](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/science%20festival%20%281%29.jpg?itok=gzwa4IFu)
![CALIPER](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/CALIPER.jpg?itok=fGB0IRp1)
![Antony Nevin, Artist in Residence 2019, at IRB Barcelona](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/img_0530_0.jpg?itok=r6nvJSni)
![Código ético](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/CodigoEticoReducida.jpg?itok=rr1AuzqO)
![IRB](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/Magdalena_2.jpg?itok=Ug_D15eH)
![Collaborators](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/styles/frontpage_portfolio_480x480/public/media/images/Entitats_Collaboradores_IRBBarcelona.jpg?itok=o4RtxEbV)
2019 in numbers
Publications
![Publications](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/media/images/100_sector.png)
160
Publications
![Q1 Publications](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/media/images/87_sector.png)
87.5%
Q1 Publications
SJR 2019
![D1 Publications](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/media/images/71_sector.png)
71.88%
D1 Publications
SJR 2019
Innovation
![Patent](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/media/images/innovation-01.png)
Priority patent applications and extensions
4
![Technologies](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/media/images/innovation-02.png)
New technologies scouted
11
![Spin-offs](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/media/images/innovation-03.png)
Active spin-offs (1)
4
![Agreements](/annualreport2019/sites/default/files/media/images/innovation-04.png)
Research Agreements with public and private entities
17