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The two centres will promote the exchange of PhD students and foster scientific collaboration.
Aware of the value of educational, cultural, and scientific exchanges, the director of IRB Barcelona, Joan J. Guinovart, and the director of the Center for Integrative Biology of the University of Trento, Alessandro Quattrone, have signed a collaboration agreement to support the exchange of PhD students between the two centres.
Approved at the end of July, the agreement seeks to increase contact between the labs hosted by the two institutes by means of PhD student exchanges, facilitating their registration in seminars, workshops and courses of interest to this community and, given the mutual interests of the two research centres, strengthening scientific collaboration.
The new programme is an addition to the international agreements that IRB Barcelona has established with the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (Kobe, Japan), the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)/Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Bangalore, India), the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology (Warsaw, Poland) and the Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (Nijmegen, the Netherlands).
About IRB Barcelona
The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
