BIO-Europe Spring 2017 backs Barcelona as the future HQ of the European Medicines Agency
On the occasion of the BIO-Europe Spring 2017 event in Barcelona, the newspaper “La Vanguardia” has published an article about the campaign to host the new headquarters of the London-based European Medicines Agency (EMA) after Brexit.
The article also includes a reference to the participation of IRB Barcelona’s Innovation Department in this three-day partnering conference for the biotechnology industry.
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La Vanguardia has devoted an article to the Senén Vilaró Prize for the best innovative company, which has recently been awarded to Nostrum Biodiscovery (NBD). This prize acknowledges the capacity of the technology developed by this company to allow pharmaceutical companies to speed up drug discovery and reduce the costs involved.
Nostrum Biodiscovery, a spin-off from IRB Barcelona and the BSC-CNS, focuses on computational simulation to design new drugs and biotech molecules for the market.
The Senén Vilaró Prize is given each year by the “Consejo Social” of the UB and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation to the best innovative company.
Israel Ramos is a drug discovery professional specialised in in vitro assay development support to research programs and compound characterisation. With his more than 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, he is currently working at the at IRB Barcelona Innovation department as Technology Transfer Consultant. Israel provides support to IRB Barcelona researchers by giving advice about the applicability of potential drug candidates based on IRB Barcelona discoveries.
