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.
EFE has published an article on the “BIO International Convention”, one of the main fairs organised by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and that takes place in Boston from today until Thursday, 7 June. In this event, special emphasis will be given to topics such as fundraising and new gene therapies, among others. IRB Barcelona, represented its Innovation Department is one of the institutions participating in this event.
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La Razón newspaper has published an article on the grants given by the European Research Council (ERC) to five researchers in Barcelona. Among these grants is the ERC Proof of Concept that Modesto Orozco, head of the Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics Lab at IRB Barcelona, has received. This grant will allow him to optimise and validate "2shRNA", a tool that can simultaneously attack two therapeutic targets involved in drug resistance pathways and that can also bind to other molecules to enhance their delivery and efficacy.
ABC, El Economista, Cope, among other media, have published articles about the ERC Proof of Concept grant awarded to Modesto Orozco, head of the Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics Lab at IRB Barcelona, to combat resistance in breast cancer.
Link to ABC
Link to El Economista
