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La Vanguardia devotes a report to the "Crazy about Biomedicine " course, run by IRB Barcelona and the Fundació Catalunya - La Pedrera. The Catalan newspaper gives a green traffic light to the director of the institute, Joan J. Guinovart, for this initiative. The programme seeks to train 24 baccalaureate students in life sciences with the objective to foster interest in science and scientific vocation.
Joan J. Guinovart, IRB Barcelona PhD students and teachers in the course Benjamí Oller, Anabel-Lis Le Roux, and students Sara Ávila and Martí Recort are quoted in the report.
Read the report in La Vanguardia (PDF)
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).
