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Today’s issue of the newspaper ABC reports on the word of adjunct director of IRB Barcelona, Joan Massagué, on the current state and future of personalised cancer medicine. Joan Massagué is a member of the Scientific Committee of the congress “Towards Personalized Cancer Medicine”, organised by NYAS, “Talència” and “la Caixa” Foundation, which is being held in the CosmoCaixa Museum of Barcelona this week.

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).