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Joan J. Guinovart, director of IRB Barcelona, and ICREA researcher Salvador Aznar Benitah were invited by English Radio host Virgil Simons on RKB to talk about cancer research, what it means to be a researcher and what this job is like, with a special emphasis on the need to raise funds for biomedical investigation.
“Research activities aim to provide new knowledge, to understand what was not understood in the past. In order to do that, you need money, so the first job of a researcher is, in fact, to raise money. And we need a lot of funding for biomedical investigation nowadays,” explains Joan Guinovart.
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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).
