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IRB Barcelona gains confidence of the Botín Foundation

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A detailed report in Tuesday's "Innovadores" supplement of the newspaper El Mundo on two IRB Barcelona projects financed by the Botíin Foundation. Eduard Batlle and Elena Sancho, and Modesto Orozco explain the challenges they face to develop their business projects (Colostage and Nostrum Drug Delivery, respectively), based on research coming from their laboratories.

Read the feature article in El Mundo (PDF in Spanish)

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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).