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Duszyński serves as member of IRB Barcelona’s Board of Trustees since 2014
Biochemist Jerzy Duszyński, current member of IRB Barcelona's Board of Trustees and head of the Laboratory of the Bioenergetics and Biomembranes at the Nencki Institute, has been elected to serve as the next President of the Polish Academy of Science. Duszyński will occupy this position for four years until 2018.
The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, founded in 1952, is the national learned society for Poland that acts through an elected corporation of top scholars and research organizations, via its numerous scientific establishments. It has also become a major national scientific advisory body. It comprises 79 scientific institutes, research centres and stations, botanical gardens, museums, libraries and other research units.
Duszyński is one of the nine members of IRB Barcelona’s Board of Trustees and was appointed in 2014. The Board of Trustees is responsible for overseeing research activities at the Institute, approving operating funds and ensuring that annual goals are met.
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).
