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Joan Guinovart: "Death is a technical error"

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On Friday, the director of IRB Barcelona participated in the chat show Els Matins de TV3, where he talked about unlimited life, medical breakthroughs, and where violence stems from.

Joan J. Guinovart was accompanied in the studio by Xavier Trepat, research at IBEC, Begoña Roman, doctor of Philosophy, and Adolf Tobeña, full professor of Psychiatry at the UAB.

Link to Els Matins de TV3 (1h12)



 

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).