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The latest issue of the online newsletter of the Comissionat per a Universitats i Reserca, Recercat, features an interview with Eduard Batlle, coordinator of the Oncology Programme and ICREA researcher at IRB Barcelona. “Basic research on intestinal stem cells and its parallelisms with the growth and regeneration of intestinal tumors provides an innovative vision of how colorectal cancer grows and progresses”, explains Batlle.
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).
