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Massagué: "Access to the genome of an individual will not generate problems"

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Today the national edition of El País reports on the statements made by Joan Massagué during a telephone press conference after being selected for the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine.

El País is the newspaper with greatest diffusion in Spain, with a circulation of more than half a million copies per day. This newspaper belongs to the PRISA Communication Group and its first edition was published on 4 May 1976.

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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).