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IRB Barcelona Executive Board president main's mission is to boost research in biomedicine and health sciences in Spain. IRB Barcelona Executive Board president, José J Navas, has been appointed new General Director of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. His main responsibilities will be to lead and coordinate the activities of the ISCIII in order to advance research in biomedicine and health sciences in Spain, and to enhance public research recognition at an international level. The ISCIII, created in 1986, is a national public research and scientific support organization responsible for promoting biomedical and health science research. Its mission is to develop and provide the highest quality scientific-technical services to the National Healthcare System and society in general.
Dr Navas (1948) has served as Director of the Research Centres Programme of the Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia, as well as Scientific Director of the Institut Català de la Salut, and Medical Director of the Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol. As president of the Executive Board and member of the Board of Trustees of IRB Barcelona since its foundation, he has played a key role in shaping the Institute's strategic research directions.
Navas, who holds a doctorate in Medicine and degrees in Medicine and Surgery, has published more than 200 scientific papers in the fields of structural pathology, immunopathology, molecular biology of cancer and health management.
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).
