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La Vanguardia devotes an extensive report to research conducted in Barcelona, the metropolitan area of which has become the most important scientific capital of the Mediterranean, together with Israel, within the last 25 years.
The report includes the testimony of Gemma Turon, PhD student with the Colorectal Cancer laboratory at IRB Barcelona, who has already published a paper as a co-first author in the EMBO Molecular Medicine journal. "There are now more opportunities, better prospects and more resources and excellence has stopped being an exception," La Vanguardia emphasizes.
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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).
