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The brain, the final frontier

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The newspaper “El Periódico de Catalunya” devotes an extensive article to the two flagship projects on the human brain launched almost simultaneously by the United States and Europe. IRB Barcelona researcher Modesto Orozco talks about the European “Human Brain” Project in which he is involved.

Read the article in "El Periódico de Catalunya" (PDF in Catalan, PDF in Spanish)

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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).