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Promoted by the Barcelona Science Park and the Catalunya-La Pedrera Foundation, the programme allows baccalaureate students to do the practical work for their research projects in labs at the Park.
The IRB PhD students Benjamí Oller and Enrique Arenas have tutored the awardees.
The “Recerca a Secundària” Programme run by the Barcelona Science Park and the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation has selected two research projects undertaken at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) to be among the best three done this year. Martí Jiménez Mausbach, from the school Hamelin International LAIE, and Anna Sagrera Cots, from the IES Ausiàs March, were presented with the prize yesterday in an act held in the auditorium of the “La Pedrera” building.
Martí Jiménez Mausbach, who also participated in the IRB’s first “Crazy About Biomedicine” programme, worked on a project entitled “Towards a Nanotheragnostic Approach against Alzheimer’s Disease”, under the supervision of Benjamí Oller. Oller works in Ernest Giralt’s lab, which is devoted to the design and synthesis of peptides and proteins.
Anna Sagrera Cots has received the prize for the project entitled ‘The hidden face of progesterone in breast cancer’. She was tutored by Enrique Arenes, who works in Roger Gomis’ lab, which focuses on breast cancer metastasis.
In the 2013-14 “Recerca a Secundària” Programme, IRB scientists have supervised 34 projects, covering all the research programmes of the institute.
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).
