News

• 23 December 2008
  IRB Barcelona to coordinate two European projects on biomedicine

  Europe has given the go-ahead to researchers Ribas de Pouplana and Zorzano to head studies into malaria and diabetes, two diseases that affect millions of people worldwide.

• 12 December 2008
  American Association for Cancer Research awards Joan Massagué

  Massagué has been selected to receive the award for his groundbreaking studies on breast cancer metastasis.

• 10 December 2008
  IRB Barcelona participates in the "2008 Nobel Prizes" lectures, organized by the Catalan Academy

  Researcher Ernest Giralt will explain the importance of the discovery of "green fluorescent protein".

• 9 December 2008
  "La Marató de TV3" finances 26 research projects on cardiovascular diseases

  IRB Barcelona will study key proteins related to the abnormal growth of the heart and arteriosclerosis.

• 19 November 2008
  Researchers at IRB Barcelona produce new data on key genes in diabetes

  They discover the relation between genes that affect the capacity of a cell to generate energy.

• 4 November 2008
  New genetic control "machinery"

  Researchers discover that the binding of three proteins is required to activate the programme of genes that are involved in the development of the nervous system of the fruit fly.

• 4 November 2008
  Science Week'08: Biological bytes

  IRB Barcelona and BSC open up the Experimental Bioinformatics Laboratory to explain the research into the life sciences performed by the supercomputer MareNostrum.

• 24 October 2008
  Experiments for all

  Researchers at IRB Barcelona collaborate with the Barcelona Science Park and the Caixa Catalunya in the workshop called "“Do research!", which is aimed at the general public.

• 14 October 2008
  Design of a compound that stabilizes the main natural suppressor of tumours

  The study performed by IRB Barcelona and ICIQ on the p53 protein opens up a new strategy for the development of antitumor drugs.

• 6 October 2008
  Shape does matter

  The development of organisms, the first step towards understanding human disease.