IRB Barcelona News - Institutional

• 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.

• 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.

• 6 October 2008
  Shape does matter

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

• 4 September 2008
  Navas appointed director of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III

  IRB Barcelona Executive Board president main's mission is to boost research in biomedicine and health sciences in Spain

• 12 June 2008
  Ernest Giralt inducted into the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona

  The coordinator of the Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Programme at IRB Barcelona is an international authority on the synthesis and design of biomolecules

• 2 June 2008
  Towards improved modeling of living organisms

  Leading scientists in the field from around the world come together to address the challenges in the sessions ‘Grand Challenges in Computational Biology’, opened by Josep Huguet