IRB Barcelona News - Institutional

• 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

• 28 May 2008
  IRB Barcelona awarded prize for the best scientific research

  The "Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques" (Academy of Medical Sciences) confers the Josep Trueta prize to research on Lafora disease performed by Joan J. Guinovart’s lab

• 20 May 2008
  Research into metastasis will bring about treatments to fight cancer

  Twenty-three of the most renowned scientists working in the field of metastasis come together in Barcelona, invited by IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation. Among these, Tyler Jacks, Joan Massagué, Josep Baselga and the Nobel Prize winners Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus.

• 15 April 2008
  Màrius Rubiralta, named Spain's new State Secretary for Universities

  The IRB Barcelona principal investigator has been appointed to the post by the new Minister of Science and Innovation, Cristina Garmendia.

• 11 April 2008
  Interaction networks: the new path to drug discovery

  Experts in systems biology, molecular pharmacology and bioengineering convene in Barcelona, invited by IRB Barcelona and the BBVA Foundation.