Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) Areas of research: Cell and Developmental Biology, Structural and Computational Biology, Molecular Medicine, Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Oncology. Location: Barcelona. Website: https://www.irbbarcelona.org/en; Contact: hr@irbbarcelona.org
IRB Barcelona is a world-class research centre devoted to understanding fundamental questions about human health and disease. More than 400 scientists and support staff from 35 countries work at IRB Barcelona with the common goal of conducting multidisciplinary research projects that address important biomedical problems affecting our society, including cancer and metastasis, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases. IRB Barcelona was created in 2005 by the Government of Catalonia and the University of Barcelona, and is housed within the Barcelona Science Park. IRB Barcelona occupies a prominent place in a rich landscape of research centres of excellence, universities, science parks, hospitals, scientific infrastructures, and pharmaceutical companies, all with a focus on the life sciences. It is an accredited Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence, and holds the HR Excellence in Research seal. IRB Barcelona’s missions are: • to conduct internationally recognised multidisciplinary research at the interface between structural biology, chemistry, and biology. • to train and inspire biomedical scientists at all stages of their research careers • to drive innovation through active technology transfer to the benefit of society • to actively engage in an open dialogue with the public through a series of science and society and education activities IRB Barcelona’s current 25 groups are organised into 5 Research Programmes: Cell and Developmental Biology, Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Molecular Medicine, Structural and Computational Biology, and Oncology. Group Leaders are hired internationally and are periodically evaluated by a panel of specialist experts to ensure the highest standards of competitiveness. They publish more than 200 original research articles in international peer-reviewed journals per year. Well-equipped laboratories are complemented by a network of seven state-of-the-art scientific core facilities: Advanced Digital Microscopy, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Functional Genomics, Histopathology Facility, Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Mouse
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