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“la Caixa” awards IRB Barcelona with international predoctoral fellowships to foster biomedical research in Spain

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IRB Barcelona PhD student, David Suñol, receives his diploma from Carmen Vela. Source: Obra Social "la Caixa".
 16.07.2013

“la Caixa” awards IRB Barcelona with international predoctoral fellowships to foster biomedical research in Spain

Today in the CaixaForum, "la Caixa" Foundation has presented the 40 grants corresponding to the fifth edition of its International PhD Programme in Biomedicine (from 2013 onwards to be known as Doctorado "laCaixa" - Severo Ochoa). This initiative is aimed at attracting young talented scientists worldwide to recruit them to four of the biomedical research centres of reference in Spain: the Spanish National Center for Biotechnolgy (CNB-CSIC), the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre Carlos III (CNIO), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), based in the Parc Científic de Barcelona.


The awards of the 5th edition of the “la Caixa” grants have been presented by the Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation, Carmen Vela, the director of “la Caixa”, Juan Maria Nin, the director of the “la Caixa” Foundation, Jaime Lanaspa, and the adjunct of the “la Caixa” Foundation, Elisa Duran.

The director of IRB Barcelona, Joan Guinovart, thanked “la Caixa” for “a programme necessary to bring onboard and attract young talent from all over the world to biomedical research centres in the country.” Clara Morral, from Barcelona, gave a thank you speech on behalf of the fellows who recently joined IRB Barcelona and who will finish their PhD training in 2017. Morral has started a project in cancer stem cells with the Colorectal Cancer Lab, headed by the ICREA researcher Eduard Batlle.

Over five years, 200 grants will be offered by “la Caixa” International PhD Fellowship Programme, with an investment of approximately 27 million euros. The IRB Barcelona has signed up 50 students (24 female and 26 male) —of which 36 are non-Spanish nationals and the remaining 14 Spanish— from 23 countries.