IRB Barcelona Director Joan J. Guinovart visited the Escola Mare de Déu de Montserrat during the Setmana Cultural from 31 March to 5 April 2016. The collaboration is called Tandem School Projects. More info here: http://www.irbbarcelona.org/en/news/irb-barcelona-in-tandem-with-a-state-school-in-cornella-to-boost-academic-results-through 
Audio recording: Muriel Arimon; Audio editing: Luca Tancredi Barone

Joan J. Guinovart at the Tandem School

The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) is celebrating 15 years of existence. Created to make it easier for top research centres to attract talent to Catalonia, ICREA has become a reference in Europe and a seal of quality. In vivo asked Group Leaders Maria Macias, Roger Gomis, Xavier Salvatella, and Lluís Ribas de Pouplana what ICREA means to them and how it has helped them pursue their research. Listen to the podcast.

15 years of ICREA excellence

David Vilchez is the first IRB Barcelona alumnus to receive the “Alumni of Excellence Award”.
Upon receiving the award in September, Vilchez expressed his satisfaction and joked about remembering the good vibes of that day to warm him  “in the cold winters in Germany”. He says that he wants to take various things with him to Germany, among them IRB Barcelona’s “spirit of collaboration” and the attitude he learned here as a PhD student of not being afraid of what you cannot do. “Just go to a lab that can do it,” he says.
Read the full interview here: https://www.irbbarcelona.org/en/news/in-vivo-newsletter/think-big-and-do-not-surrender-says-the-winner-of-the-2016-alumni-of-excellence-award-david
Interview: Luca Tancredi Barone

“Think big and don't give up”

Ana Janic (Serbia, 1978) finished a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Physiology at the University of Belgrade in 2005, after which she moved to Barcelona for a summer internship in Cayetano González’s Cell Division Laboratory. This experience led her to undertake a PhD at IRB Barcelona. During her PhD, Ana developed a research project in the field of Drosophila tumour biology. Her thesis was graded “cum laude” with Honors by the University of Barcelona and was awarded  the “Premis Extraordinaris de Doctorat 2011” as the best doctoral thesis that year. She then moved to Andreas Strasser’s Lab at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia, to carry out postdoctoral research in molecular genetics of haematopoietic malignancies. Ana and her husband have been living in Australia since 2011, and they had a daughter, Emma, in 2014.

https://www.irbbarcelona.org/en/news/irb-barcelona-will-always-be-special-because-i-took-my-first-steps-as-a-scientist-here