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Science today for the medicine of tomorrow

IRB Barcelona's "Barcelona Biomed Perspectives" series

Rare diseases, cancer and metastasis, Alzheimer's and diabetes are diseases with an enormous impact on patients, their families and caregivers, as well as on the healthcare system and society as a whole. Over recent decades, biomedical research conducted across the globe has led to significant progress in finding treatments for many of these pathologies, converting some into chronic rather than lethal conditions. For others, existing therapies have been improved and new treatments have been discovered.

Despite much progress, however, these diseases continue to present significant challenges for biomedical scientists, and research efforts are intense. How far have we come, and how much progress have we made in our understanding of each of these diseases?

New tools and technologies available to researchers, genomic information and its mathematical exploitation, big data, etc, are revolutionizing the way we study these diseases and open the door to new and hopeful approaches.

At IRB Barcelona, researchers who are among the top in their field contribute to furthering our knowledge in order to come up with tomorrow's cures. The science they do in basic research labs is the first step on the path to creating the medicines of the future.

“Science today for the medicine of the future” is a conference series called BARCELONA BIOMED PERSPECTIVES organized by IRB Barcelona to provide insight into current research developments and the challenges facing our scientists today in order to discover the medicine of tomorrow.

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Understanding diabetes

By Joan J. Guinovart, director and researcher IRB Barcelona

Neurological diseases

An ambulance for the brain

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