Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica

General Information

The institute is a private non-profit foundation founded in 1989 by the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (HCB) and the University of Barcelona. Its main mission is to provide administrative support to the researchers at HCB in the management, development and justification of its scientific activity. It is also dedicated to attracting resources for research and, through the Aula Clínic and Eixample Clínic platform, to promote and disseminate continuous training in health sciences.

For the realization of this project, FCRB has a laboratory located in the Esther Koplowitz Center (CEK) located a few meters away from the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona that is part of The August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS). Founded in 1996, IDIBAPS is a biomedical research centre of excellence that addresses the most common illnesses of our environment. It is a public consortium comprising the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Clínic Barcelona, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona and the CSIC Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona. IDIBAPS is a CERCA Center. It represents over 1,000 research professionals organised into around one hundred research groups. Its combination of basic and clinical research allows for a more effective transfer of the scientific advances obtained in the laboratory towards patients. With more than 1,100 articles published each year, it is Spain’s principal biomedical research centre.