Haritz Plazaola Sasieta

The Fundació de Recerca Clínic Barcelona-Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) (https://www.clinicbarcelona.org/en/idibaps)) is a public research centre dedicated to biomedical research, founded in 1989 to broaden the clinical research of the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona (HCB), and with a strong link to the University of Barcelona (UB). With >1,500 original articles and >2,500 publications annually, IDIBAPS is one of the leading biomedical research centres in Spain driving forward original multidisciplinary biomedical research on multiple diseases affecting our society, with the mission to translate “knowledge into cure”. In order accomplish this mission the researchers have novel and first-class infrastructures available together with six own core facilities offering a wide range of services under strict quality management controls performed at all levels. The institution has also a strong track record working in European projects (e.g. 90 projects obtained along H2020 and 44 in Horizon Europe) and has a dedicated European Projects Office (OPE) and the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Office (KTT).