Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, BSC-CNS

BSC-CNS is the National Supercomputing Center in Spain. BSC-CNS specializes in High Performance Computing (HPC) and its mission is twofold: to provide supercomputing infrastructure and services to European scientists, and to generate knowledge and technology to transfer to companies and society. BSC-CNS is a first-level host member of the European research infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) and manages the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES). BSC-CNS is a consortium formed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain, the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia - BarcelonaTech.

Pompeu Fabra University, UPF

UPF was founded in 1990 with the aim of creating a public university focused on academic excellence and contributing to the country’s development. To achieve this goal, over the years, UPF has carried out all of its activities in accordance with strict quality criteria and has created a model of an urban university that is intimately linked to the city of Barcelona. As a university, we have been selective in the areas of knowledge that we have focused on in order to specialize primarily in research and training related to the various dimensions of the human being, including biology, communication and social phenomena. Our relatively small size, which we have maintained despite some growth, has emerged as one of our defining traits, and an eminently positive one at that, as it has allowed us to preserve the ideal size for the formation of a cohesive academic community, in which academic and administrative units have a sense of belonging to the same institution and of sharing the same values.

The Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) is a joint research programme of the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, IMIM and the Pompeu Fabra University. GRIB brings together a multidisciplinary team of more than seventy scientists, as well as technical and management staff. We are located at Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) where an exceptional cluster of research programmes and groups are working on Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics. The GRIB mission is to develop and apply computational methods and information technologies for a better understanding and prediction of biological phenomena, giving especial emphasis to those related to the human diseases, their prevention, diagnosis and pharmacological treatment.

Center for Genomic Regulation, CRG

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) is an international biomedical research institute of excellence, based in Barcelona. The mission of the CRG is to discover and advance knowledge for the benefit of society, public health and economic prosperity. Its interdisciplinary scientific team (over 400 scientists) is focused on understanding the complexity of life from the genome to the cell to a whole organism and its interaction with the environment. The CRG is part of The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), it is a CERCA centre from the Government of Catalonia and it currently integrated the National Center of Genomic Analysis, CNAG-CRG.

The Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute, IGTP

Public research centre in the Autonomous region of Catalonia in Northern Spain dedicated to increasing scientific knowledge and transferring it to improve the care and lives of patients.

The institute is attached to one of the large teaching hospitals in the Barcelona area; the Germans Trias University Hospital (HUGTP), and is located on the biomedical campus that surrounds it, Campus Can Ruti. It is a CERCA centre; a member of the biocluster supported and supervised by the Autonomous Catalonian Government. It is also accredited as a Centre of Excellence by the Instituto Carlos III (Spanish Government) and in this capacity acts as an umbrella organization for scientific research on the campus, where it works closely with the other centres located there.

Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute Foundation, IMIM

Private foundation of the public sector of the Generalitat de Catalunya, created in 1992, responsible for managing research projects at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), a Health Research Institute accredited by Carlos III Health Institute, up to 82%, made up of research groups lead by professionals from the MAR Health Park , most of whom are associates of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), as well as other seconded staff members from the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University (DCEXS-UPF).

The main roles of the Foundation include managing and monitoring research projects and grant requests, promoting quality research, ensuring the observance of ethical principles of professional practice, disseminating the results of research activities, and encouraging specialized teaching and continuous training by and for professionals in the field of Health Sciences. Likewise, its functions are oriented to the transfer of knowledge to the market, innovation and translational research.

The Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) is a joint research programme of the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, IMIM and the Pompeu Fabra University. GRIB brings together a multidisciplinary team of more than seventy scientists, as well as technical and management staff. We are located at Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) where an exceptional cluster of research programmes and groups are working on Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics. The GRIB mission is to develop and apply computational methods and information technologies for a better understanding and prediction of biological phenomena, giving especial emphasis to those related to the human diseases, their prevention, diagnosis and pharmacological treatment.

Institute for Research in Biomedicine, IRB Barcelona

Biomedical research centre that works to achieve a society free of diseases. The mission is to carry out multidisciplinary research of excellence to offer pioneering solutions to unresolved medical needs in cancer and other diseases linked to ageing.

Research results reach patients through technology transfer, which is accomplished by establishing collaborations with the pharmaceutical industry and the main hospitals.

The insitutite is also committed to knowledge. To this end, they offer the best training in biomedical sciences to young researchers, students and visitors, and maintain an open dialogue with citizens through a range of scientific communication and outreach activities.

IRB Barcelona was founded in 2005 by the “Generalitat de Catalunya” and the University of Barcelona (UB) and is located in the Barcelona Science Park (PCB). We are a CERCA centre that forms part of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).

The Barcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal

The Barcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, is the fruit of an innovative alliance between the ”la Caixa” Foundation and academic and government institutions to contribute to the efforts undertaken by the international community to address the challenges in global health. ISGlobal is a consolidated hub of excellence in research that has grown out of work first started in the world of health care by the Hospital Clínic and the Parc de Salut MAR and in the academic sphere by the University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University. Its working model is based on the generation of scientific knowledge through Research Programmes and Groups, and its translation through the areas of Training and Analysis and Global Development. ISGlobal has been named a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence and is a member of the CERCA system of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, VHIO

Established in 2007 and located in Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron Hospital Campus, the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) is a cancer center with a comprehensive view and international reputation, which embraces a translational, multidisciplinary and collaborative research model. Its privileged environment allows VHIO research groups a direct access to patients and unique research infrastructures, facilitating the translation of scientific outcomes into more powerful, targeted treatments and better patient care practice. The institute has experienced a shapely expansion in the last years, being this reflected in a qualitative and quantitative improvement of the infrastructures and an active recruitment of new talented researchers, making up a community of over 400 professionals.

Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, VHIR

VHIR is a public sector institution that promotes and develops biosanitary research, innovation and teaching at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, the largest high-tech tertiary hospital among those managed by the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS), located in Barcelona.

Since its creation in 1994, VHIR has worked to identify and apply new solutions to society's health problems and help spread them around the world. Throughout these more than 25 years, we have achieved leadership in hospital biomedical research in our country; today we are recognized as an excellent, competitive and leading European research institute in clinical and translational research linked to a university hospital.

VHIR is leader in clinical research and the pharmaceutical industry bets on our hospital when it comes to conducting its first clinical trials, thus making it a world benchmark.