What's the CRG?
The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) is an innovative centre for basic research created in December 2000 by initiative of the former Department of Universities, Research and Information Society (DURSI) of the Catalan Government. The CRG is legally constituted as a non-profit foundation and has the participation from the Catalan Government through the Economy and Knowledge Department (DECO) and the Health Department (DS), as well as from the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and the Spanish Ministry of Economy & Competitiveness (MEC).
It is an international biomedical research institute of excellence whose mission is to discover and advance knowledge for the benefit of society, public health and economic prosperity.
The CRG believes that the medicine of the future depends on the groundbreaking science of today. This requires an interdisciplinary scientific team focused on understanding the complexity of life from the genome to the cell to a whole organism and its interaction with the environment, offering an integrated view of genetic diseases.
The CRG is a unique centre in Spain, based in an innovative organization research model. Group leaders at the CRG are recruited internationally and receive support from the centre to set up and run their groups. An external Scientific Advisory Board, made up of 12 world leaders in the different areas, evaluates them. The result of evaluations conditions the future of the CRG scientists, no matter whether they have open-ended or time-limited contracts. This ensures the mobility and the renewal of the workforce.
The CRG within the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)
The CRG is part of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), a new building that holds different institutions related to the biomedical research as the Experimental and Health Sciences Department (CEXS) of the UPF, the Hospital del Mar Research Institute (IMIM), the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), the Regenerative Medicine Centre of Barcelona (CMRB), etc.
The building is located in the sea front of the Barceloneta beach, next to the Olympic Harbour and besides the Hospital del Mar, in a modern district of the city with high standing recreational and cultural equipments.
