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 Innovation, Universities and Enterprise Department (DIUE) and the Health Department (DS), as well as from the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN).
It is a unique centre in Spain, based in a non-bureaucratic organization research model, whose objective is to promote basic research in biomedicine and, particularly, in the genomics and proteomics areas. 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 Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), 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.
The PRBB, an urban scientific park
The Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) is an initiative of the Catalan Government, the Pompeu Fabra University and the Barcelona City Council.
The PRBB is an innovative project that hopes to reinforce the role of Barcelona and Catalonia in the biomedicine scene.The main purposes of PRBB are:
- to become a national and international relevant node in the field of biomedicine, characterized by its excellence in scientific research and core facilities, including a modern animal facility;
- to concentrate resources in emergent knowledge areas of biology and medicine; and
- to offer an innovative high-level training in Health and Life Sciences.
Significant aspects:
-There are specially designed premises for scientific research and technological development.
-The new building will accommodate more than a thousand people, amongst which there will be scientists, professors, students, technical support and general services personnel.
The building was officially inaugurated in May 2006 and the different institutions moved in along the year.
