11/04/2012 The Catalan Society of Biology, awarded with the 'Creu de Sant Jordi' 11/04/2012 The government of Catalonia has awarded with 'La Creu de Sant Jordi' to the Catalan Society of Biology (SCB) "for a recognized contribution to the research, the spreading and the international projection of the sciences of life from the territories of Catalan language". SCB is one of fifteen entities that, together with twenty-five personalities, receives this year this recognition. The ceremony of the awards took place the 20th of April, in the Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona.Dr. Jordi Barquinero, head of the cell and gene therapy group at Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) is the second vice-president of SCB, and in the board as members are doctors Eva Colàs, Marina Rigau and Marta Llauradó, members of the research unit in biomedicine and translational and pediatrics oncology at VHIR. The head of this unit, Dr. Jaume Reventós, was the president of SCB from 2003 to 2009.The Catalan Society of Biology receives the award on the year of its centenary. Founded in 1912 with the name of Society of Biology of Barcelona, it was the first subsidiary of the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC), directed by Dr. August Pi i Sunyer. At the beginning it was focused especially on the medicine and, on a few years, achieved an important role as scientific institution. Some of the most out-standing Spanish scientists, as Severo Ochoa or Gregorio Marañón, and foreign scientists as J. J. McLeod, Otto Meyerhof or Jean Perrin were on SCB.Ended the Spanish Civil war, most of the SCB members went towards the exile and those who stayed in Catalonia were forced to leave the charges that were occupying. Since then until 1962, year in what returned the activity under the current name of Catalan Society of Biology, only in 1954 there was a clandestine conference by Dr. Josep Trueta at Josep Puig i Cadafalch's house.Nowadays, SCB is affiliated to the Section of IEC's Biological Sciences and is composed by more than 1.500 partners, seven territorial sections by the territories of Catalan language and culture, five transverse sections and fifteen thematic sections. In the last years, personalities as Lynn Margulis, Mariano Barbacid, Eudald Carbonell, John Ingraham, Stanley Miller, Federico Mayor Zaragoza or Valentí Fuster were related to SCB. The government of Catalonia has awarded with 'La Creu de Sant Jordi' to the Catalan Society of Biology (SCB) "for a recognized contribution to the research, the spreading and the international projection of the sciences of life from the territories of Catalan language". SCB is one of fifteen entities that, together with twenty-five personalities, receives this year this recognition. The ceremony of the awards took place the 20th of April, in the Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona.Dr. Jordi Barquinero, head of the cell and gene therapy group at Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) is the second vice-president of SCB, and in the board as members are doctors Eva Colàs, Marina Rigau and Marta Llauradó, members of the research unit in biomedicine and translational and pediatrics oncology at VHIR. The head of this unit, Dr. Jaume Reventós, was the president of SCB from 2003 to 2009.The Catalan Society of Biology receives the award on the year of its centenary. Founded in 1912 with the name of Society of Biology of Barcelona, it was the first subsidiary of the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC), directed by Dr. August Pi i Sunyer. At the beginning it was focused especially on the medicine and, on a few years, achieved an important role as scientific institution. Some of the most out-standing Spanish scientists, as Severo Ochoa or Gregorio Marañón, and foreign scientists as J. J. McLeod, Otto Meyerhof or Jean Perrin were on SCB.Ended the Spanish Civil war, most of the SCB members went towards the exile and those who stayed in Catalonia were forced to leave the charges that were occupying. Since then until 1962, year in what returned the activity under the current name of Catalan Society of Biology, only in 1954 there was a clandestine conference by Dr. Josep Trueta at Josep Puig i Cadafalch's house.Nowadays, SCB is affiliated to the Section of IEC's Biological Sciences and is composed by more than 1.500 partners, seven territorial sections by the territories of Catalan language and culture, five transverse sections and fifteen thematic sections. In the last years, personalities as Lynn Margulis, Mariano Barbacid, Eudald Carbonell, John Ingraham, Stanley Miller, Federico Mayor Zaragoza or Valentí Fuster were related to SCB. Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Whatsapp
