A watershed of new knowledge in biomedical sciences

The Inaugural Scientific Symposium of the Barcelona Science Park, held March 9, 2001, covered research topics that are prominently represented at the Biomedical Research Institute of the Park, including cell and developmental biology, molecular pathology, medicinal chemistry and structural biology. Featured speakers at the symposium were Fotis Kafatos (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany); Kurt Wuthrich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland); Mariann Bienz (Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Research, Cambridge, U.K.); Joan Massague (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, U.S.A.); Philip Cohen (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K.); Mariano Barbacid (Spanish National Cancer Center, Madrid, Spain); and Harold Varmus (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, U.S.A.).