The National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB) is a research centre that forms part of the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC), Spain’s most important public scientific institution. The CNB opened in 1992 to lead the development of modern biotechnology in Spain.

Our scientific goal is framed in the World Health Organization (WHO) One Health initiative, which we view as crucial at a time when global challenges transcend local and compartmentalized research, demanding for intensive collaborative efforts that exploit cutting-edge technologies. Our focus embraces four major scientific and societal challenges: infectious diseases, inflammation and cancer, sustainability of safe food production and bioremediation of environmentally relevant emissions.

These challenging goals are viable in a singular centre as the CNB, which houses a broad diversity of scientists (biologists, biochemists, physicists and computational scientists) and a unique array of state-of-the-art infrastructures that cover multiple cutting-edge quantitative technologies. This environment paves the way for successfully addressing biological problems from an integrative perspective.

The CNB is distinguished by its versatile interdisciplinary research that combines molecular biology methods with the latest technology in the fields of functional and structural biology. We are a team of more than 600 professionals committed to research excellence. Four keywords summarize our strategy to reach institutional and scientific goals: TRAINING, LEADERSHIP, COLLABORATION and TRANSFER.

2021-2022

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2019-2020

2011-2012

2017-2018

2009-2010