BIST (Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology) is a scientific cooperation institution that brings together seven frontier research centres in a public-private partnership in the form of a foundation. The centres that make up BIST are: the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), the Catalan Institute for Chemical Research (ICIQ), the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), the Institute of High Energy Physics (IFAE), and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Barcelona (IRB Barcelona).
Its purpose is to unify and multiply the efforts of excellence and impact of the centres that constitute it, improving their contribution to the knowledge system and the society that promotes them. It does this by adding its critical mass and articulating it as a community, promoting multidisciplinary scientific cooperation and strengthening its institutional capacity.
The scientific community of BIST is made up of these seven centres and their 2,600 researchers, students and technical staff. It is a young and international community: about half of its members are PhD students or postdoctoral researchers, and 42% of the community is of international origin. The BIST scientific community is committed to expanding the frontiers of knowledge in areas such as genomics, bioengineering, biomedicine, chemistry, nanotechnology, photonics and high-energy physics.
