Facts and Figures

Quick Facts

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) is an international biomedical research institute of excellence, based in Barcelona, Spain, whose mission is to discover and advance knowledge for the benefit of society, public health and economic prosperity.

The breadth of topics, approaches and technologies at the CRG permits a broad range of fundamental issues in life sciences and biomedicine to be addressed. Research at the CRG falls into four main areas: genome biology; quantitative cell biology; computational biology and health genomics; and systems and sythetic biology. The National Centre for Genomic Analysis (CNAG-CRG) that carries out projects in DNA sequencing and analysis, was part of the CRG from 1st July 2015 to 30th June 2023.

With over 400 scientists from 45 countries at the end of 2022, the CRG excellence is based on an interdisciplinary, motivated and creative scientific team that is supported by high-end and innovative technologies.

The centre's other main strategic goals are: to translate basic scientific findings into benefits for health and economic value for society; to provide advanced and excellent training to our scientists; and to communicate and establish a bilateral dialogue with society.

The CRG in a nutshell (*)

(*) Information at the end of 2022. It includes CNAG-CRG facts and figures.