Surely few laboratories can match the views from Barcelona Biomedical Research Park on the city’s busy beachfront. From the sun-dappled balconies of the modernist €120 million ($138 million) institute, scientists can watch boats sail out from the Olympic Port, swimmers take a dip in the Mediterranean and tourists zip along the seafront promenade on motorized scooters. “It’s a wonder we get any work done at all,” joked Angel Lozanos, vice president of research at Pompeu Fabra University, on the view from the institute, which was established by the university alongside Barcelona City Council and the Catalan government in 2006.

May 5, 2016 ・ From Times Higher Education