Someone once said, "Somewhere there is something incredible waiting to be discovered". I'm sure everyone would think of different discoveries. For me it would be to make leukaemia a curable disease in every single case. 

In 1988, when we established our Foundation, the possibilities of surviving this disease were slim. At that time, after years of scientific research, a bone marrow transplant was considered the best treatment for many cases of leukaemia and other blood diseases. 

After three decades of work we face a new challenge. We have to improve patients' quality of life, but above all we must find a definitive cure for leukaemia.

So, in 2010 the Josep Carreras Foundation, together with the Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia), launched an historic and unprecedented project: the first European research centre devoted exclusively to leukaemia and other malignant blood diseases, and one of the few that exist in the world.

The Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute is a centre without precedent which, through the work and rigour of researchers from around the world, employs the most innovative technologies to gain the upper hand against this disease. That leukaemia will one day be a totally curable disease is now something that lies in all our hands.

Josep Carreras