Spain’s Ministry of Science and the State Research Agency (AEI) have announced that more than 254 researchers from around the world applied to the Atrae program, an initiative to attract established talent of recognized international prestige to Spain. Vincenzo Calvanese, a 43-year-old researcher originally from Naples, Italy, is one of the foreign researchers who decided to take the plunge in the 2024 call for applications. That year, his group opened a new laboratory at the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute (IJC) in Barcelona, ​​funded by the Atrae grant. “It was a very simple decision,” he says.