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Prominent presence of PCB in the new map of Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS)

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 20.10.2014

Prominent presence of PCB in the new map of Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS)

The National Center for Genome Analysis (CNAG) has been included in the Map of Singular Scientific and Technological Infrastructures (ICTS), approved this October by the Council for Scientific, Technological and Innovation Policy under the chairmanship of the Minister of Economy and Competitiveness, Luis de Guindos. Other facility, located at the PCB, the Barcelona Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory (LRB) –affiliated to the Scientific and Technological Centers of the UB (CCiTUB) - renews the qualification as a singular scientific and technical infrastructure in the new map.


The CNAG has been included in the ICTS map together with the Omics Science Center (COS) as quality of omics technologies infrastructures in the field of Health Sciences and Biotechnology. The center was established in 2009 with support from the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Generalitat de Catalunya- as a platform integrated in the Barcelona Science Park Foundation- with the mission to carry out large-scale projects of DNA analysis and sequencing in collaboration with researchers from Catalonia, Spain and other parts of the world and to ensure international competitiveness of our country in the strategic area of genomics. The CNAG is equipped with 12 last-generation sequencers, which has enabled it to achieve a capacity of more than 800 sequencing GBases / day, which equates to the sequencing of eight human genomes a day. This places the CNAG as the second European center in sequencing capacity.

The Barcelona Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory (LRB) is part of the new ICTS map, also within the field of Health Sciences and Biotechnology. The infrastructure, which is accessible to both researchers from the UB Group and to researchers from other public or private institutions, has as its main objectives to experiment with very high field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study the structure and dynamics of complex molecules of biological interest and advise the business sector on the applications of NMR in different fields. The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Technological Unit of the CCiTUB, which integrates the LRB, supports research in various areas (chemistry, molecular biology, genetics, food technology, pharmacy, biotechnology, etc.) and since 2005, as with the rest of CCiTUB units, has been granted the ISO 9001-2008 certification.

On the other hand, the Peptide Synthesis Unit of the Combinatorial Chemistry Platform of the Barcelona Science Park and the Nanotechnology Platform and equipment from the Rapid Prototyping Unit of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) will be part of a new ICTS, Nanbiosis, a platform created by the Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) and the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery Jesús Usón (CCMIJU). Nanbiosis is the integrated infrastructure for the production and characterization of nanomaterials, biomaterials and biomedical systems of CIBER-BBN. This platform is aimed at medical applications and provides a comprehensive and easy access service, including the design, production of biomaterials and nanomaterials, characterization of these materials and tissues, and the development of medical devices and systems from a physical, chemical, functional, toxicological and biological perspective.