Registration starts for the 2015-2016 ‘Recerca en Societat’ program at the Barcelona Science Parc Blog Post

This upcoming 8 October, the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) opens the enrollment period to participate in the experimental workshops ‘Fes recerca!’ (Do Research!) and ‘Descobreix la recerca!’ (Discover Research!), which gives the start to the 15th edition of ‘Recerca in Societat’ (Research in Society). This proposal of PCB to bring science to the public and encourage vocations among young people includes over 80 activities, involving annually about 5,000 people, including the ‘Fira Recerca en directe’ (Live Research Fair), which will take place during the month April at CosmoCaixa Barcelona.

 

A citizen’s experiment to measure aerosol pollution in Barcelona Blog Post

BCN Respira (BCN Breathes) is a new project –proposed and organized by ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences ICFO, in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and BCNLab of the Barcelona City Council–  to promote the understanding of the properties and behaviour of aerosols in the atmosphere and their effects on the environment, involving Barcelona’s citizens in a scientific experiment using their smartphones and light. This initiative will be running from September 15 to October 15 and is part of the iSPEX project, which coordinates the implementation of the experiment in ten major European cities in parallel. The Barcelona Knowledge Campus –where the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) is located– is one of the strategic areas chosen as observation points in Barcelona.

 

Projects submitted by IBEC and FBG have been selected in the first call of CaixaImpulse Blog Post

A smart dressing for wound care and a library of compounds to fight multi-resistant bacterial infection, developed by the Institute of Bioengineering Institute of Catalonia (IBEC), and two UB projects submitted by means of the Boch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG) –one about developing compounds for inflammatory and cardiovascular disorders and the other about therapies to cure diseases of the liver, lung, intestine and pancreas– are four of the 15 selected projects in the first call of the CaixaImpulse program. The initiative, co-organised by the Obra Social la Caixa and Caixa Capital Risc, aims at fostering the transformation of scientific knowledge in companies that create value for society and it allocates 1.3 million euros to the creation of biotech companies. 
 

Protein NBS1 is crucial for macrophage functional activity Blog Post

Protein NBS1, which plays a key role in DNA damage repair, is required for macrophage functional activity. This is one of the conclusions of a scientific paper published in the journal Blood—considered one of the best scientific publications in the field of haematology— and signed by a team of experts from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona (UB), Consolidated Research Group Macrophage Biology –located at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB)– and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). The protein also has implications for understanding the immune defects observed in patients with Nijmegen breakage syndrome and other related disorders.

 

SM Genomics will make available to the amateur athlete a genetic test which assesses susceptibility to injury Blog Post

SM Genomics, a spin-off of the University of Barcelona (UB) based at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB), has just opened a financing round of 450,000 € to bring to the amateur sport Spanish market their Genetic Injury Report (GIR), a test that assesses the predisposition of an athlete to sustain non-contact muscle, ligament and tendon injuries, and to estimate severity and recovery time.

 

PCB will host the workshop ‘Financing of KETs in health’ Blog Post

On Tuesday 26 May, the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) -based at the al Parc Científic de Barcelona, will host the workshop KETs funding in healthcare, organized by the Spanish Nanomedicine Platform (NanoMed) and the Spanish Federation of Healthcare Technology Companies (Fenin), in collaboration with ACC1O, the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) and the Spanish Platform for Photonics (Fotónica21).

Application process of d·HEALTH Barcelona 2016 is already open Blog Post

Design Health Barcelona (d·HEALTH Barcelona) is a unique 9-month groundbreaking training program to boost innovation, in which real hospital needs become the foundation for new technology to improve the quality of patient care. Inspired in the prestigious Stanford Biodesign FellowshipKaos Pilot and Exponential Medicine (Singularity University), d·HEALTH Barcelona is the flagship program of Moebio, Biocat’s new commitment to developing entrepreneurial talent in the health and life sciences sector. Application process of d·HEALTH Barcelona 2016 is already open. The Parc Científic de Barcelona will host an informative sessions to present the 3rd edition of the program.

 

UB Business Forum of the faculties Physics and the Faculty of Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics and Biology Blog Post

The Business Forum, organized by the Faculty of Physics and the Faculty of Chemistry on on May, with the participation of three more faculties, Geology, Mathematics and Biology, is a very good opportunity for students to get in contact with companies whose activity is related to their studies. As part of the Bussiness Fair there is a sector aimed for spin- offs created in the UB faculties, with the intention of introducing initiatives to convert research results into business and reinvest the research into productive sector, also aims to promote entrepreneurship in the students. The event will take place on  6th of May 2015, from 10:00h to 16:00, at UB Faculty of Physics and the Faculty of Chemistry.