Scientific and Technological Centers UB: 30 years of technology serving research and innovation Blog Post

The Scientific and Technological Centers of the University of Barcelona (CCiTUB) reached their first thirty years of activity over which they have become widely known in both the national and international fields of research, innovation, and transfer. At the moment, the team in CCiTUB is formed by a hundred and sixty experts and administration staff, and eighty of tem are doctors, distributed in thirty-eight units, six of which are located in the Barcelona Science Park (PCB), among which there is the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory (LRB), listed in the Map of Unique Scientific and Technical Infraestructures (ICTS). 

 

GalChimia opens an R&D centre in the Barcelona Science Park Blog Post

Galician company GalChimia –a specialist in organic chemistry products and services for the pharmaceutical industry– has today opened its R&D centre in the Barcelona Science Park to step up its growth and internationalisation strategy. With this first subsidiary the Galicia-based company expects to increase its turnover by 25% over the next two years and step up its growth and internationalisation plan.

 

The Fem Talent 2018 Awards recognize Judit Anido and ProteoDesign Blog Post

Two companies based in the Barcelona Science Park have been recognized in this year’s edition of the Fem Talent awards. Dr Judit Anido, co-founder and CEO of Mosaic Biomedicals, has received the “Emerging Talent” award, and the company ProteoDesign –created by Silvia Frutos, Miquel Vila-Perelló, Silvia Frutos, Marc Montserrat and Tom W. Muir– has been a finalist in the ‘Organisation with Fem Talent Values’ category.

 

EIT Health Wild Card: €4 million in search of innovative health ideas Blog Post

Under the new Wild Card programme, EIT Health consortium –the largest European body for innovation in healthy living and active ageing– has announced €4 million in funding for disruptive initiatives that help transform European healthcare and mitigate the social and economic impact of the progressive ageing of the population. The Universitat de Barcelona (UB), a core partner and promoter of EIT Health Spain, is one of the 14 European institutions that will offer advisory and incubation services to the two winning teams to turn their ideas into a business plan through of the Barcelona Entrepreneurship Institute (BIE), the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG) and the Barcelona Science Park (PCB). On Monday, January 29, an informative session will take place at the PCB.

 

Embryotools successfully concludes the first trials on an innovative assisted reproduction technique Blog Post

Embryotools —headquartered at Barcelona Science Park (PCB)— has successfully concluded tests on animal models to validate an innovative assisted reproduction technique known as Maternal Spindle Transfer (MST).  This new technique is a mitochondrial replacement therapy which groups of leading scientists from around the world are studying for the prevention of mitochondrial diseases, which are transmitted maternally and currently have no treatment. Embryotools has been working on this project for over three years in partnership with the PCB-PRBB Animal Facility Alliance and the company Reprogenetics UK, located at Oxford University.

 

A pioneer project to promote organ donation in the European Union and neighbouring countries Blog Post

Raising awareness among society and promoting the training around highly specialized experts in the 28 member countries of the European Union and its neighbouring countries in the community area, aiming to improve the rate of organ donations are the main reference points for EUDONORGAN. This European project is led by the University of Barcelona (UB), together with Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG) and the DTI Donation & Transplantation Institute, located at the Barcelona Science Park.

 

Seminar on CDTI Instruments to fund R&D&i projects and startups Blog Post

On July 25 the Barcelona Science Park – in collaboration with the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), Biocat and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG)- organizes a seminar to introduce the different instruments that the CDTI has to fund R&D&i projects and to present the initiatives of its programs for this 2017 in the healthcare sector.