Salvador Aznar Benitah receives the VI National ‘Doctores Diz Pintado’ Cancer Research Prize Blog Post

ICREA researcher and group leader of the Stem Cells and Cancer Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, Salvador Aznar Benitah, has been awarded the VI National ‘Doctores Diz Pintado’ Cancer Research Prize. Last Saturday, he received the award during the academic session held by the University of Salamanca. The prize acknowledges Salvador Aznar Benitah’s contributions to transferring knowledge from basic to clinical research.

 

Carmen Plasencia receives a 2017 ‘femtalent’ award for her Professional Career Blog Post

Carme Plasencia, CEO and cofounder of biotech Aromics, based at the Barcelona Science Park, has won the femtalent award for her Professional Career. Greenaltech and Seed&Click, also located at PCB, received special mention in the categories of ‘Innovation and Organization” with We talent values,  respectively. The presentation of awards took place last Frisay at the Activa Barcelona Technology Park as part of the 2017 edition of the femtalent fòrum, which brought together over 200 attendees and 10 lecturers from the field of entrepreneurship, finances and social innovation.

 

Scientists reveal how to computationally design artificial proteins for novel applications Blog Post

An international team of scientists led by the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle has deciphered key rules that govern how proteins form pocket-like structures that are essential for many key protein functions. The discovery makes it possible for researchers to custom-design proteins that can mimic the actions of naturally occurring proteins as well as to design new proteins, unlike any found in nature, capable of performing entirely new functions. IRB Barcelona researcher, Enrique Marcos, is the first author of the study published today in Science.

 

€7m project awarded to IBEC to develop therapeutic approaches for cancer and other diseases Blog Post

Mechanocontrol, coordinated at IBEC by Pere Roca-Cusachs, is one of only 12 projects selected out of 210 proposals submitted in the Horizon 2020’s FET Proactive program,  which helps new research communities to be developed by encouraging researchers from different disciplines to work together. With its grant of €7m over five years, it is over three-fold larger than the prestigious European Research Council grants. In the international consortium that will develop Mechanocontrol also participates the company Mind the Byte located on the PCB.

 

Minoryx Therapeutics receives European Orphan Drug Designation for its lead candidate MIN-102 Blog Post

Minoryx Therapeutics – a drug development company specialized in the discovery and development of new drugs for orphan diseases, which has R& D laboratories at the Barcelona Science Park–  today announces that its lead compound MIN-102 has been granted Orphan Drug Designation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). This designation is granted to medicines that are aimed at a condition that is life-threatening or chronically debilitating and have a prevalence rate in the EU of no more than five in 10,000 and brings a number of benefits to Minoryx including ten years market exclusivity.

 

Upcoming Forum of the BioRegion, the summit of the Catalan healthcare and life sciences ecosystem Blog Post

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Biocat is holding a new edition of the Forum of the BioRegion of Catalonia on 25 November at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya in order to bring together the stakeholders in the Catalan healthcare and life sciences ecosystem and reflect on the challenges and opportunities available in this current environment of change and sectorial transformation. The latest session brought together more than 450 representatives from Catalan organizations and this year Biocat –with headquarters at the Barcelona Scientific Park – is opening the event up to international clusters.

 

IBEC and GENOMICA present NEDxA, first fruit of their collaboration Blog Post

Head of Technology Transfer Xavier Rubies, as well as representing IBEC as a research centre related to health, joined forces with representatives from Genomica to reveal NEDxA, a nano-electronic diagnostic array, at MEDICA, the world forum for medicine in Düsseldorf on 14th-17th November. The device –developed by the IBEC-Genomica Joint Unit located at IBEC’s headquarters at the Barcelona Science Park– carries out analysis to detect Human Papillomavirus (HPV) in a cheap, quick and convenient desktop device. 

 

Avizorex receives the EntrepreneurXXI Award in the Lifes Science category Blog Post

Today, the Caixaforum auditorium in Barcelona has hosted the 10th EmprendedorXXI Awards Ceremony, an initiative promoted by “la Caixa”, through Caixa Capital Risc, and co-awarded by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, through Enisa.The biotechnology company, Avizorex Pharma, an ophthalmology biotech company with offices at Barcelona Science Park (PCB), has received the award in the Life Sciences category.

 

IRB Barcelona launches a campaign entitled “Future” to increase public awareness of biomedical research Blog Post

Today the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has launched a fundraising campaign called “Futur” (#IRBfutur). The campaign, which will run for two months, seeks to raise public awareness of the role that biomedical researchplays in advancing medicine, and the need to train scientists to ensure they can make the discoveries that may one day save our lives. The initiative aims to raise 25,000 euros to fund the first year of a PhD student at IRB Barcelona. The campaign is part of “Giving Tuesday”, a day devoted to charitable donations, which this year falls on Tuesday 29 November.

 

IRB Barcelona scientist Eduard Batlle wins the 2016 Carmen and Severo Ochoa Prize Blog Post

Coordinator of the Oncology Programme at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and ICREA research professor Eduard Batlle has won the 2016 Carmen y Severo Ochoa Prize. Presented by the Fundación Carmen and Severo Ochoa since 1995, these awards recognise molecular biology research undertaken by scientists in Spain. The prize presentation ceremony will be held on Wednesday 16 November at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid.