Eugin presents pioneering advances in fertility and human reproduction at ESHRE 2020 Blog Post

An analysis of the environment in which the embryos that become implanted in the uterus develop reveals a lower number of senescent (aged) cells than those that are not successful. This is the result of a study presented yesterday at ESHRE 2020, which has been led by researchers from Eugin’s Basic Research Laboratory, headquartered in the Barcelona Science Park. The group also submited at the congress another work –carried out with the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the collaboration of the National Center for Genomic Analysis (CNAG)– which reveals that the quality of the eggs can lie in the networks that create their genes.

 

Vesismin introduces the Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation in leading hospitals Blog Post

The company Vesismin Health –present in the Barcelona Science Park and specialized in the development and commercialization of products for the control of infections in hospital environments– has introduced the advanced UVGI technology (Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation), in different hospitals in Spain. Its professional system for medical use, UV-360, produces germicidal ultraviolet radiation for comprehensive disinfection of rooms and is equipped with motion sensors that automatically interrupt operation when they detect a presence.

 

Ona Therapeutics raises €30M in Series A financing Blog Post

Ona Therapeutics –a spin-off from IRB Barcelona and ICREA, based in the Barcelona Science Park– announces today the closing of a €30 million Series A financing, the largest private funding round closed for a start-up in Spain. The financing will allow Ona Therapeutics to complete the pre-clinical development in a variety of tumor types and to move its lead candidate into first clinical studies in patients with metastatic cancer in 2023.

 

Gorka Etxebarria, new Chief Scientific Officer of Nostrum Biodiscovery Blog Post

Nostrum Biodiscovery (NBD) has appointed Dr. Gorka Etxebarria as new Chief Scientific Officer. Dr Etxebarria has a solid career linked to drug discovery projects in the pharmaceutical industry. His incorporation comes after the signing of Ezequiel Mas as new company CEO, to pilot a new stage of growth as a global provider of leading molecular simulation technologies applied to drug discovery and design.

 

Oxolife raises €5 million in a funding round and joins the Barcelona Science Park Blog Post

The biotech Oxolife –focused on the development of a new treatment to improve the female fertility rate– has moved its headquarters to the Barcelona Science Park. The company, which has just raised a €5 million funding round, will start a phase II clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of OXO-001, a drug that specifically acts on embryo implantation to increase pregnancy success rate in assisted reproductive technology processes.

 

The European Union has granted the coordination of three European projects to IBEC Blog Post

The European Union has granted the coordination of three European projects to the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) to continue combining medicine, science and technology with the aim of improving people’s health. Among the milestones achieved in recent years by the experts of the Institute, based at the Barcelona Science Park, we can find the development of bioimplants enriched with stem cells or the generation of vascularized mini-kidneys that have helped identify a drug in clinical phase that blocks the effects of SARS-Co-V2.

 

Scientists at CNAG-CRG and CRG develop a new tool to film genome dynamics Blog Post

Scientists from the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) –based in the Barcelona Science Park and integrated into the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)– have developed TADdyn, a tool that can generate movies of how genomes change over time. The finding, published in Nature Communications, will help researchers worldwide learn much more about the direct relationship between structure and function in the genome.