The PCB’s scientific community joins the fight against SARS-CoV-2 Blog Post

In response to the health emergency caused by SARS-CoV-2, research centres and biotech companies in the Barcelona Science Park (Parc Científic de Barcelona, PCB) are leading scientific progress in the treatment, vaccination and diagnosis of the novel coronavirus. The PCB will ensure that public centres and businesses can continue with their research projects by providing the resources and services they need.

 

Identified a new repairing mechanism of the peripheral nervous system by applyting bioengineering techniques Blog Post

A research group at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) at the Barcelona Science Park has applied a new light-stimulated technique to modulate muscular activity and stimulate cell regeneration of the peripheral nervous system. Thanks to this research, published in Cells, the scientists have discovered that muscle activity can activate the neurons and accelerate their regeneration after an injury. 

 

Núria Montserrat wins Íñigo Álvarez de Toledo Award for Basic Research Blog Post

Núria Montserrat, ICREA research professor and principal investigator of the “Pluripotency for organ regeneration group” at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in the Barcelona Science Park, has unanimously won the XXXI Íñigo Álvarez de Toledo Award for Basic Research granted by the Fundación Renal Íñigo Álvarez de Toledo (FRIA). 

 

IBEC and EMBL brought together more than 150 worldwide experts to debate on the medicine of the future Blog Post

This week, the EMBL-IBEC Winter Conference –organised by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)– brought together more than 200 international experts in the field of bioengineering at La Pedrera building in Barcelona. At the opening of the event, which was led by the mayor Ada Colau, attention was drawn to Barcelona’s consolidation as an international centre of research and knowledge.

 

Launch of the ODISSeA Postgraduate Programme on Organ Donation to train experts in Southeast Asia Blog Post

About three hundred experts from Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand will be the first generation to complete the ODISSeA Postgraduate Programme in Organ Donation. This initiative is carried out as part of the project ODISSeA, led by the University of Barcelona and promote by DTI Foundation–Donation & Transplantation Institute, based in the Barcelona Science Park, to boost highly specialized training among professionals in this field to the countries of Southeast Asia.

 

IBEC signs an agreement with ICMS of TU Eindhoven to foster their collaboration Blog Post

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), based in the Barcelona Science Park, and the Institute of Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) at Eindhoven University of Technology, have signed the first agreement between the two institutes to foster their collaboration. This institutional alliance will allow to share resources, knowledge and provide mobility programs.

 

The University of Barcelona bestows an accolade on Esteve Blog Post

In an event held in the Great Hall of the Historic Building of the University of Barcelona, Esteve Pharmaceuticals received an accolade for its long history of collaboration in research, development and innovation. The pharmaceutical group –which has its Drug Discovery and Preclinical Development Center at the Barcelona Science Park– sees recognized his commitment to collaborative innovation to provide solutions to medical needs of high social impact.

 

Nostrum Biodiscovery wins the 2019 of Senén Vilaró Prize for best innovative company Blog Post

Nostrum Biodiscovery (NBD), located at the Barcelona Science Park, has won the “2019 Senén Vilaró Prize for best innovative company”, one of the four awards conferred by the Board of Trustees of the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG). The ceremony for the awards was held yesterday at the Aula Magna of the Historical Building of the UB.