The 29th edition of the DTI’s “Curso Superior Internacional en Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos” is inaugurated at PCB Blog Post

Today marked the inauguration of the 29th edition of the Curso Superior Internacional en Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB). The programme, organised by the Donation & Transplantation Institute (DTI), will be executed until 22 February in Barcelona and Sant Hilari Sacalm, with the participation of forty-nine students from Spain and eleven different Latin American countries.

 

Social awareness event for Eudonorgan project at the European Parliament Blog Post

More than 120 professionals from the field of health and other experts from thirty-three countries worldwide have taken part in the social awareness event of the EUDONORGAN project, an initiative directly launched by the European Parliament and led by the University of Barcelona, together with the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation and the DTI Foundation – Donation & Transplantation Institute, both entities located at the Barcelona Science Park. Under the motto “Why organ donation matters to us all?”, on February 18 this forum gathered in the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels (Belgium) a wide representation of experts of the field of health, patients, NGOs, support groups and other collectives. 

 

IBEC researchers generate mini-kidneys vascularized from stem cells Blog Post

Researchers from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) at the Barcelona science Park, have created, for the first time, 3D organoid cultures from pluripotent stem cells, which resemble human embryonic kidney tissue during the second trimester of pregnancy. Using biomaterials that mimic the embryonic microenvironment, scientifics have also achieved mini-kidneys with relevant features for immediate use in renal disease modeling.

Institutional visit to the two ICTS of the CCiTUB Blog Post

Yesterday, February 14, José Ignacio Doncel Morales, deputy general director of Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and Iolanda Font de Rubinat i Garcia, deputy general director of Research, of the Government of Catalonia visited the two (ICTS) of the University of Barcelona located in the Scientific and Technological Centers (CCiTUB).

 

GAEM Foundation: prize-winner in the sixth ‘Solidarity Territories’ awards ceremony Blog Post

The GAEM Foundation was recognised in the sixth edition of BBVA’s and the Fundació Antigues Caixes Catalanes (FACC) ‘Solidarity Territories‘ awards ceremony, winning a €6,000 donation for its “QUEREMOS curarnos. Esclerosis Múltiple” [WE WANT to get cured. Multiple Sclerosis] initiative. This project aims to accelerate the transfer of therapeutic solutions through its Project Accelerator programme, speeding up treatment accessibility to multiple sclerosis patients and helping to improve patient quality of life and to cure the disease.

 

A study on autism done at IRB Barcelona in the running for the “Vanguardia de la Ciencia” Award Blog Post

For the fifth consecutive year, the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) based in PCB has been nominated for the  “Vanguardia de la Ciencia” Award, thanks to research into autism, done in collaboration with the Centre for Molecular Biology “Severo Ochoa” (CBMSO), joint center between the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations (CSIC) and the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). The work in question established that the CPEB4 protein, which coordinates the expression of hundreds of genes necessary for neuronal activity, is altered in the brains of patients with this neurological disorder.