Creating the map of cells of the human body with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Blog Post

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, today announced new funding for 85 projects to support the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), a global effort to map every type of cell in the healthy human body as a resource for studies of health and disease. The grants total $15 million over one year. Holger Heyn, leader of the Single Cell Genomics team at the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG), heads one of the projects selected for funding.

 

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.

 

Kelly Arrontes combines art and science in her “Water is Life” mural Blog Post

Kelly Arrontes has completed her artistic project at the Barcelona Science Park which she began in January. Created with the sponsorship of Agbar, the mural depicts water’s four states as it runs for 125 metres along the corridor that connects the Cluster I and Cluster II buildings. Kelly Arrontes, who is legally blind as she only has 9% of normal vision, is a member of ONCE. Her “Water is Life” project won a PCB art contest which was open to the public and anonymously judged.

 

Francesc Posas, named new director of IRB Barcelona Blog Post

Francesc Posas Garriga, an internationally acknowledged researcher in the field of cell biology and full professor of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), is to take up the position of director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). As of 1 May, he will succeed Joan J. Guinovart, who was a key figure in setting up the Institute in October 2005 and who has served as director since.

 

The GAEM Foundation reorganises its Board of Trustees Blog Post

Headquartered in the Barcelona Science Park (Parc Científic de Barcelona, PCB), the GAEM (Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers Group, Grup d’Afectats per l’Esclerosi Múltiple) Foundation is reorganising its governing bodies to include leading medical, biomedical and business figures. The changes in its Board of Trustees are designed to enhance its public image and expand its scope of action by bringing in a wider variety of expertise in biomedicine, research, the private sector and charities.

 

Salvador Aznar Benitah receives an ERC Advanced Grant worth €2.5 M Blog Post

The European Research Council (ERC), a pan-European public organisation that funds research projects, has awarded Salvador Aznar Benitah, ICREA researcher and head of the Stem Cells and Cancer laboratory at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), an Advanced Grant worth €2.5 to continue his studies on the effects of diet on metastasis. With this new award, the centre –located at the Barcelona Science Park– now holds 14 grants from the ERC.

 

New Born Solutions creates the first non-invasive 3-second screening device for infant meningitis Blog Post

The Catalan start-up New Born Solutions has created the first non-invasive screening device for infant meningitis to work in only three seconds. Headquartered in the Barcelona Science Park, the company is one of twenty beneficiaries of the ACCIÓ Startup Capital grant—a cash injection of up to 75,000 euros intended to promote the growth of emerging technology companies—with the product expected to be marketed in 2020.

 

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.