Bioengineering for Healthy Ageing Blog Post

Under the theme of “Bioengineering for Healthy Ageing. Adding Life to Years”, more than 75 international scientists, clinicians and other experts met yesterday at CosmoCaixa Barcelona in an event hosted by B·Debate, an initiative of Biocat and the “la Caixa” Foundation. In this edition, the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) –based at the Barcelona Science Park– led the event that brougth together world-renowned researchers to examine possible solutions bioengineering can provide to address the challenges an ageing population faces.

 

Entities from PCB promote their international presence at BIO-Europe 2017 Blog Post

From 6 to 8 November, Belin will host BIO-Europe 2017, the largest partnering gathering of the biotech and pharmaceutical industry in Europe and one of the largest in the world. The event, organized by EBD-Group with the collaboration of Biocat –based at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB)– will again draw over 3,800 industry attendees from over 60 countries, representing more than 2,000 companies and It will have a important representation of PCB.

 

Esteve closes the Board of Directors renewal process with the appointment of Joan Esteve as a Chairman Blog Post

Esteve has just announced changes to its corporate governing bodies. In line with the plan approved by the Group’s Board, Albert Esteve will replace Joan Esteve as Chairman of the Board and announces the appointment of Staffan Schüberg, executive vicepresident of the Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeckas, the group’s Chief Executive Officer. Since 2012, all discovery and preclinical development key units of Esteve are located at the Barcelona Science Park with the latest infrastructure and technology in a top-level academic and scientific environment in Spain.

 

Embryotools successfully concludes the first trials on an innovative assisted reproduction technique Blog Post

Embryotools —headquartered at Barcelona Science Park (PCB)— has successfully concluded tests on animal models to validate an innovative assisted reproduction technique known as Maternal Spindle Transfer (MST).  This new technique is a mitochondrial replacement therapy which groups of leading scientists from around the world are studying for the prevention of mitochondrial diseases, which are transmitted maternally and currently have no treatment. Embryotools has been working on this project for over three years in partnership with the PCB-PRBB Animal Facility Alliance and the company Reprogenetics UK, located at Oxford University.

 

An increase in low density lipoproteins would favour insulin resistance Blog Post

A study led by the University of Barcelona proved that low-density proteins (VLDL) can worsen insulin resistance, a disease that favours the development of type 2 diabetes. The study, published in the scientific journal Diabetologia , has been carried out by the research group led by Manuel Vázquez Carrera, researcher from the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Chemistry and the Institute of Biomedicine of the UB (IBUB), located at the Barcelona Science Park.

 

Barcelona Science Park to take part in 1st ENABLE symposium Blog Post

The Barcelona Science Park (Parc Científic de Barcelona, PCB) will be well represented at the first ENABLE symposium, a three-day international biomedical event organised by doctoral students and postdoctoral scientists from all over the world to underpin their professional futures in the European setting. The project is coordinated by the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Institut de Recerca Biomèdica, IRB Barcelona) from its headquarters at the PCB and has been awarded €500,000 by the Horizon 2020 SwafS – Celebrating European Science programme. 

 

Three innovation projects at IRB Barcelona are granted funding for market development Blog Post

The Catalan’ Government’s Agency for Management and of University and Research Grants (Agencia de Gestió i Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR)) has awarded around 220,000 euros to three innovation projects underway at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) at the Barcelona Science Park. These funds have been provided through the 2016 Knowledge Industry grant call, a programme cofunded by European Regional Development Funds (ERDFs) devoted to Catalonia in the period 2014-2020.

 

A pioneer project to promote organ donation in the European Union and neighbouring countries Blog Post

Raising awareness among society and promoting the training around highly specialized experts in the 28 member countries of the European Union and its neighbouring countries in the community area, aiming to improve the rate of organ donations are the main reference points for EUDONORGAN. This European project is led by the University of Barcelona (UB), together with Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG) and the DTI Donation & Transplantation Institute, located at the Barcelona Science Park.