DTI Foundation: A decade promoting research and training in donation and transplant Blog Post

Yesterday, DTI Foundation (Donation &Transplantation Institute) celebrated its 10th anniversary at Barcelona Science Park. The Foundation —created in Barcelona in 2008— was conceived with the aim of providing consultancy, training and support to professionals from public and private organisations in creating, developing and strengthening networks, programmes and services in the area of organ, tissue and human cell donation and transplantation worldwide. Since its formation, the organization has trained over 14,000 healthcare professionals in the area of organ and tissue donation and transplantation in over 100 countries worldwide. 

 

IBEC PhD student receives Daniel Bravo scholarship Blog Post

Jesús Ordoño, PhD student at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), based in the Barcelona Science Park, is one of just three winners in the 2018 call by the Daniel Bravo Andreu Private Foundation grants, which aims to to stimulate high impact biomedical research in Catalonia with scholarships to researchers (in possession of a doctorate, bachelor’s degree or equivalent) who carry out their activity in Catalonia and who wish to make short stays at leading centres in their field in North America or Europe.

 

The ICCUB Technology Unit participates in the elaboration of the most accurate map of the Universe Blog Post

The European Space Agency (ESA) today announced the second file for the Gaia mission, which aims to create the most accurate map of our galaxy, the Milky Way. In its preparation, a team from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), a member of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), has takes part in its elaboration. The engineers of the ICCUB Technology Unit (ICCUB-Tech), located at the Barcelona Science Park, have played a key role in the development of the software for processing and reducing data to create this catalog.

 

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.