IRB Barcelona collaborates with Amazon to develop a computational tool speeding up research against SARS-CoV-2 Blog Post

IRB Barcelona’s Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology Laboratory, led by ICREA researcher Patrick Aloy at the Barcelona Science Park, has joined forces with Amazon Sciences to develop a computational tool, using artificial intelligence, that generates a open access database that includes all the published scientific results related to the treatment of SARS-CoV-2.

 

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. 

 

AECC backs cancer research involving 3D models at IRB Barcelona Blog Post

The Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC) –in collaboration with Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and the Fondazione AIRC per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC)– has awarded more than €500,000 euros of funding to an IRB Barcelona project, within the framework of the Accelerator Awards call.  the project will allow researchers to study the complexity and heterogeneity of cancer using culturable mini-cancers, also known as organoids, derived from patients.

 

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). 

 

Baula raises €1.3M to take the leap to the B2C sector Blog Post

Baula, a technology-based company focused on the ecological and sustainable development of innovative products for the cleaning sector, has closed a €1.3M financing round. The startup specializing in eco-friendly cleaning products will be earmarking this new injection of funds to bolster its human capital, increase production capacity, consolidate its position in the B2B sector and roll out the second phase of its business plan: conquering the domestic and international B2C markets. Since it was established in 2015 in the Barcelona Science Park, Baula has raised 1.8 million euros in public and private capital. It currently has trade agreements in 16 countries in Europe, Africa, North America and Oceania.