More than 5,000 applications received to participate in the NEUBIAS project coordinated by IRB Barcelona Blog Post

More than 5,000 people have applied to participate in the different training courses offered by the NEUBIAS project, which seeks to expand knowledge in the field of bioimage analysis. Coordinated by IRB Barcelona at PCB, ​​NEUBIAS is the only network of bio-imaging analysts in Europe. It has more than 250 members from 42 countries who share knowledge to improve image analysis technology.

 

Baula donates 18,000 cleaning kits to Càritas Girona Blog Post

The startup Baula, based in the Barcelona Science Park, has donated 18,000 kits of ecological cleaning products to Cáritas Diocesana de Girona, which will be distributed as basic necessities to vulnerable families cared for by the entity. The capsule format facilitates transportation and logistics compared to conventional products. The provision of goods to 18,000 families would equate to 72,000 kilograms of conventional cleaning products. In comparison, Baula’s tablets weigh a total of 4,500 kilograms.

 

Esteve adds its weight to the fight against the pandemic through donations and research collaborations Blog Post

Esteve is participating in 3 European projects aimed at identifying and/or repositioning drugs that are active against COVID-19; at detecting SARS-CoV-2 ; and at analyzing the involvement of the sigma-1 receptor in the viral infection cycle. Additionally, the pharmaceutical group –which has its Drug Discovery and Preclinical Development Center at the Barcelona Science Park– has made donations targeted at health professionals, patients and people on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Histones and their modifications are crucial for adaptation to cell stress Blog Post

The Cell Signaling laboratory at IRB Barcelona, ​​led by Eulàlia de Nadal and Francesc Posas at the Barcelona Science Park, has identified more than 200 regions (amino acids) in histones that are responsible for regulating the response to cell stress. The study reports that histones undergo distinct modifications depending on the type of cell stress.

 

Juan Carlos Kaski, new Chief Medical Officer of GlyCardial Diagnostics Blog Post

GlyCardial Diagnostics, based in the Barcelona Science Park, announces the appointment of Prof. Juan Carlos Kaski as Chief Medical Officer. The company –a spinoff of the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (IR-HSCSP) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), is conducting a clinical trial to validate the performance of Apo J-Glyc as a novel biomarker for the early detection of Myocardial Ischaemia.

 

The Park collaborates on a project for mass COVID-19 testing service led by IBEC, IRB Barcelona and CNAG-CRG Blog Post

The Government of Catalonia has approved the creation of the Orfeu Programme with the aim of having new diagnostic tests for COVID-19, as a complement to the capacity of the health system. In an initial phase, there will be two mass testing sites: one at the Barcelona Science Park, jointly coordinated by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG); and another coordinated by the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) at its labs at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB).

 

Nostrum Biodiscovery appoints Ezequiel Mas as its new CEO and embarks on an ambitious expansion plan Blog Post

Nostrum Biodiscovery (NBD) has appointed Ezequiel Mas del Molino as its new CEO to lead a new phase of the company, which is establishing a leading position in the European market as a provider of cutting-edge bioinformatics technologies for drug design and discovery. NBD –a spin-off from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS), the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)– is located at the Barcelona Science Park and the North Campus of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).