Present your innovative project at the Asebio Investor Day! Blog Post

The Spanish Bioindustry Association (ASEBIO) and the Spanish Biotech Platform organize the Asebio Investor Day, in collaboration with PCB and Biocat and with the support of ICEX-Invest in Spain. The event will be held on 26 and 27 September at PCB and it is composed of two parts: An investor forum, with leading investors and pharmaceutical companies from around the world on 27 September, and a seminar given by Johnson & Johnson Innovation JLABS on 26 Setember. 

 

Boosting natural detoxification pathways in the body to reduce cellular oxidative stress Blog Post

Promoting innate detoxification mechanisms in the body and discovering which supplements increase the efficacy of those biochemical pathways could be an efficient strategy to reduce the cellular oxidative stress and protect our health, according to an article published in the journal Food Chemistry, by the researchers Rafael Franco, from the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona at the Barcelona Science Park and Eva Martínez Pinilla, from the Institute of Neurosciences of Asturias (INEUROPA) and the University of Oviedo.

 

Esteve co-leads international consortium for the development of more efficacious therapies for neuropathic pain Blog Post

Esteve at the Barcelona Science Park co-leads the NGN-PET consortium, that unites the expertise and knowledge of industry partners from the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and academia for the development of novel, more efficacious treatments for chronic pain of neuropathic origin. NGN-PET is a project launched in the framework of the Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI), the largest public-private partnership (PPP) for health research worldwide co-funded by the EU and the European pharmaceutical industry.

 

Researchers from IBUB create a new technique to measure brown adipose tissue activity Blog Post

Experts from the Institute of Biomedicine of Barcelona (IBUB), located at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) have created a new technique to measure the energy production and use in brown adipose tissue, a key organ in obesity due its capacity to oxidize fat and dissipate energy as heat. This method, published in the scientific journal Advanced Science, improved the precision of previous techniques to fight obesity. 

 

The Barcelona Science Park takes part at the BIO International Convention in San Diego Blog Post

One more year, the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) participates at the BIO International Convention, the top partnering fair for the biomedical sector that will take place from 19 to 22 June in San Diego (California, United States ). More than 18,500 industry leaders and executives from 4,000 companies and international institutions in 76 countries will gather for this convention, hosted annually by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). 

 

Eduard Batlle receives the XI Francisco Cobos Foundation Prize Blog Post

The jury of the XI Francisco Cobos Foundation Prize for excellence in biomedical research has named the scientist Eduard Batlle at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), located at the Barcelona Science Park, winner of the 2017 award, in recognition of his contribution to knowledge of colorectal cancer and the potential of his research to generate new treatments and diagnostic tools for this disease. The presentation of the XI Prize will take place in October during an academic event that will bring together authorities from the scientific community.

 

IBEC celebrates 10 years of excellent interdisciplinary research Blog Post

2017 sees the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) celebrate its first ten years of research activity. lt’s been a hair-raisingly fast climb up to the near top of the tree of centres in the Catalan research arena, with IBEC already holding its own alongside bigger and more established organizations for scientific output, number of ERC grants, patents, spin-offs, training programmes, national or EU-level stamps and endorsements, and other important indicators. Yesterday, the 10th Anniversary Commemorative Ceremony and this week’s Symposium on Bioengineering for Future Medicine at the AXA Auditorium kicked off the celebrations.