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Núria Verdaguer, scientific director of the Structural Biology Unit during of the award ceremony (Photo: SBU).
 31.10.2018

The Structural Biology Unit at IBMB-CSIC received 400.000€ from “La Marató de TV3” 2017 edition

F. Xavier Gomis Rüth and Núria Verdaguer, director and Scientific Director respectively of the Structural Biology Unit (SBU) at the Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC) in the Barcelona Science Park, received the “La Marató” award for their projects on infectious diseases at a ceremony celebrated at the Academy of Medical and Health Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.

 

The project presented by Núria Verdaguer, from the Virus and Large Biological Complexes laboratory, in collaboration with Elisa Martí-Gorostiza from the Developmental Biology department at the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, is awarded with 200.000€. The aim of the project is to unveil the molecular mechanisms of Zika virus to induce congenital neutopatic diseases.

F. Xavier Gomis-Rüth project, from Proteolysis laboratory, is about the study of the Porphyromonas gingivalis sortase to make new advances on the tratment of this periodontal pathogen. The project is awarded with 195.500€. 

The 2017 edition of La Marató de TV3 and Catalunya Radio will finance 36 research projects to create new prevention and diagnostic tools, as well as more efficient treatments with the aim of gaining more years and more quality of life for the patients.The 55 award-winning teams will work for the next three years to find answers to a set of pathologies that, according to experts, will become a serious public health problem in the coming years. Of the total of the awarded projects, 24 are unitary and 12 coordinated between two or more research institutions.

The 9.8 million euros collected in the 2017 edition of La Marató have made it possible to sensitize society and drive research into infectious diseases. The 4% of the total amountawarded goes to the SBU for the research on Zika virus and Porphyromonasgingivalis, a periodontalpathogen.