The Barcelona City Council awards Ernest Giralt with the “Ciutat de Barcelona” award Blog Post

Ernest Giralt, group leader of the Design, synthesis and structure of peptides and proteins Laboratory at IRB Barcelona –located at the PCB– and  professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Barcelona has received  the ‘Ciutat de Barcelona’ Award in the category of Experimental Sciences and Technology. The awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday, February 10 in the City Council, and will be chaired by Mayor Xavier Trias.

Sights set on the next generation of shuttle peptides to target the brain Blog Post

IRB Barcelona scientists Benjamí Oller, Macarena Sánchez, Ernest Giralt, and Meritxell Teixidó, all from the Peptides and Proteins Lab of the Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Programme, have written a review on the emerging field of shuttle peptides—molecules that have the capacity to transport drugs across the blood-brain barrier and thus treat diseases affecting the central nervous system. The article will be featured on the cover of September’s issue of Chemical Society Reviews.