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A project led by IBMB-CSIC tests molecules that stop the cytokine storm caused by SARS-CoV-2

A team of researchers led by Timothy Thomson’s group from the Barcelona Institute of Molecular Biology (IBMB-CSIC), based at the Barcelona Science Park, has developed a platform that allows to see in real-time if a drug inhibits the immune cellular response caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection. The project has the advantage that all the molecules being tested are previously known drugs and compounds that are used for other clinical indications. This would expedite the necessary procedures to propose, in due course, the use in patients with COVID-19.

 

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PCB adds to the call led by SOMMa, ASEICA and AseBio to place R&D&I at the heart of the country strategy

The Barcelona Science Park joints the appeal, led by SOMMaASEICA and AseBio, which calls for long-term strategies aimed at promoting frontier science and business innovation. More than 40 leading organisations, scientific associations and innovative companies have signed a document that calls for Spain to reach and exceed 2.5% investment in R&D by 2027 and radically change its current economic model. This initiative aims to add and provide strategic solutions to the recent Pact for Science and Innovation that the Government has just announced.

 

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BHV Partners settles in the Barcelona Science Park and closes a 500,000 euros investment round

BHV Partners, the first venture builder in the southern European health sector, has moved its headquarters to the Barcelona Science Park, and closes an investment round, raising half a million euros. In just over a year of history, the company, also based in Silicon Valley (San Francisco), has established itself as a leading driver in the biomedical innovation and entrepreneurship scene; it has three startups in its portfolio; has established several consulting contracts with companies and research centers, and is initiating an ambitious phase of national and international expansion.

 

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Researchers reveal the evolutionary events leading to the creation of eukaryotic cells

A collaborative study between the groups of Toni Gabaldón, ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and Berend Snel at the University of Utrecht, has reconstructed the evolutionary events leading to the creation of eukaryotic cells, the precursors to virtually all life you can see with the naked eye. The work, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, reveals that The evolutionary timeline from simple bacterial cells to complex eukaryotic cells progressed differently than previously thought.

 

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Researchers discover the adhesion mechanism of the bacterium that causes 40% of atypical pneumonias

Researchers from Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC) –based in the Barcelona Science Park– and the Institute for Natural Science and Technology at the University of Osaka, has succeeded in determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins by means of which the bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae –that cause 40% of atypical pneumonias– attaches itself to human cells and initiates infection. From the structure, this team of scientists have designed antibodies that decrease this adhesion capacity and opens the door to develop new therapies and vaccines against this pathogen.

 

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Moirai Biodesign developes a diagnostic kit for the detection of sepsis in three hours

Moirai Biodesign, a biotech start-up based in the Barcelona Science Park, has developed a prototype ‘kit’ based on biosensors that analyzes a blood sample and identifiesthe most important sepsis-causing pathogens and their associated antibiotic resistances, at the point of care and directly from the patient’s blood, in just three hours, a process that usually requires up to 5 days of analysis in the laboratory. The company has just received a €75,000 grant through the Startup Capital financing line from ACCIÓ to  to set about the activities derived from the execution of the initial business plan. Its objective is to market this device in hospitals, once the validation phase is completed.The kit will allow identification 

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SOM Biotech identifies eravacycline as an effective treatment against SARS-CoV-2

The biopharmaceutical company SOM Biotech,based in the Barcelona Science Park, announces the preclinical validation studies of eravacycline as an effective treatment against SARS-CoV-2. The conclusions of the studies will be presented at the virtual event IDWeek 2020. that will be held from October 21 to 25. Eravacycline is one of the three drugs that the company has identified and validated in collaboration with Ewha Womans University for the treatment of the new coronavirus, and SOM already plans to carry out a Phase 2 clinical trial.

 

 

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Ernest Giralt, first IRB Barcelona Emeritus Professor

Ernest Giralt Lledó is retiring after 15 years at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), where he has played a key institutional and scientific role. Dr Giralt, today an international reference for science of excellence, will continue to be linked to Institute as an Emeritus Professor. This appointment will allow him to share his guidance and expertise with the current community of scientists.

 

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Scott Boyer joins Chemotargets as new CEO

Chemotargets, a global leader in predictive analytics solutions for the pharma and biotech sector, has appointed Dr. Scott Boyer as new CEO. He takes over from Dr. Jordi Mestres, who becomes Chief Scientific Officer and will maintain his position as President of the Board. With the new incorporation, the company, based in the Barcelona Science Park, consolidates its transition from a software business to an AI-driven biotech company.

 

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