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

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.

 

 

The Barcelona Science Park is committed to becoming Catalonia’s MedTech company hub Blog Post

The Barcelona Science Park (PCB), a Spain’s leading scientific, technological and business innovation hub in the life sciences field, aims to embark on a new phase of growth, offering more than 1,200 square metres of office space, particularly to companies in the MedTech sector. To promote this ecosystem, it has signed an alliance with GENESIS Biomed. This consultancy firm, based in PCB, has raised more than 60 million euros for its clients since it was founded in May 2017 by Josep Lluis Falcó.

 

A pioneering study conducted by Eugin reveals that women with Covid-19 produce virus-free eggs Blog Post

A study carried out by a team of researchers from Eugin’s Basic Research Laboratory, headquartered in the Barcelona Science Park, published in the  journal Human Reproduction, has, for the first time, analysed the eggs of women diagnosed with Covid-19 detecting no viral material within them. The findings, globally considered ground-breaking and pioneering in the field of assisted reproduction, supports the notion that there would be no vertical transmission of the infection from mother to child via their eggs.

 

Kumux launches a 2.0 software which creates differential light to improve human health and plant growth Blog Post

A spin-off by the University of Barcelona Enlighting Technologies, based in the Barcelona Science Park, has created Kumux to launch a 2.0 simulation spectrum software which, through patented algorithms, creates a differential light with beneficial effects for health for both people and plant growth. It is an smart lighting solution –autonomous and based on LED technology–, compatible with different systems and designed so that it can be integrated into any luminaire or control platform.

 

Judit Cubedo, CEO of GlyCardial, finalist for the EU Prize for Women Innovators 2020 Blog Post

Judit Cubedo, co-founder and CEO of GlyCardial Diagnostics, is one of the twenty-one women selected as finalists for the EU Prize for Women Innovators 2020, an award given annually to the most talented and inspiring entrepreneurs in Europe. The company led by Judit, which is based in the Barcelona Science Park, 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 award winners will be announced at the European Research and Innovation Days taking place on 22-24 September 2020.

 

A global team involving ICUB-Tech researchers detects a type of unidentified astronomical object Blog Post

Researchers from the international collaborations LIGO and Virgo, in which the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB) takes part under the coordination of Jordi Portell –co-director of the ICCUB Technology Unit, based in the Barcelona Science Park– have announced the discovery of an object of 2.6 solar masses, placing it firmly into so-called mass gap. That is an interval between the mass of the heaviest neutron star and the lightest blackhole, from which there were no observations yet.

 

Eugin presents pioneering advances in fertility and human reproduction at ESHRE 2020 Blog Post

An analysis of the environment in which the embryos that become implanted in the uterus develop reveals a lower number of senescent (aged) cells than those that are not successful. This is the result of a study presented yesterday at ESHRE 2020, which has been led by researchers from Eugin’s Basic Research Laboratory, headquartered in the Barcelona Science Park. The group also submited at the congress another work –carried out with the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the collaboration of the National Center for Genomic Analysis (CNAG)– which reveals that the quality of the eggs can lie in the networks that create their genes.

 

Investment in companies in the field of life sciences and healthcare in Catalonia grew to €112M in 2019 Blog Post

Life sciences and healthcare start-ups and companies in Catalonia managed to attract €112M of investment in 2019, a figure that has remained stable for four years in a row and is 3% higher than in 2018, according to the study presented today by CataloniaBio & HealthTech and Biocat –based in the Barcelona Science Park– jointly with and EY. Investors and experts predict that in 2020 this will reach a record figure, boosted by an interest in the sector after Covid-19.