Whole Genix receives the 2019 ‘Medicina Siglo XXI’ Award for Medical Innovation Blog Post

The company Whole Genix, based in the Barcelona Science Park, received the 2019 ‘Medicina Siglo XXI’ Award in the Medical Innovation category during the gala marking the II edition of these prizes, held on Friday in Hotel Arts in Barcelona. With these awards, the editorial group El Suplemento aims to value the professional, scientific and innovative talent of professionals who work for and for health in various specialties and from different Spanish cities.

 

Launch of “StarLife”, a new informatics infrastructure to boost biomedical research Blog Post

Today marks the official presentation of “StarLife”, an informatics cluster that is housed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. This infrastructure is designed to give impetus and service to biomedical research of excellence and precision medicine. A joint initiative of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) based in the Barcelona Science Park, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG). StarLife is funded by the Catalan Government –through the ERDF– and ”la Caixa”.

 

IBEC researchers generate mini-kidneys vascularized from stem cells Blog Post

Researchers from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) at the Barcelona science Park, have created, for the first time, 3D organoid cultures from pluripotent stem cells, which resemble human embryonic kidney tissue during the second trimester of pregnancy. Using biomaterials that mimic the embryonic microenvironment, scientifics have also achieved mini-kidneys with relevant features for immediate use in renal disease modeling.

The Human Protein Atlas will pave the way to personalized medicine Blog Post

World leaders in proteomics are meeting with local doctors and researchers today and tomorrow at CosmoCaixa Barcelona, in an event held by B·Debate, an initiative by Biocat and Obra Social ‘la Caixa’, co-organized in this edition by the Barcelona Science Park (PCB), ProteoRed-ISCIII, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO). Four scientists of renowned prestige in this field –including Dr. Eliandre de Oliveira, head of the PCB’s Proteomics Platform– lead this debate.

 

IBEC joins with Avinent to create prostheses that become real bone Blog Post

Advances in 3D bioprinted prostheses that are truly incorporated into the body –with their own blood vessels and sensitivity– are becoming increasingly more remarkable. This has been demonstrated by Avinent Implant System and the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group led by Elisabeth Engell at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), that are jointly developing an ambitious project to create 3D printed pieces from biomaterials.

 

Researchers find the genetic basis psychiatric disorders have in common Blog Post

Psychiatric disorders share a great genetic subsceptibility, while non-psychiatric neurological disorders –such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s- have a more specific genetic, according to an article the journal Science has published. The work is the most ambitious and extense on shared genetic factors in brain disorders. In this multicentre study –driven by Verneri Anttila, Aiden Corvi and Ben Neale from the Brainstorm Consortium– participate the lecturers Bru Cormand and Raquel Rabionet, from the Faculty of Biology and members of the Institute of Biomedicine of the UB (IBUB) in the Barcelona Science Park, among more than 500 experts from around the world. 

 

The Fem Talent 2018 Awards recognize Judit Anido and ProteoDesign Blog Post

Two companies based in the Barcelona Science Park have been recognized in this year’s edition of the Fem Talent awards. Dr Judit Anido, co-founder and CEO of Mosaic Biomedicals, has received the “Emerging Talent” award, and the company ProteoDesign –created by Silvia Frutos, Miquel Vila-Perelló, Silvia Frutos, Marc Montserrat and Tom W. Muir– has been a finalist in the ‘Organisation with Fem Talent Values’ category.