Arian International and the CEI International Affairs will launch the 2nd edition of the European Proposal Writing Course Blog Post

Arian Internacional -a company associated with Barcelona Science Park (PCB) and accredited by ICEX Spain Export and Investment– and the CEI International Affairs –affliated Center to the University of Barcelona in the diplomacy and international relations field– launch the 2nd edition of the European Proposal Writing Course, offering an Expert title, issued by the University of Barcelona (UB).

 

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.

 

Oxolife raises €5 million in a funding round and joins the Barcelona Science Park Blog Post

The biotech Oxolife –focused on the development of a new treatment to improve the female fertility rate– has moved its headquarters to the Barcelona Science Park. The company, which has just raised a €5 million funding round, will start a phase II clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of OXO-001, a drug that specifically acts on embryo implantation to increase pregnancy success rate in assisted reproductive technology processes.

 

Home stroke recovery thanks to virtual reality Blog Post

Today is the World Stroke Day, a medical condition that affects to 14.5 million people every year and it is the leading cause of death in women and the second cause in men. Health innovation contributes speeding up recovery of patients and it drastically reduces the number of visits to clinic as well as the duration of treatment in hospitals and therapy centres. It also reduces costs at the health public system. In these cases, technology can be a powerful ally, as can be seen from EIT Health Innovation Projects. EIT Health Spain, the Spanish Co-Location Center (CLC) of EIT Health, is headquartered at the Barcelona Science Park.

 

Meteosim implements the world’s first comprehensive air quality management system in Riyadh Blog Post

Meteosim, headquartered in the Barcelona Science Park (PCB), has implemented a first-of-its-kind system in Riyadh to integrate, in a single platform, the city’s air quality forecast, atmospheric chemical emergency management and any related decision making. This is the world’s most ambitious project in this field allowing to predict the air quality in any given street in the capital city of Saudi Arabia, which has over 8 million inhabitants.

 

The European project GLAM develops a multiplexed biosensor for personalized diagnosis and therapy for bladder cancers Blog Post

A European consortium led by Centre Tecnològic Leitat –through its Biomed Division in the Barcelona Science Park (PCB)– has finished the GLAM project, the aim of which was to develop a photonic biosensor for a non-invasive diagnosis and personalized therapy for bladder cancers. The project involved the participation of 10 European organizations with resources and capabilities from the academia and scientific and business field, among them the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), which is also located in PCB.