Iproteos, the first biotech to launch an equity crowdfunding campaign in Spain Blog Post

The Catalan biotech Iproteos –based in the Parc Cientific de Barcelona (PCB)– has launched an innovative funding campaign based on equity crowdfunding- through the Creoentuproyecto.com platform– which aims to raise 100,000 € to complete the non-regulatory preclinical stage of its compound IPR019. This compound is one of the 20 drugs in the world that are being developed to slow-down the progression of schizophrenia and revert the cognitive deficits of this condition. Iproteos is a spin-off created in 2011 by two Catalan leading scientists in the field of therapeutic peptides, Teresa Tarragó and Ernest Giralt, based on the transfer of a technology generated at Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the University of Barcelona (UB). In addition, the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG) has given advice on the definition of the business plan and negotiated the technology.

One hundred twenty-five secondary teachers from across Europe participate in the 2nd course Xplore Health Blog Post

The 2nd course of Xplore Health entitled “Bringing biotechnology revolution into the classroom’, was held at the Open Lab at the Barcelona Science Park on 7, 14 and 21 November. The course was aimed secondary school teachers in Catalonia and was organized by the Public Engagement Unit of the PCB with the support of the and the collaboration of the , the of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the European School Net (EUN). On this occasion, the program was offered in parallel at the Museum of La Coruña, and through the virtual community –coordinated by the EUN– which brings together 175,000 teachers and 95,000 European schools.

10 edició de la fira «Recerca en directe»TO TRANSLATE >>> Blog Post

Els propers dies 24, 25 i 26 d’abril tindrà lloc a La Pedrera la 10ª edició de la Fira «Recerca en directe». L’objectiu d’aquest esdeveniment –que organitza anualment el Parc Científic de Barcelona i la Fundació de CatalunyaCaixa– és mostrar diversos projectes que es duen a terme a centres i instituts de recerca de Barcelona, per apropar la ciència a tots els ciutadans i fomentar vocacions científiques entre els joves.

Inventions that make life easier Blog Post

Inventors study new ways of carrying out tasks more easily, rapidly or efficiently. Many researchers strive to achieve this, including the two partners who founded . This start-up company arose from a friendship between two young entrepreneurs during an ERASMUS grant. Sabirmedical has recently joined the Bioincubator PCB-Santander at the Barcelona Science Park.

New Light Technique Developed to Observe Real-Time Cellular Activity on a Nanometric Scale Blog Post

In any biological process, multiple interactions occurring at the molecular level make it impossible to observe live cells in real time, because light microscopes cannot focus light at scales of less than 350 nanometres. New breakthroughs in nanophotonics, however, will shortly enable us to visualise molecular processes at an optical resolution of ten nanometres, according to researcher María García-Parajo, head of the at the Catalonia Institute for Bioengineering (IBEC), located at the PCB. This and other insights appear in an article entitled “Optical antennas focus in on biology”, published in the online edition of the journal Nature Photonics. (doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.37).

Collaboration agreement between the CIDEM-PCB Bioincubator of the Parc Científic de Barcelona and an incubator in Québec Blog Post

On 12th September, the CIDEM-PCB Bioincubator of the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB, Barcelona Science Park) and the business incubator Quebec Biotechnology Innovation Centre (), located in the of Laval Island (Quebec), signed a collaboration agreement which aims to strengthen new cooperation models that support the creation of new enterprises.