AECC backs cancer research involving 3D models at IRB Barcelona Blog Post

The Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC) –in collaboration with Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and the Fondazione AIRC per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC)– has awarded more than €500,000 euros of funding to an IRB Barcelona project, within the framework of the Accelerator Awards call.  the project will allow researchers to study the complexity and heterogeneity of cancer using culturable mini-cancers, also known as organoids, derived from patients.

 

Núria Montserrat wins Íñigo Álvarez de Toledo Award for Basic Research Blog Post

Núria Montserrat, ICREA research professor and principal investigator of the “Pluripotency for organ regeneration group” at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in the Barcelona Science Park, has unanimously won the XXXI Íñigo Álvarez de Toledo Award for Basic Research granted by the Fundación Renal Íñigo Álvarez de Toledo (FRIA). 

 

IBEC and EMBL brought together more than 150 worldwide experts to debate on the medicine of the future Blog Post

This week, the EMBL-IBEC Winter Conference –organised by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)– brought together more than 200 international experts in the field of bioengineering at La Pedrera building in Barcelona. At the opening of the event, which was led by the mayor Ada Colau, attention was drawn to Barcelona’s consolidation as an international centre of research and knowledge.

 

Baula raises €1.3M to take the leap to the B2C sector Blog Post

Baula, a technology-based company focused on the ecological and sustainable development of innovative products for the cleaning sector, has closed a €1.3M financing round. The startup specializing in eco-friendly cleaning products will be earmarking this new injection of funds to bolster its human capital, increase production capacity, consolidate its position in the B2B sector and roll out the second phase of its business plan: conquering the domestic and international B2C markets. Since it was established in 2015 in the Barcelona Science Park, Baula has raised 1.8 million euros in public and private capital. It currently has trade agreements in 16 countries in Europe, Africa, North America and Oceania.

 

Dreamers Startup Ventures signs an agreement to invest up to $1.1M in Oncoheroes Biosciences Blog Post

Dreamers Startup Ventures has committed to invest up to $1.1M in Oncoheroes Biosciences, a biotech company exclusively focused on the development of innovative medicines to treat cancer in children and adolescents. Oncoheroes was co-founded by Ricardo Garcia and Cesare Spadoni, two parents touched by childhood cancer and determined to change the outlook for these young patients. Founded at Boston, the company has the European headquarters at the Barcelona Scientific Park where its discovery lab looks for novel targets and molecules.

 

Researchers from CNAG-CRG and IRB Barcelona contribute to the description of the most comprehensive map of cancer genomes Blog Post

The international team of scientists of the ‘Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Project’ (PCAWG) today published 23 studies in the Nature journals, describing the most comprehensive map of cancer genomes from 38 types of tumours to date. Among the 1,300 researchers who have contributed to the project are scientists from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) in the Barcelona Science Park.The results are an important step for the development of personalised medicine to treat cancer.

 

Núria López-Bigas receives the National ‘Doctores Diz Pintado’ Cancer Research Prize Blog Post

Núria López-Bigas, ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) in the Barcelona Science Park, has received the IX National ‘Doctores Diz Pintado’ Cancer Research Prize for her career path. The researcher is the first female scientist to be presented with this prize, which is presented every year by the Fundación de Investigación del Cáncer de la Universidad de la Salamancaa (FICUS)-Centro de Investigación del Cáncer (USAL-CSIC)  to promote and acknowledge the contribution of young Spanish researchers to Cancer Research.

 

Launch of the ODISSeA Postgraduate Programme on Organ Donation to train experts in Southeast Asia Blog Post

About three hundred experts from Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand will be the first generation to complete the ODISSeA Postgraduate Programme in Organ Donation. This initiative is carried out as part of the project ODISSeA, led by the University of Barcelona and promote by DTI Foundation–Donation & Transplantation Institute, based in the Barcelona Science Park, to boost highly specialized training among professionals in this field to the countries of Southeast Asia.