Xavier Trepat from IBEC and Salvador Aznar from IRB Barcelona elected as EMBO members Blog Post

ICREA research professors Xavier Trepat at IBEC and Salvador Aznar Benitah at IRB Barcelona –both centers based at the Barcelona Science Park, have been elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Each year, EMBO, which has a membership of 1,800, selects new scientists to join its ranks. Of the 62 researchers from 24 countries to receive membership this year, Xavier and Salvador are are the only two  researchers from Spain.

 

DTI Foundation: A decade promoting research and training in donation and transplant Blog Post

Yesterday, DTI Foundation (Donation &Transplantation Institute) celebrated its 10th anniversary at Barcelona Science Park. The Foundation —created in Barcelona in 2008— was conceived with the aim of providing consultancy, training and support to professionals from public and private organisations in creating, developing and strengthening networks, programmes and services in the area of organ, tissue and human cell donation and transplantation worldwide. Since its formation, the organization has trained over 14,000 healthcare professionals in the area of organ and tissue donation and transplantation in over 100 countries worldwide. 

 

IBEC PhD student receives Daniel Bravo scholarship Blog Post

Jesús Ordoño, PhD student at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), based in the Barcelona Science Park, is one of just three winners in the 2018 call by the Daniel Bravo Andreu Private Foundation grants, which aims to to stimulate high impact biomedical research in Catalonia with scholarships to researchers (in possession of a doctorate, bachelor’s degree or equivalent) who carry out their activity in Catalonia and who wish to make short stays at leading centres in their field in North America or Europe.

 

Mind the Byte opens an office in Toronto Blog Post

Mind the Byte, a pioneer company in the development of technologies based on artificial intelligence, cloud and big data for computational drug design, located in the Barcelona Science Park, announces the incorporation of a Canadian subsidiary, Mind the Byte Ltd, and the opening of a new office in Toronto. The new location in the heart of city’s tech hub is ideally situated in Canada’s largest biotech cluster, offering a range of opportunities for collaboration and partnership.

 

The ICCUB Technology Unit participates in the elaboration of the most accurate map of the Universe Blog Post

The European Space Agency (ESA) today announced the second file for the Gaia mission, which aims to create the most accurate map of our galaxy, the Milky Way. In its preparation, a team from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), a member of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), has takes part in its elaboration. The engineers of the ICCUB Technology Unit (ICCUB-Tech), located at the Barcelona Science Park, have played a key role in the development of the software for processing and reducing data to create this catalog.

 

The 14th edition of the BATX2LAB programme gets underway Blog Post

The Barcelona Science Park has just opened the registration period for participating in the 14th edition of BATX2LAB, the research project programme aimed at bachillerato (High School) students. This initiative is part of PCB’s Research in Society initiative—a proposal to bring science to citizens and encourage young people to consider jobs in the field—that offers over 100 activities in which around 5,000 people participate every year.

 

Creating the map of cells of the human body with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Blog Post

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, today announced new funding for 85 projects to support the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), a global effort to map every type of cell in the healthy human body as a resource for studies of health and disease. The grants total $15 million over one year. Holger Heyn, leader of the Single Cell Genomics team at the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG), heads one of the projects selected for funding.

 

GalChimia opens an R&D centre in the Barcelona Science Park Blog Post

Galician company GalChimia –a specialist in organic chemistry products and services for the pharmaceutical industry– has today opened its R&D centre in the Barcelona Science Park to step up its growth and internationalisation strategy. With this first subsidiary the Galicia-based company expects to increase its turnover by 25% over the next two years and step up its growth and internationalisation plan.