IRB Barcelona will bring together 300 young biomedical researchers at the 1st Enable symposium Blog Post

In November 2017, Barcelona will be the first European city to host the 300 young international biomedical researchers, mostly PhD students, who will be participating in the inaugural ENABLE symposium, an initiative promoted by the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). This project was awarded 500,000 euros through the “Celebrating European Science” section of the EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme. The event in Barcelona will be the first of four yearly gatherings, the last one to be held in 2020, that seek to train the next generation of leading biomedical scientists in Europe.

 

Gaia, the first intuitive SaaS software for human, animal & plant metagenomics that compares samples in real time Blog Post

Sequentia Biotech based at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) recently developed Gaia, an online bioinformatics tool able to manage and analyze metagenomic data from any microbial community (bacteria, viruses and eukaryotes) generated by new sequencing technologies (Next Generation Sequencing, NGS) applied to human, animal and plant genetics and automatically integrates all levels of taxonomic classification with functional classification (from the kingdom to the subspecies) in just 12 hours. It is also the first bioinformatics tool that compares samples in real time. This SAAS-based software is available in the cloud and does not require specialized training; making it possible for any researcher who is not versed in bioinformatics to use it. 

 

“La Marató” awards funding to two IRB Barcelona projects on obesity and diabetes Blog Post

Today the “Fundació La Marató de TV3” has announced the 34 winning projects out of 117 presented for funding in the 2015 campaign devoted to obesity and diabetes in an award presentation ceremony held at the Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears, in Barcelona. The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), based at the Barcelona Science Park, has received funding for the two projects that it presented.

 

Molecules activated by light to control glutamate receptors Blog Post

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) based at PCB, the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) and the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon (IGFL) have developed molecules that can modulate the activity of glutamate receptors in the central nervous system, with important applications in biomedicine.

 

IRB Barcelona intensifies its research on cancer with two new recruits Blog Post

Biologist and ICREA Research Professor Núria López-Bigas will join the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) in November as a new Group Leader. Her laboratory brings the number of research groups at IRB Barcelona to 23, a number which will grow again in March 2017 with the arrival of Fran Supek another researcher in the bioinformatics and genomics of cancer.

 

CZ Veterinaria and Bioingenium collaborate in the development of new vaccines Blog Post

Bioingenium, a biotech service company based at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB), and the Galician biopharmaceutical company CZ Veterinaria announce their collaboration in the development of new generation vaccines. CZ Veterinary will invest in a new project where Bioingenium technology is used for the production of recombinant vaccines of new generation, able to improve the protection of animals against diseases. The project started in 2016 and now this new vaccine has successfully passed the first tests in experimental stages.

 

Genome sequencing reveals ancient interbreeding between chimpanzees and bonobos Blog Post

A study led by Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, ICREA researcher at the Centro Nacional de Analisis Genomico (CNAG-CRG) –based at the Barcelona Science Park– and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) – joint centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)–  together with Christina Hvilsom, researcher at the Copenhagen Zoo, reveals ancient admixture events among the extant species closest to humans: bonobos and chimpanzees. The work is published today in Science.

 

IBEC has been designated one of five EU Centers of Excellence in Health in new EC report Blog Post

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has been designated one of five European Centres of Excellence (CoE) in Health in a report by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research & Innovation on European Union international positioning. The other European organizations named as Health CoEs are: CEA Tech- Leti (Grenoble, France); the Trinity College Dublin (Germany); el King’s College London (United Kingdom) and the Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam (Belgium, Netherlands).