“Privacy and Confidentiality: the protection of health-related data”, theme of the IV Seminar of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics at the UB Blog Post

On the 21st of January, the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) will host at the Antoni Caparros Conference Hall the IV International Seminar of the (UB) under the title “Privacy and Confidentiality: the protection of health-related data”. This year, the forum –which is held annually with the aim of promoting the ““of the UNESCO–will focus on fostering a culture sensitive to the protection of the confidentiality of computerized medical records as well as the necessary confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship.

The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and RedEmprendia sign a collaboration agreement Blog Post

The general director of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), Lourdes Arana, and the president of the Ibero-American Business Incubation University Network (RedEmprendia), Senén Barro, signed a collaboration agreement yesterday, with the aim of fostering the actions undertaken by this entrepreneurial universities network. Fernando Albericio, general director of the Barcelona Science Park, and José Antonio Villasante, director of the Santander Universities Global Division, were also present at this event.

An article by IRBio researcher Julio Rozas is ranked as the most cited article in Spain Blog Post

A scientific article signed by Julio Rozas, professor at the Department of Genetics and at the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona –located at the Barcelona Science Park- as leading author, is the most cited work in all of Spain, with 1,815 citations during the 1999-2009 period, according to data from Essential Science Indicators. This ranking, available at the ScienceWatch portal, provides a list of articles with the highest international impact –signed only by authors from the same country- in the twenty countries with the most significant scientific production.

Inveready, based at the Barcelona Science Park, enters the capital of 3scale Blog Post

Inveready Seed Capital, a risk capital company, based at the Barcelona Science Park, that specialises in investing in technological projects at their early stages has entered the capital of 3Scale Networks –a technological start-up company that centres its activity on the web services market -through a round of financing in the amount of one million euros. In addition to Inveready, other business angels and the actual management team of 3Scale have also participated in the operation

The AMGEN Foundation offers it support to a European science dissemination project coordinated by the Barcelona Science Park Blog Post

The Barcelona Science Park (PCB) has received funding amounting to 65,000 euros from the Amgen Foundation in order to sponsor a European project designed to disseminate current research in the field of health by means of a portal that will offer several different activities aimed towards young students and patients. Its objective is to contribute to the improvement of society’s science culture and to foster scientific vocations amongst young people, as well as to provide information on the latest advances and applications of biotechnology in this field by means of different online and onsite activities (scientific experiment workshops, interactive games, debates, etc.) in schools and museums throughout Europe.

Researches from PCB, IRB Barcelona and Intelligent Pharma to collaborate in two TRACE projects Blog Post

Researchers from the Institute of Research in Biomedicine (IRB) -based at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB)– and the Catalan biotech companies Intelligent Pharma –also located at PCB– and Lead Molecular Design, will join forces in two research projects to optimize the procurement of new drugs. Both these projects are endorsed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation through its Transmission of Knowledge to Enterprise programme (TRACE). Moreover, one of the projects will be coordinated by Jordi Quintana, head of PCB´s Drug Discovery platform.

The Hominid group’s expedition to the Galapagos Islands, in “Research in Action” Blog Post

The “Research in Action” portal of the Commission for Universities and Research and the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) will present the work conducted by two Catalan researchers who have followed the steps of Charles Darwin over the course of two months: Jordi Serrallonga, director of the Human Origins group Hominid –located at the Barcelona Science Park- and Ivan Briz, researcher of the Milà i Fontanals Institute of the Higher Council of Scientific Research. Both researchers will describe, by means of a blog, their experiences during the scientific expeditions they took part in in the Galapagos Islands and Tierra del Fuego, respectively, two areas the British naturalist explored nearly 170 years ago.

The Minister of Education, Ernest Maragall, visits the Barcelona Science Park Blog Post

The Minister of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Ernest Maragall, and the General Director of Basic and Secondary Education, Jaume Graells, visited the Barcelona Science Park yesterday in order to get a closer look at the projects and activities that the PCB is conducting in the area of science dissemination. They were both personally welcomed by the general director of the PCB, Fernando Albericio, the managing director, Roser Artal, and the heads of Corporate Relations, Communication and Dissemination of Science of this institution.

The Emprendia Network reviews its action plan for 2010 Blog Post

The Ibero-American University Network of Business Incubators (Red Emprendia), composed of twelve universities –including the University of Barcelona, which promotes the via the Barcelona Science Park-, the Santander bank, which participates in this initiative via its Santander Universities Global Division, and Universia has met at the University of São Paulo (USP) to assess the activities carried out within the framework of its action plan laid out for 2010. The objective is to dynamise the university-enterprise relationship and to foster entrepreneurial culture.