{"id":49475,"date":"2018-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/bbva-foundation-funds-an-ibec-project\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:55:22","slug":"bbva-foundation-funds-an-ibec-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/en\/bbva-foundation-funds-an-ibec-project\/","title":{"rendered":"BBVA Foundation funds an IBEC project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbbva.es\/equipo\/medirobots-nanorobotica-precision-tumores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEDIROBOTS: Precision nanobotomy against tumors<\/a>,\u00a0 will develop biocompatible robots driven by enzymes with applications as drug release systems whose progress in vitro and in vivo can be traced using advanced molecular imaging techniques such as super-resolution microscopy.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the IBEC group proposes to take advantage of the chemical reaction that causes the propulsion of these nanoparticles as a contrast agent to improve the molecular image. The ultimate goal will be that lower quantities of a cancer drug would need to be administered, thus reducing the many side effects that can occur.<\/p>\n<p>With this funding programme, the BBVA Foundation support highly innovative biomedical research in which involves significant potential advances in understanding diseases and improvements in diagnosis and treatment. It is usually given to at consolidated teams that have a robust, high-quality track record. In the 2018 call, there were 146 projects submitted in total.<\/p>\n<p>The other five winning projects, which will be developed in research centers in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bMadrid and Salamanca, will look for biomarkers that give early warning of the most aggressive breast cancer; minimize the damage suffered by heart tissue after a heart attack, by visualizing the affected area; find new therapeutic approaches for some pathologies associated with obesity; and understand a possible and little-known link between aging and cancer.<\/p>\n<p>All the selected projects had one of two themes in common: new molecular imaging techniques, or diseases associated with defects in metabolism \u2013 which, like obesity, are increasingly prevalent in our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICREA research professor Samuel S\u00e1nchez\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibecbarcelona.eu\/nanodevices\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Smart Nano-Bio-Devices group<\/a>\u00a0at IBEC will receive the support for three years to develop a project\u00a0into more efficient anticancer drug delivery systems\u00a0from the BBVA Foundation under its \u2018<em>Ayudas a Equipos de Investigaci\u00f3n en Biomedicina\u2019<\/em> funding programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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