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Awards of the UB Board of Trustees and Bosch i Gimpera Foundation to research and knowledge transfer

Yersterday the Aula Magna of the Historical Building of the UB held the ceremony for the Awards of the Board...

The UB generates a collective economic impact of € 6,42 in the European economy per every received euro

On Friday, December 1, the second report “Economic contribution of the LERU universities”, created with data from 2016, by the...

Researchers seek partners and investors in Health & Bio Team Dating to bring their research to the market

Representatives of a total of 24 biomedical research projects have taken part in the third edition of Health&Bio Team Dating,...

Josep Mª Suñé «Many of the prescription drugs people take have been formulated by us»

With a background in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Josep Maria Suñé is the director of the Drug Development Service (SDM),...

Get ready, the F2I is back with € 124,000 to foster innovation at the UB!

Do you have an idea with a high transfer potential but you lack the resources to carry out a proof...

Entrepreneurship and Scientific Quality in the Third Edition of Science + Partners

The third edition of the Science + Partners meeting, organized by the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, took place on 30...

Jordi Alcaraz «I do not know if we will succeed in curing cancer, but we will manage to turn it into a chronic disease and keep it under control»

With only three researchers on staff, the Translational Research Group on Cancer and Pulmonary Fibrosis of the Faculty of Medicine...

Maribel Trillas «Researchers who only care about publications are missing out on half the story»

Maribel Trillas, co-founder of Biocontrol Technologies, was one of the twelve finalists for the European Women’s Innovation Awards 2017. This...

Xavier Hernández «We try to get people to see, touch, and experience the past»

rofessor Xavier Hernández heads the research group Didactics of Heritage, Comprehensive Museography, and New Technologies (DIDPATRI) of the University of...

Verònica Violant: «We have to imbue hospitals with humaneness»

The research group on Hospital Pedagogy in Neonatology and Pediatrics at the University of Barcelona was created in 2014 and...

Jordi Vitrià:«Maybe in the future data banks will be more important than conventional banks»

In recent years data analysis has become a key element called to change the world as we know it. Jordi...

Lluís Francesc Santamaria:“In the future, translational immunology should be able to predict some diseases in order to prevent them”

After thirteen years working in the pharmaceutical sector, Lluís Francesc Santamaria Babí crossed the line between industry and academia to...

Pilar Vinardell «Abandoning animal testing is not only a matter of ethics, it is also cheaper»

Dr. Pilar Vinardell pioneered the search for in vitro methods as an alternative to animal experimentation in Catalonia. “These things...

Ana I. Fernández «We need more female reference figures; Marie Curie is quite a worn-out example by now»

In a men’s world such as the new materials industry, Ana Inés Fernández stands out as a member of DIOPMA,...

The University of Barcelona opens a new line of funding to promote the innovation and transfer activities carried out by its researchers

The University of Barcelona has created the Fund for the Promotion of Innovation (F2I) through the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation,...

Sergi Munné: «The future of universities involves combining basic knowledge and knowledge transfer»

The project to ‘awaken the trees’ developed by the research group Antiox, from the Faculty of Biology, in collaboration with...

Ruth de Diego: «Without language we would have to redefine ourselves as a species»

Ruth Diego Balaguer wanted to devote herself to sociology until psychobiology’s web of brain networks captivated her. Specialized in Cognitive...

Petia Radeva: «Knowledge transfer is a driving force of motivation for researchers»

The passion for numbers that Petia Radeva had since she was a child led her to obtain a degree in...

Laszlo Bax «The lack of investment in innovation is a cultural problem»

When Dr. Hans Supèr discovered vergence eye movement Laszlo Bax did not hesitate to join him to create Braingaze, a...

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