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Award ceremony for the Board of Trustees of the UB and Bosch i Gimpera Awards to research and knowledge transfer

02-12-2021On Wedndesday, December 1, the Aula Magna of the Historical Building hosted the award ceremony for the Board of Trustees...

Sandra Acosta «Minibrains represent all the possible brains an individual could have»

19-11-2021Dr Sandra Acosta has developed, together with Dr Lao from CNAG, an artificial intelligence platform that allows them to analyse...

Bluephage launches a crowdfunding campaign and raises 98% of its initial goal in the first week

28-09-2021Bluephage is finalizing details to launch its Rapid Kit. This revolutionary method will help the professional water industry quickly and efficiently detect...

David Bartrés-Faz «What is more important for people with genetic variants that put them at risk of Alzheimer’s, physical exercise or good sleep?»

27-09-2021Dr. David Bartrés-Faz is part of the Barcelona Brain Stimulation Laboratory (BBSLab), a group formed by staff from the Faculty...

A natural compound designated as an orphan drug for cystinuria

07-09-2021A natural compound with antioxidant properties, L-ergothioneine, has been designated as an orphan drug for cystinuria treatment by the European...

Get ready, the F2I-PoC is back with € 100,000 to foster innovation at the UB!

26-07-2021Do you have an idea with a high transfer potential but you lack the resources to carry out a proof...

Mireia Mallandrich «Universities not only create knowledge, but also share it»

20-07-2021Dr. Mireia Mallandrich is a researcher at the NanoBioPharma research group of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of...

DBGen awarded an EASI-Genomics grant for innovative long-read sequencing of inherited retinal dystrophies

08-07-2021DBGen Ocular Genomics, a spin-off company of the University of Barcelona founded by professors Roser Gonzàlez-Duarte and Gemma Marfany Nadal...

Let’s UB!: a meeting point with entrepreneurship

07-07-2021The Ferran Soldevila gardens and several places of the Historical Building of the UB will hold on July, 13, the...

KAI Challenge: swimming 120 kilometres in Costa Brava for its environmental protection

06-07-2021During the summer of 2022, a team of swimmers will swim the whole Costa Brava (120 kilometres) to raise funds...

Awards of the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation and the Board of Trustees

02-07-2021On Tuesday, July 6, at 6:00 p.m., there will be a ceremony in the Historical Building with limited room capacity for the...

La Marató 2020 promotes UB research projects to fight COVID-19

14-06-2021La Marató de TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio in 2020, dedicated to COVID-19, will give 12.5 million euros to fund 36...

Aleix Prat «As an oncologist, what I want is for these instruments to be available for use in our practices»

18-05-2021In September 2020, Dr. Aleix Prat, head of the Medical Oncology Department at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and tenured...

The UB becomes a shareholder of Reveal Genomics, a spin-off born to develop innovative diagnostic tests in oncology

13-05-2021The University of Barcelona has become a shareholder of Reveal Genomics, a spin-off of Hospital Clínic and Vall d’Hebron Institute...

The UB receives more than 700,000 euros to protect the marine areas in Catalonia

07-05-2021The new scientific monitoring program of the marine sites promoted by the Department of Territory and Sustainability will expand its...

The UB, Hospital Clínic and ARTIDIS collaborate to investigate nanomechanical profiling as a novel diagnostic and treatment optimization approach in patients with lung cancer

04-05-2021ARTIDIS AG, a privately held health-tech company, announces a collaboration with Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the University of Barcelona...

The XIV edition of the Social Council of the UB and the FBG awards is already open

04-05-2021The awards of the Social Council of the University of Barcelona and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation for the transfer...

Rubén Alcázar «The economic cost of fertilisers is very low, but their ecological impact is extremely high»

27-04-2021Intensive agriculture and the excessive use of chemical fertilisers lead to significant environmental pollution. One of the most promising measures...

UB spin-offs generate a turnover of over 7 million euros in 2020

27-04-2021Companies based on technology and know-how developed at the University of Barcelona had a turnover of 7.1 million euros in...

Enantia commissions a Kilo Lab for the scale up of chemical processes

23-04-2021Enantia, a company specialized in medicinal chemistry, process chemistry and solid form development, expands its facilities at the Barcelona Science...

Open Innovation Forum 2021: where business innovation challenges find solutions

16-04-2021The call is now open to take part in the 4th edition of the Open Innovation Forum, the program promoted by Biocat,...

A new international consortium to promote Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Huntington’s disease

13-04-2021The Stem Cells for Huntington’s Disease (SC4HD) is a new international consortium created to promote advanced therapy medicinal product (ATMP) through...

Bluephage becomes the first biotech specializeding in microbiological water analysis to achieve B Corp certification

29-03-2021Bluephage, a benchmark company in the biotechnology sector specializing in products for microbiological water analysis, has become a B Corp...

New electrochemical system to decontaminate and disinfect water

22-03-2021The growth of urban environments and activities like agriculture, animal husbandry and industry have made water scarcity and pollution one...

Biostimulants based on soil bacteria to promote plant growth

22-03-2021Intensive agriculture and overuse of chemical fertilisers lead to environmental pollution. One of the most promising measures to make crops...

Dual therapy for neuropathic pain

22-03-2021Neuropathic pain is produced by an injury or condition causing a dysfunction of the central or peripheral nervous system, instead...

A more efficient laser-projection system for high-quality images

22-03-2021Laser light is considered the light source of the future for projectors because it can create high-quality images, requires little...

Innovative therapeutic strategy to treat psoriasis and atopic dermatitis

22-03-2021A multidisciplinary collaboration among four UB research groups has led to a new therapeutic strategy to treat psoriasis and atopic...

Estela Martín Badosa «The world of transfer is quite satisfying, once you get into it»

18-03-2021Estela Martín Badosa is a member of the ‘Optical Trapping Lab – Grup de Biofotònica’ (BiOPT) research group in the...

ColorSensing, a smart packaging solution to reduce food waste

17-03-2021A revolutionary smart packaging solution that helps both packaged food manufacturers and retailers reduce food waste is the flagship product...

The UB grants €150,000 to 5 research projects as part of the F21 call

15-03-2021On 24 February, an online meeting was held between the people who had been awarded grants from the Valorisation Fund...

Accure Therapeutics enrols first patient in the phase II clinical trial on acute optic neuritis with its lead candidate ACT-01

12-03-2021Accure Therapeutics, a private translational R&D engine at clinical stage in the Central Nervous System (CNS) field, has announced the...

Web search engine with more than 100 experimental models developed at the UB

11-03-2021Experimental models are key to generate new knowledge and to address biological and biomedical issues. Nowadays they are widely used...

The UB leads the construction of a pocket high-resolution microscope

10-03-2021An international team led by researchers of the University of Barcelona builds the smallest and cheapest high-resolution microscope to date....

Creatio takes part in the production of CAR-T ARI-0001 advanced therapy

08-03-2021The Production and Validation Center for Advanced Therapies (Creatio) of the University of Barcelona, has taken part in the production...

The FAPEC data compression software allows the acquisition of high-resolution images of the Earth using a nanosatellite

24-02-2021On 18 December 2019, a space launcher carrying the European Space Agency’s (ESA) OPS-SAT nanosatellite, a space laboratory created with...

Launch of four European projects to develop avantgarde technologies

19-02-2021“Novel ideas for radically new technologies”. This is the motto of the Horizon 2020 FET Open program of research and...

Bluephage wins the Senén Vilaró Prize with a technology to measure the microbiological quality of water

10-02-2021Bluephage has been the awardee of the Senén Vilaró Prize to the top innovative company 2020 thanks to its disruptive...

AIGecko Technologies, artificial intelligence at the service of image recognition

04-02-2021Deep learning is a field of artificial intelligence that has revolutionised the market and our daily lives in recent years...

The UB-FBG takes parts in the licencing of a technology that speeds up the detection of bacteria in drinking water

04-02-2021Despite the microbiological screening of water intended for human consumption, neither the water in water supply systems nor bottled water...

M. Carme Llasat «Human beings can intervene and manage to reduce a risk that would otherwise tend to increase»

04-02-2021Maria del Carme Llasat leads the research group Analysis of Adverse Meteorological Situations (GAMA) at the Faculty of Physics. This...

Cytes Biotechnologies starts a project to predict drug toxicity by 3D bioprinted human liver models

25-01-2021Liver damage caused by prescription and over-the-counter drugs is an increasingly important medical, scientific and public health problem. Idiosyncratic drug-induced...

Karim Lekadir «AI may help detect cancer earlier and provide more effective treatments»

18-01-2021Karim Lekadir is the coordinator of EuCanImage, a EUR 10 million project funded by the European Commission and involving nineteen...

The pandemic has not halted the creation of new spin-offs of the University of Barcelona

04-01-2021The Covid-19 pandemic has not dampened the entrepreneurial spirit of the University of Barcelona’s (UB) research staff, who have continued...

Open Innovation Forum continues to drive collaboration between companies and research arena

17-12-2020The third Open Innovation Forum, a program that connects challenges proposed by companies with research groups in the BioRegion, finished out...

Carles Galdeano «We want to provide evidence that our technology can improve the immune response to certain tumours»

01-12-2020One of the most promising strategies in cancer immunotherapy is CAR-T cell therapy, which involves extracting T-cells from a patient,...

UB researchers develop a compound to create new antibiotics against multi-resistant bacteria

19-11-2020A UB team led by Francesc Rabanal, professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry, has...

Crowdfunding to improve the quality of life of ALS patients through podiatric intervention

18-11-2020Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has no cure. That is why its symptomatic treatment is essential to increase the quality of...

Creatio and DataScience collaborate to develop an in silico model for drug screening in neurodegenerative diseases

02-11-2020The Research Group on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine and the Research Group on Computer Vision and Machine Learning of...

Living Lab UB: innovative solutions to solve complex social challenges

30-10-2020The University of Barcelona has launched its social innovation laboratory: Living Lab UB, which has been presented in a telematic...

UB researchers design bug-free software

23-10-2020Computer programs are playing an increasingly important role in the functioning of society. This dependence also entails exposure to the...

Biocontrol Technologies obtains approval in the US for the use of T34 in over 200 types of crops

22-10-2020Biocontrol Technologies, a spin-off of the University of Barcelona dedicated to the research and development of biological solutions for pest...

QuantumCAT: Accelerating the application of quantum technologies

21-10-2020Quantum technologies, based on unique properties of quantum physics, offer unprecedented capabilities for modern applications of the society of information....

EuCanImage: Next-generation artificial intelligence in oncology

09-10-2020EuCanImage has been launched. This project from the Horizon 2020 program is coordinated by Karim Lekadir, Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral...

Eugènia Pujol «We aim to validate the idea that by targeting different pathways we can treat neuropathic pain more effectively»

02-10-2020At only twenty-eight years of age, Eugènia Pujol is entering the last year of her doctorate as head of the...

FOXES project to develop a zero-emission energy supply system

02-10-2020The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of intercommunicating electronic devices. It is the core technology of future-defining concepts...

Universities and Barcelona Activa join forces to develop high-impact solutions to the challenges of the future

01-10-2020Barcelona Activa, along with five prestigious universities —the University of Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Polytechnic University of...

F2I-FVal: 125,000 € for proofs of valorisation

23-09-2020Do you have an idea with a high transfer potential but you lack the resources to carry out a proof...

The FBG improves its results in 2019 by managing 779 projects worth EUR 33.85 million

21-09-2020The FBG has recently published its 2019 Activity Report, which underlines the work carried out by the different areas of...

The FBG receives 9 grants from the Knowledge Industry Programme for the development of innovation projects

31-08-2020The FBG has received funding for the development of nine innovative projects by University of Barcelona research staff within the...

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, the spin-off of UB, BSC and IFAE, pioneers quantum computing in Europe

29-07-2020Quantum computing is a new technology with great transformative potential that is coming into our lives faster than we anticipated...

Espai Abacus pioneers the application of an AI system for mask use recognition (LogMask) in Spain

27-07-2020Abacus Cooperativa and the University of Barcelona have implemented a pioneering Artificial Intelligence system that allows the detection of mask...

Inés Domingo «Until art was born, human beings could only communicate orally and ephemerally»

22-07-2020In 2018, Dr. Inés Domingo, ICREA research professor at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona,...

Promising drug against non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, a severe type of liver disease

21-07-2020Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) affects 2 to 5 percent of the world’s population. It is the most severe form of fatty...

Theannual directory on good governance and regulation quality presents how to improve municipal regulations

17-07-2020UB Professor Juli Ponce co-leds the first Anuario del Buen Gobierno y de la Calidad de la Regulación (annual directory on good...

Cloud-based software to create your own lighting

15-07-2020At home, in the office, using public transport …, people spend 90% of the day exposed to artificial lighting in...

Synchronizing chaos to improve telecommunications security

13-07-2020Telecommunications security is one of the challenges of the digital society. A team from the University of Barcelona (UB), led...

Launch of Gate2Brain, the “key” to transporting drugs into the brain and improving their effectiveness

09-07-2020Researchers from IRB Barcelona, the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute – Hospital Sant...

New strategy to improve the production and effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy

08-07-2020Cancer immunotherapy is one of the most recent major success stories in biomedicine. One of the most promising strategies is...

Wireless technology to improve water quality control

07-07-2020Water is a vital and very useful resource for various industrial sectors. Despite its importance, quality control is still a...

Braingaze will make its ADHD therapy video game accessible from home

26-06-2020Braingaze, a spin-off of the University of Barcelona, will make its video game BGaze Therapy, developed to improve attention skills...

Return to offices of FBG staff

17-06-2020In compliance with Phase 3 of the University of Barcelona’s Lockdown De-escalation Plan, which authorizes the opening of UB centres,...

LogMask, a new artificial intelligence technology to detect the use of masks

09-06-2020The current regulation states it is obligatory to use masks in public closed spaces and whenever people cannot keep a...

UB Innovation Tickets: new aids to promote R&D&I projects

08-06-2020The University of Barcelona launches a new program to promote the R&D&I project contracts: UB Innovation Tickets. The aim is...

Iproteos, a spin-off of the University of Barcelona, merges into Accure Therapeutics

02-06-2020Accure Therapeutics has started its activity in the field of the Central Nervous System (CNS) by announcing a first round...

Josep Lluís Carrion «Covid-19 is class-blind, but its transmission is not»

22-05-2020Dr. José Luis Carrion-i-Silvestre is the director of the Regional Quantitative Analysis Group (AQR), a research group in the field...

Knowledge and Technology Transfer to Face Covid-19

22-05-2020The FBG, the University of Barcelona’s (UB) TTO, continues to provide its management, promotion and consultancy services remotely in order...

The UB takes part in three projects funded by EIT Health to respond to COVID-19

22-05-2020The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT Health) announced the resolution of an extraordinary call for innovation projects to...

Daniel Prades distinguished in the European Research Council Proof of Concept call

06-05-2020Daniel Prades, full professor at the Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering and member at the Institute of Nanoscience and...

The FBG collaborates in the Orfeu program to identify people affected by COVID-19

05-05-2020The Catalan Government has approved the governing agreement that gives green light to the second phase of the Programa Orfeu...

A spin-off of the University of Cambridge develops greener and more efficient cooling systems based on research conducted in collaboration with the UB

05-05-2020Four years ago, Doctors Lluís Mañosa and Antoni Planes, both professors at the Faculty of Physics of the University of...

Juli Ponce «There is an excess of poor legal regulations, but this situation can be fixed»

05-05-2020Dr. Juli Ponce Solé, a Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona, has led the Living...

Nostrum Biodiscovery collaborates in a research project against COVID-19

30-04-2020Nostrum Biodiscovery –a spin-off from thethe University of Barcelona (UB), Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the Barcelona Supercomputing...

The AQR Group analyses the effect of several factors in the COVID.19 spread in Catalonia

28-04-2020The Regional Quantitative Analysis Group (AQR) started a series of analysis on the effects of different local factors in the...

The UB makes hydroalcoholic solution on a large scale for health centers

02-04-2020The University of Barcelona, through its Centre for Research and Production of Experimental Medicines, Farmatec UB, joins the campaign against...

The FBG awards €106,000 to five UB research projects within the framework of the F2I programme

25-03-2020The FBG has awarded the four grants of the Valorisation Fund (FVal) programme and one of the grants of the...

Comunicat de l’FGB en relació al COVID-19

16-03-2020D’acord amb l’estat d’alarma decretat pel Govern de l’Estat, i de conformitat amb les mesures excepcionals que ha adoptat la...

Magdalena Grifoll «Biological decontamination treatments are more effective, cheaper, and more sustainable»

03-03-2020Dr. Magdalena Grifoll, from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona, studies the biotechnological potential of environmental microbial...

CoralChange: a project to study and protect threatened coral by global change

14-02-2020Coral reefs build one of the most diverse, fascinating and productive ecosystems in the planet. However, these biological structures are...

Explore Your Meanings: Virtual Reality to Revolutionize Psychological Therapies

04-02-2020Can you imagine being able to see your self-image with a pair of virtual reality or 3D glasses? Mind and...

Antonio Andrés Pueyo «The challenge of RisCanvi is to detect which inmates pose a high risk of recidivism»

27-01-2020Dr. Antonio Andrés Pueyo is a member of the Group for Advanced Studies in Violence (GEAV) of the University of...

The UB publishes a catalogue of experimental models to promote transfer

27-01-2020Experimental biomedical models are key to advancing the study of diseases and their treatment. Nowadays, they are widely used by...

Neus Otero «Isotope geochemistry gives us a tool to see who is behind contamination»

19-12-2019Neus Otero is a member of MAiMA, a research group of the University of Barcelona that holds ACCIÓ’s TECNIO certification...

UB spin-offs generated a turnover of over five million euros in 2018

19-12-2019Companies based on technology or knowledge developed at the University of Barcelona generated a turnover of €5.3 million in 2018,...

Awards of Board of Trustees of the UB and the FBG to research and transfer knowledge

12-12-2019On Wednesday, December 11, the Aula Magna of the Historical Building held the ceremony for the Board of Trustees and...

The FBG once again brings together UB researchers and investors in the fifth edition of Science + Partners

11-12-2019On 26 and 28 November, the FBG hosted the fifth edition of Science + Partners, an event that brings together...

Magda Polo «We believe we can provide tools to reinforce gender identity therapies through art»

20-11-2019Dr. Magda Polo, from the Faculty of Geography and History, has always been in contact with knowledge transfer in relation...

New advances in the treatment of advanced lung cancer

15-11-2019The University of Barcelona (UB) and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona collaborate with Boehringer Ingelheim Inc. to improve the efficiency of...

Recreation of surgical interventions in Civil War front

07-11-2019During the Spanish Civil War, the units in Loussa mine, in el Molar (Priorat), held a campaign hospital. Now, the Research Group...