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The University of Barcelona awards 118,000 euros to research projects with high transfer potential

27-02-2024The University of Barcelona (UB) has awarded 118,000 euros to research projects with great potential for transfer through the Bosch...

The University of Barcelona promotes the development of a new generation of ultra-fast infrared cameras

27-02-2024The University of Barcelona (UB), through the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation and with the support of Banco Santander, has granted...

UB researchers develop new technology for real-time super-resolution microscopy with live samples

27-02-2024The University of Barcelona (UB) has awarded 25,000 euros to the project “TRACTOR: super-resoluTion laseR scAnning miCroscopy wiTh phOtoswitchable fluRophors”...

Hepatitis A vaccine faster to produce and more affordable

27-02-2024Hepatitis A is the cause of major epidemic outbreaks such as the one that started in the United States in...

UB researchers lead a project to find new therapeutic options for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme

27-02-2024Researchers at the University of Barcelona (UB) are developing a promising project that aims to provide new therapeutic options for...

The University of Barcelona attends the 4YFN at the Mobile World Congress

19-02-2024The University of Barcelona is back at the 4 Years From Now (4YFN), the platform dedicated to start-ups and entrepreneurship...

“Video games are a very effective tool for the transmission of knowledge”

19-02-2024We interviewed Dr. Xavier Rubio Campillo, Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education of the University of...

A digital platform supported by Artificial Intelligence promotes emotional health in the workplace

15-02-202411% of mental illnesses causing occupational incapacity are attributed to working conditions. Factors such as work-related stress are precursors of...

Innovative immunotherapy-based strategy to combat severe antibiotic-resistant infections

08-02-2024Antibiotic resistance is a global health problem that in 2019 resulted in more than 4.95 million deaths worldwide attributable to...

The UB participates in a project to identify new therapeutic targets for diseases of the central nervous system

06-02-2024A research team from the University of Barcelona (UB) is taking part in a consortium to develop new therapeutic targets...

The University of Barcelona organizes the IV edition of the Investment Forum

02-02-2024The University of Barcelona, ​​through the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation and StartUB!, organizes the IV Investment Forum with the aim...

Functional foods against childhood obesity

01-02-2024Childhood obesity has reached alarming levels in recent decades, becoming one of the main health concerns for children. According to...

New therapeutic approach to treat retinitis pigmentosa and other serious eye diseases

30-01-2024Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a severe visual disorder affecting the retina. It is a rare genetic disease, whose symptoms usually...

The UB participates in a consortium to develop a new drug for the treatment of Huntington’s disease

25-01-2024Huntington’s disease is a neurological disease caused by a mutation in the huntingtin gene (HTT) that leads to motor, cognitive,...

Three UB spin-offs receive almost one million euros to boost the development of their technologies

18-01-2024The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, as part of NEOTEC’s 2023 call, has awarded a total of 917,389 euros...

The University of Barcelona reaches more than 1.65 million euros in funding for its research groups

12-01-2024The University of Barcelona (UB) has obtained €1,656,043.90 in funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation’s “Grants for...

The University of Barcelona participates in the development of a new cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of fungal infections

04-01-2024The University of Barcelona (UB) has participated in the development of a new cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of invasive...

Successful Closing of the Fifth Edition of the “From Science to Market” Program

04-01-2024On December 12, the closing of the fifth edition of the “From Science to the Market” program took place, a...

The University of Barcelona awards a prize to an audiovisual project for the prevention of risks derived from gambling

20-12-2023The University of Barcelona (UB) has awarded the Antoni Caparrós prize to Dr. Hibai López González, lecturer at the UB’s...

The University of Barcelona recognises a non-invasive study that assesses the health of fish populations

20-12-2023The University of Barcelona (UB) has awarded the Antoni Caparrós Prize of the Social Council of the UB and the...

The UB spin-off, Gate2Brain, wins the Senén Vilaró Prize for the development of a technology that facilitates the delivery of drugs to the brain

20-12-2023The spin-off of the University of Barcelona (UB), Gate2Brain, has won the Senén Vilaró Award from the Social Council of...

The Bosch i Gimpera Foundation and the Social Council of the UB reward quality research and cases of returning knowledge to society

14-12-2023On Tuesday, December 19, the XIX Prizes of the Social Council of the UB and XVI of the Bosch i...

Classical music concerts grow by more than 30% in a year, according to a UB study

14-12-2023The Catalan Association of Classical Music Performers (ACMIC) presented this Wednesday the second edition of the report ‘The current situation...

A new type of more efficient catalyst for the chemical industry

05-12-2023Basic chemical compounds are a fundamental part of the chemical industry, since they are necessary for the manufacture of more...

New bacterial biostimulant improves crop yield and quality while protecting against cold and salinity

04-12-2023Climate change has brought about sudden temperature changes in recent decades, such as colder winters, and has also increased the...

“With the 3D bioprinter, we will manufacture artificial tissue to help cure currently incurable illnesses”

20-11-2023We interview Dr Josep Maria Canals, Director of Creatio UB and full professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health...

The UB-FBG licenses innovative technology to develop new therapeutic strategies against immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs)

13-11-2023IMIDs encompass a heterogeneous group of disorders characterised by a chronic, abnormal immune response that results in inflammation throughout the...

Nimble Diagnostics secures a €2.5 million grant from the EIC Accelerator programme

02-11-2023Nimble Diagnostics has been awarded a €2.5 million grant from EIC Accelerator, a funding programme of the European Innovation Council...

The University of Barcelona managed more than 800 research and transfer projects during 2022

27-10-2023During 2022, the University of Barcelona (UB) managed 819 research and transfer projects, valued at 53.98 million euros. In addition,...

New light-activatable drugs to facilitate anti-tumour treatment

25-10-2023A project to promote the application of new light-activated drugs to facilitate anti-tumour treatment in patients, led by Vicente Marchán,...

“It is essential to ensure that the knowledge generated at universities reaches society”

24-10-2023We interviewed Dr. Mercè Segarra, Vice-Rector for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transfer and Professor of the Department of Materials Science and...

The Bosch i Gimpera Foundation commemorates its 40th anniversary as a driving force for knowledge transfer and innovation at the UB

17-10-2023On Monday 16 October, the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG) commemorated its fortieth anniversary as a centre for knowledge transfer...

Forty years supporting research and innovation

11-10-2023The Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG), the University of Barcelona’s centre for knowledge transfer, technology and innovation, will be celebrating...

“Fear, uncertainty and pain make people more susceptible to conspiracy theories”

21-09-2023We interviewed Dr Mariona Taulé i Delor, director of the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics of the Faculty...

Spin-off success at the University of Barcelona: Five companies exceed one million euros in turnover in 2022

14-09-2023The University of Barcelona (UB) has achieved unprecedented success with its spin-offs, companies based on a technology or knowledge developed...

“We like to build community organisations to respond to discrimination and oppression”

18-07-2023We interviewed Dr. Moisès Carmona, Professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Barcelona and a member of...

Nanoparticles as a treatment for dry eye disease

12-07-2023Dry eye syndrome is a multifactorial disease of the ocular surface characterised by loss and deterioration of tear film quality,...

The UB acquires the UTOX experimental toxicology platform from the Barcelona Science Park

28-06-2023The University of Barcelona, ​​through the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has acquired UTOX, the experimental toxicology platform of the Barcelona...

The University of Barcelona expands its collaboration with a British company to research drugs to treat cancer

26-06-2023The University of Barcelona (UB) has extended its collaboration agreement with the British company ValiRx Plc to investigate potential drugs...

“The most important thing for a spin-off is to have a committed team that can carry the project forward”

18-05-2023We interviewed Jose Conde, Head of the Business Creation Department at the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, to talk about how...

UOC and UB research into learning environments and smart classrooms becomes a spin-off

12-05-2023There is scientific evidence that the role of the surroundings in learning and in the physical and psychological well-being of...

Oniria Therapeutics closes €1.28 million seed funding round

11-05-2023Oniria Therapeutics has closed a seed funding round with a total of €1.28 million. This will allow the company to...

An agreement between the UB and Dimosi Lifescience & Medical enables research into proteins that will help in the prognosis and therapy of lung cancer

05-05-2023The University of Barcelona (UB) has reached an agreement with the Chinese company Dimosi Lifescience & Medical that enables research...

“Quantum computers will be able to do things that are inconceivable today”

17-04-2023We interviewed Victor Canivell, co-founder of Qilimanjaro, a joint spin-off of the University of Barcelona, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and...

Listening to music during pregnancy benefits the baby’s brain’s ability to encode speech sounds

13-04-2023When pregnant women sing to their babies or listen to music on loudspeakers during their pregnancy, babies are born with...

“We are trying to improve the sustainability of fish feed”

20-03-2023In recent years, the expansion of the aquaculture industry has led to a high demand for alternative ingredients to fishmeal...

New method for the detection of RNA viruses such as SARS-CoV-2

28-02-2023Experts from the University of Barcelona, the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona...

Discovery and prioritisation of treatments in patients with diseases of the nervous system

28-02-2023Brain tumours are the cause of 2% of all cancer deaths. In general, brain tumours have a high rate of...

3D passive UHF RFID tags

28-02-2023The University of Barcelona (UB), through its knowledge transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has awarded a €25,000 grant...

New metal-based anticancer agents for photodynamic therapy

28-02-2023The University of Barcelona (UB), through its knowledge transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has awarded a €25,000 grant...

Artificial intelligence tool to predict neurodevelopmental progress of infants with low birth weight

27-02-2023The University of Barcelona (UB), through its knowledge transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has awarded a €25,000 grant...

UB awards €100,000 to research projects selected in F2I call

27-02-2023The University of Barcelona, through its knowledge transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has awarded €100,000 in grants to...

Identifiquen un virus bacteriòfag que podria millorar els fertilitzants sense fer servir additius químics

21-02-2023Un estudi de la Fundació Bosch i Gimpera, dut a en col·laboració amb l’empresa Fertinagro Biotech, ha identificat i aïllat...

“Our predictive model helped prevent the saturation of hospitals in Catalonia”

20-02-2023Dr Catalina Bolancé and Dr Montserrat Guillén are professors in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-LLAVOR grant to develop artificial intelligence tool to detect infants at risk of neurodevelopmental delay

25-01-2023The University of Barcelona, through its technology and innovation transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has been awarded a...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-LLAVOR grant to design new compounds to fight resistance to colorectal cancer treatments

25-01-2023The University of Barcelona, through its technology and innovation transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has been awarded a...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-LLAVOR grant to design new drug targeting Alzheimer’s epigenetic target

25-01-2023Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia and affects over 800,000 people in Spain. The University of Barcelona, through...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-LLAVOR grant to develop new water remediation product using 3D printing

25-01-2023The University of Barcelona, through its technology and innovation transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has been awarded a...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-LLAVOR grant to design new anticancer agents for photodynamic therapy

25-01-2023The University of Barcelona, through its technology and innovation transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has been awarded a...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-LLAVOR grant to develop natural biostimulant to prevent overuse of pesticides in strawberry fields

25-01-2023Strawberries need more plant protection products than nearly any other fruit, which has a negative impact on farmland and increases...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-LLAVOR grant to develop organic biostimulant to improve legume quality and yield

25-01-2023The University of Barcelona, through its technology and innovation transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has been awarded a...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-LLAVOR grant to design new drug targeting two therapeutic targets in the treatment of Alzheimer’s

25-01-2023The University of Barcelona, through its technology and innovation transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has been awarded a...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-Producte grant for new, more affordable, faster-to-produce Hepatitis-A vaccine

25-01-2023The University of Barcelona, through its technology and innovation transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has been awarded a...

UB researchers receive AGAUR-Producte grant to develop new wastewater treatment system

25-01-2023The University of Barcelona, through its technology and innovation transfer office, the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has received from AGAUR...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-Producte grant to develop innovative dual-action drug for chronic pain

25-01-2023The University of Barcelona, through its technology and innovation transfer office the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, has been awarded a...

UB researchers awarded AGAUR-LLAVOR grant to develop prototype of rubber-based refrigerator

25-01-2023Refrigerators today use fluorinated gases, which contribute to the greenhouse effect responsible for climate change. The University of Barcelona, through...

Nimble Diagnostics closes a financing round of one million euros

17-01-2023NIMBLE Diagnostics, a spin-off from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia – BarcelonaTech (UPC)...

“The key in the advertising message of betting houses is giving consumers the illusion of control over the product”

13-01-2023Dr Hibai López González is a lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Science and Audiovisual Communication of the...

Gate2Brain receives €2.5 million in funding to develop a technology that facilitates the delivery of drugs to the brain

21-12-2022Gate2Brain, spin-off of the IRB Barcelona, ​​the UB and the SJD, receives 2.5 million euros in funding to develop a...

El programa «De la ciència al mercat» impulsa 25 projectes emprenedors

19-12-2022Després de tres mesos de formació, el 15 de desembre ha tingut lloc, a la Sala de Juntes del Rectorat...

The Antoni Caparrós Award honors an artificial intelligence project to improve colorectal cancer diagnosis

19-12-2022The project for the detection of pathologies of the intestinal tract using artificial intelligence, led by Dr. Santi Seguí, associate...

UB spin-off ColorSensing wins the Senén Vilaró Award for its smart packaging solution to reduce food waste

16-12-2022ColorSensing, a spin-off of the University of Barcelona (UB), has won the Senén Vilaró award from the Social Council of...

The Antoni Caparrós award recognizes the development of a generic anti-inflammatory drug for dogs

16-12-2022Dr. Josep Maria Suñé Negre, director of the research group of the Drug Development Service (SDM) of the University of...

Agustí Gutiérrez: “With the drone we can efficiently measure pollution from volatile chemical products at industrial plants”

16-12-2022We spoke with Dr Agustí Gutiérrez Gálvez, associate professor in the Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering of the University...

El Consell Social i la Fundació Bosch i Gimpera premien recerques de qualitat i casos de retorn del coneixement a la societat

14-12-2022El dijous 15 de desembre es va celebrar l’acte d’entrega dels Premis del Consell Social i de la Fundació Bosch i...

UB reaches agreement with Italian company to develop super-resolution microscope

13-12-2022The University of Barcelona has signed a licensing option with Italian company CrestOptics to develop a super-resolution microscope using structured...

A team from the UB and IBUB reveals the extraordinary plasticity of the glucocorticoid receptor

05-12-2022Glucocorticoids —such as cortisone— are among the most widely used anti-inflammatory drugs, and are used to treat asthma, psoriasis, organ...

El Science + Partners torna a reunir inversors i científics de la UB per impulsar els projectes dels investigadors

02-12-2022La Fundació Bosch i Gimpera va celebrar, a finals de novembre, la vuitena edició del Science + Partners, una jornada...

ColorSensing, spin-off of the UB, wins the “Sustainability Awards 2022”

17-11-2022The spin-off of the University of Barcelona (UB), ColorSensing, has won the Sustainability Awards 2022, which recognizes start-ups and innovations...

Joan López-Moliner: “Virtual reality design should factor in the symptoms it can cause”

24-10-2022Joan López-Moliner is a professor at the Faculty of Psychology, he specialises in visual perception and psychophysics and is the...

Els grups TECNIO de la UB participen del 1r Congrés TECNIO sobre el model de transferència de coneixement que necessita Catalunya

21-10-2022La Universitat de Girona ha acollit el 1r Congrés TECNIO 2022 en un acte al qual han assistit prop de...

Cockroaches vs Unicorns: neix un nou punt de trobada de les spin-offs de la Universitat de Barcelona

21-10-2022La Universitat de Barcelona ha reunit les spin-offs de la mateixa universitat en una jornada de treball amb la finalitat...

A UB research group furthers the customisation of the treatment for atopic dermatitis

13-10-2022Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that affects 15% of Spain’s adult population. The cutaneous immune system plays...

LERU’s Enterprise and Innovation Policy Group meeting at UB

07-10-2022On October 5 and 6, the University of Barcelona hosted the regular meeting of the Enterprise and Innovation Policy Group...

Virmedex, una nueva ‘spin-off’ de la UB y la UPC que crea entrenamientos virtuales basados en juegos

05-10-2022Virmedex Virtual Experiences, SL, una spin-off que desarrolla software ludificado para la formación especializada en el ámbito médico, da el...

Barcelona Deep Tech premia Qilimanjaro, una spin-off de la UB pionera en computadors quàntics

23-09-2022La spin-off de la Universitat de Barcelona Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech ha estat reconeguda com a millor start-up deep tech en...

Christian Griñán: “Factors such as stress make it easier to suffer from pathological ageing”

19-09-2022Environmental factors, parental lifestyle, and even parental trauma can affect subsequent generations. Epigenetics studies these small alterations in DNA. It...

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

25-07-2022Do you have an idea with a high transfer potential but you lack the resources to carry out a proof...

Josep Antoni Muñoz: “Climate change will condition the geological evolution of the Pyrenees”

18-07-2022Geology professor Josep Antoni Muñoz warns that in millions of years there will probably be no Pyrenees and no human...

Estudiants de Belles Arts de la UB dissenyaran el mobiliari de biblioteques xineses

11-07-2022Alumnes del grau en Disseny de la Universitat de Barcelona seran els encarregats de dissenyar els mobles de Mirplay per...

La Universitat de Barcelona participarà en el primer congrés Deep Tech per posicionar l’emprenedoria de base científica a la ciutat

05-07-2022Barcelona reunirà el proper 22 de setembre experts d’empreses punteres i solucions basades en la tecnologia i la sostenibilitat. Barcelona Deep...

In 2021, the University of Barcelona managed knowledge transfer projects worth over 24 million euros

04-07-2022In 2021, the University of Barcelona’s technology and knowledge transfer office, the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG), managed projects worth...

M. Dolors Pujol: “Researchers, pharma companies, and the public sector must go hand in hand to fight rare diseases”

21-06-2022Maria Dolors Pujol joined the University of Barcelona in 1991 and her research has always focused on cancer. She belongs...

The University of Barcelona updates its Industrial and Intellectual Property Regulations

08-06-2022Following a proposal by the Governing Council of the University of Barcelona, the Social Council has approved the University’s Industrial...

Researchers at the University of Barcelona create a game to carry out gamified interviews with children in foster care

01-06-2022ParlaJoc. Les cartes màgiques de l’acolliment familiar (ParlaJoc. The magic cards of foster care) is a game created to gather...

A digital microscope as small as a chip

23-05-2022Researchers Anna Vilà and Ángel Diéguez, faculty members at the UB’s Faculty of Physics, are leading a project to develop...

Mireia Farrús: “Technology can normalise a language like Catalan”

16-05-2022Mireia Farrús Cabeceran works in two fields that may not seem related at first glance, but which can potentially be...

Promising drug against childhood osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer with a poor prognosis

25-04-2022Childhood osteosarcoma is a type of cancer with a poor prognosis that develops in the cells that form the bones....

Meritxell Teixidó: “Many drugs do not reach the brain, and Gate2Brain’s technology helps to overcome this bottleneck”

20-04-2022Meritxell Teixidó is passionate about her work and her current project. Her 15 years of research on peptides –a type...

Potential molecular targeted therapy against pancreatic cancer

28-03-2022Pancreatic cancer is the most aggressive and least curable of all malignant tumors in humans. In 2020 it caused more...