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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...

New spin off company ONIRIA Therapeutics founded by VHIO, UB and ICREA, with the support of “la Caixa”, AECC and ISCIII, sets out to counteract cancer resistance & combat disease relapse

24-03-2022The Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Universidad de Barcelona (UB), and the ICREA Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced...

Neus Agell: «We are working on inhibiting a protein that causes pancreatic cells to generate tumors»

21-03-2022Dr. Neus Agell and her team have just received €25,000 as a Proof of Concept (PoC) grant from the Fund...

Nimble Diagnostics, a new UB, IGTP and UPC spin-off, is founded to monitor stents using microwave technology

15-03-2022Stents are the most commonly implanted medical devices in the world due to their ability to restore the correct flow...

Nanoparticles to improve disinfection in endodontics

07-03-2022Endodontic therapy, also known as root canal treatment, is a very common dental treatment in which the dental pulp is...

Developed a genetic test for personalized HER2+ breast cancer treatments. Will be marketed by the spin-off Reveal Genomics.

26-01-2022Reveal Genomics, spin-off of the University of Barcelona, ​​the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology,...

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....