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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...

The FBG becomes the new member of the Catalan Efficient Energy Cluster

17-01-2020The FBG has joined the Catalan Efficient Energy Cluster (CEEC), an entity that gathers organisations that offer, promote or develop...

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...

Josep M. Grinyó «We want to establish our protein as a new therapy for autoimmune diseases»

21-10-2019The team led by Dr. Grinyó, a researcher of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of...

Neurekalab, a spin-off of the UB and the UVic-UCC, is launched to improve learning and reduce school failure

09-10-2019Attention, reading and writing, working memory, numerical processing, and calculation are key cognitive processes that control learning. Low performance in...

CaixaImpulse funds two projects assessed by the FBG

25-09-2019Two projects of the University of Barcelona (UB) assessed by the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG) have been selected to...

Antonio Juárez «We still use the same antibiotics as decades ago, and this has helped bacteria become resistant»

18-09-2019Dr. Antonio Juárez signed his first knowledge transfer contract thirty years ago, and since then he has continued to collaborate...

Get ready, the F2I is back with € 130,000 to foster innovation at the UB!

29-08-2019Do you have an idea with a high transfer potential but you lack the resources to carry out a proof...

The FBG presents the 2018 results with 789 projects managed for 32.67 M€

31-07-2019The Bosch i Gimpera Foundation has published the 2018 activity report  commemorating the 35 years being an instrument of relationship...

Noemí Pereda «Bullying is the least of the problems. Most forms of violence against children occur at the hands of an adult»

15-07-2019The Child and Adolescent Victimization Research Group (GReVIA) of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Barcelona fights to...

Second Open Innovation Forum hosts 50 meetings of companies and research organizations

12-07-2019Approximately twenty company representatives and some thirty researchers participated in the second Open Innovation Forum 2019, a program organized by Biocat that...

Improving the quality of life of patients with ALS through the joint collaboration of Podiatrists and Neurologists from the UB

21-06-2019It is estimated that around four thousand people in Spain suffer from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease with...

Javier Iglesias «Our smart light makes indoor areas healthier for people»

17-06-2019Since January, Javier Iglesias has been the new CEO of Enlighting Technologies (ET), a spin-off of the University of Barcelona...

Bluephage, a spin-off of the UB, receives 250,000 euros in aid and already exceeds one million euros in capital contributions

13-06-2019The biotechnology company Bluephage has received €250,000 in NEOTEC aid for business projects requiring the use of technologies or know-how...

Enlighting Technologies increases its capital by 450,000 euros for its smart lighting system

12-06-2019People spend 90% of their time under artificial light that affects their biorhythms, mood and activity levels. With the technology...

Andreu Farran «Food products are improving, but it all depends on consumer demands»

23-05-2019Andreu Farran, a biologist who specializes in nutrition, is part of the Applied Nutrition team of the Physical Activity and...

Researchers from the UB and IDIBELL are promoting a fund-raising campaign to design personalised medicine against GRINopathies

17-05-2019Disorders relating to GRIN gene mutations, known as GRINopathies, are an ultra-rare neuropaediatric disease, with only 500 cases diagnosed worldwide....

UB, the most innovative university in Spain

14-05-2019The University of Barcelona is once more, for its fourth year in a row, the most innovative university in Spain....

The Bosch i Gimpera Foundation participates in five clusters in Catalonia

02-05-2019Encouraging contacts between researchers and research groups at the University of Barcelona and companies and other players in the same...

Mel Solé «Consumers today are more diverse, better informed, more demanding, and less loyal»

23-04-2019Dr. Mel Solé, from the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona, is the principal investigator of...

New Center Focuses on Research, Education, and Industry Applicability of Mediterranean Dietary Principles

08-04-2019The Torribera Mediterranean Center (TMC), a joint project of the University of Barcelona and The Culinary Institute of America, recently...

New method to reduce alcohol volume and content in wine

05-04-2019Climate change is leading to more dry and hot summers, a phenomenon that favours an early ripening of grapes and...

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

04-04-2019The awards of the Social Council of the University of Barcelona and the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation for the transfer...

Carles Escera «The quality with which sound information reaches a baby’s brain can predict its future reading ability»

01-04-2019Dr. Carles Escera is the principal investigator of Brainlab, which belongs to the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of...

Agreement between Virtual Bodyworks and the Los Madroños Hospital to apply an immersive virtual reality technology to the rehabilitation of brain damage

01-04-2019Virtual Bodyworks, a spin-off of the University of Barcelona (UB), the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) and...

The University of Barcelona is the leading Spanish university in terms of European patent applications

18-03-2019According to the report of the European Patent Office (EPO) published this week, the UB is the leading Spanish university...

The FBG awards €100,000 for the valorisation of four UB research projects

11-03-2019On 5 March, the FBG awarded the Valorisation Fund (FVal) grants of the Fund for the Promotion of Innovation (F2I)....

A project on artificial intelligence enables the improvement of colorectal cancer screening

04-03-2019The project Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Diagnosis by AI, led by researchers of the University of Barcelona, was among the five...

EUDONORGAN project, led by the UB, the FBG and the DTI, at the European Parliament

25-02-2019More than 120 professionals from the field of health and other experts from thirty-three countries worldwide have taken part in...

GSK shows interest in eight UB research projects for its DPAc programme

19-02-2019Following the presentation of the Discovery Partnership with Academia (DPAc) programme, attended by some fifty researchers of the University of...

Eva Estébanez «If we can prevent androgen receptor dimerization, we can stop the progression of prostate cancer»

19-02-2019Dr. Eva Estébanez leads a research project that has detected a new family of compounds that paves the way for...

‘Software Fallo 0′, a UB project to create an error-free software system

12-02-2019All software contains bugs; even the software that controls the aeronautical or military industry has bugs in its final version....

TERMOVOLCAN, a project to promote the exploration of geothermal resources in the Canary Islands

05-02-2019The volcanic activity of the Canary Islands, with fourteen historic eruptions in the last 500 years, makes it the only...

A genetic study managed by the FBG reveals the success of the reintroduction program of the green turtle in Cayman Islands

22-01-2019The reintroduction program for the green turtle in the Cayman Islands was crucial in re-establishing the nesting population of this...