{"id":24225,"date":"2026-02-02T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/?p=24225"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:27:26","slug":"two-ub-spin-offs-recognized-with-scientific-and-technological-innovation-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/news\/two-ub-spin-offs-recognized-with-scientific-and-technological-innovation-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Two UB spin-offs recognized with scientific and technological innovation awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2000\" data-end=\"2194\">Two spin-offs from the <strong data-start=\"2023\" data-end=\"2055\">University of Barcelona (UB)<\/strong> have recently been recognized for their innovative activity in the fields of science and technology.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2196\" data-end=\"2708\">On the one hand, <strong data-start=\"2213\" data-end=\"2268\"><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/virmedex.com\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"2215\" data-end=\"2266\">Virmedex Virutal Experience<\/a><\/strong>, a spin-off of the UB and the UPC, has been awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcelona.cat\/infobarcelona\/ca\/anunciats-els-guanyadors-dels-premis-ciutat-de-barcelona-2025_1597026.html\"><strong data-start=\"2325\" data-end=\"2386\">2025 City of Barcelona Award<\/strong><\/a> in the category of Applied Sciences and Technology, an honor that highlights applied research and knowledge transfer with social impact. This spin-off is dedicated to transforming the training of healthcare professionals through immersive video games and gamified virtual simulators.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2710\" data-end=\"3166\">On the other hand, <strong data-start=\"2729\" data-end=\"2773\"><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/organaid.eu\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"2731\" data-end=\"2771\">OrganAID Holdings<\/a><\/strong>, a spin-off of the UB and the UPF, has been one of the winning companies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chemopharmaceuticals.com\/new\/chemostart-anuncia-los-ganadores-de-su-ix-edicion-arjuna-therapeutics-y-organaid\/\"><strong data-start=\"2854\" data-end=\"2934\">9th edition of the ChemoStart Awards<\/strong><\/a>, an initiative that promotes emerging projects in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields. The biotech company develops a drug testing platform in organoids using artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3168\" data-end=\"3363\">These recognitions strengthen the role of the University of Barcelona\u2019s spin-offs as drivers of innovation and technology transfer in the service of society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two spin-offs from the University of Barcelona (UB) have recently been recognized for their innovative activity in the fields of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24228,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225\/revisions\/24228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}