Sabadell Assegurances has donated €75,000 to help fund the technological infrastructure needed to do scientific research to find a Covid-19 vaccine. The donation will allow 9 Catalan biobanks to get equipment like special freezers or liquid nitrogen tanks, to store samples used to research the …

The first STEM Women’s Congress was held in Barcelona this November. The aim of this congress is to secure a gender balance in the scientific environment by encouraging and supporting women to develop their professional careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Dr. Elisabet Vilella, …

The provincial entity finances with 279,300 € the incorporation of this personnel. Ten researchers in training at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Lleida (IRBLleida) benefit for one year of the call for grants for the Promotion of Health Research, which finances with the € …

The “Ageing Imagenome” project ended the first phase of recruitment and data collection, with the exhaustive study of 1.030 volunteers. The analysis of this information will allow to obtain more than 10 million data in order to identify aging patterns. This morning, the project presentation …

The Infection and Immunity (INIM) research group at the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV) have participated on an AIDS Research Network (RETICS-RIS) of the Carlos III Institute of Health that studied Elite Controllers (EC). Some HIV patients have the ability to control the virus …

Prof. Joan Vendrell Ortega has been elected as the new president of the Catalan Association of Diabetes during the XV congress meeting earlier March this year. Prof. Vendrell, the Director of the Endocrinology Department at the University Hospital Joan XXIII, and the director of the …

The “Sopar dels miralls” (The Mirror Dinner in English) will bring together a group of prominent people in the fields of culture, science, journalism, sports, business and politics, and will allow their followers to share the table with them on this charity evening. The dinner …