For 18 years I’ve had the privilege of being an ICREA Research Professor at Barcelona’s University School of Pharmacy. It’s been a fantastic experience, always looking forward to the next discovery, the next piece of understanding, the next results… Now, when I look back, what I see is the wonderful people I had the pleasure […]
Read More →Between 22 and 26 May, Varbina and Xavi participated in the Allostery in Drug Discovery Awareness Event and Symposium, which took place in Strasbourg, France. Varbina also presented her research progress report at the ALLODD internal event and participated in the ALLODD PhD training.
Read More →Last week the members of the group presented their research at the Targeted Protein Degradation IRB Conference in Barcelona. Patricia, Alejandra, Roger and Andrea presented their recent results at the conference’s poster session. Jordi Juarez gave an amazing short talk on the cooperativity effects in the drug-dependent degradation of the Cereblon neosubstrate CK1 alpha. On the […]
Read More →Last week Patricia and Alejandra traveled to Oegstgeest, The Netherlands, to participate in the 17th EFMC Short Course on Medicinal Chemistry. Photos from the course and their experience – provided below
Read More →Our colleague Marina successfully defended her PhD thesis on Friday 24th February! The PhD thesis was carried out under the supervision of Xavi and it is entitled Technological developments in virtual screening for the discovery of small molecules with novel mechanisms of action. Congratulations for the amazing work Dr. Minarro!
Read More →Our colleague Alvaro just finished his research stay at the University of Edinburgh, in the group of Julien Michel. The research stay was focused on how to better plan and apply FEP calculations on our ‘ultra-large virtual screening’ approaches. Welcome back Alvaro, we hope you had a fulfilling experience!
Read More →For the last 3 months, Varbina was working at the lab of prof. Roman Zubarev at Karolinska Institutet (KI) conducting her first ALLODD secondment. She gained new knowledge and experience in HDX-MS and PISA assays, employing these experimental techniques for her Ph.D. project. Now she is already back at Barril’s lab, continuing her computational studies.
Read More →Last week Alvaro and Patricia participated in the 23rd European Symposium on Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship in Heidelberg, Germany and presented their work in the symposium’s poster session. Congratulations to Patricia for winning the poster prize at the Symposium!
Read More →Last month we said goodbye to some of our visiting researchers and today we are also saying farewell to Jonathan, our visiting Ph.D. student from the ALLODD project. Good luck to all of you in all your projects and activities! We hope to see you soon and work together again!
Read More →Last Friday Andrea and Carles Galdeano, organized and participated in the VIII Medicinal Chemistry Young Researcher Symposium. Congratulations on the amazing work and to Andrea for securing best poster communication award!
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