Dr Albert Pol awarded with a Human Frontier Science Program research grant
Albert Pol, professor in the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Neuroscience and ICREA professor in the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), has received a grant from the prestigious foundation Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), as a member of an international team which involves four research groups. The project —coordinated by Steven P Gross, professor at the University of California (Irvine)— aims to study if our cells are capable of producing antibiotic proteins in order to identify them. This year, his group has been the only one in Spain that has received funding.
Dr Albert Pol participates in the project Mammalian lipid droplets: a central role in the organismal antibacterial response? Researchers propose that there are mechanisms of the innate immune system related to the accumulation of lipids in our cells that have not been discovered yet. The International group aims to discover and characterize these mechanisms.
Albert Pol, professor in the Department of Cell Biology, Immunology and Neuroscience and ICREA professor in the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), has received a grant from the prestigious foundation Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), as a member of an international team which involves four research groups. The project —coordinated by Steven P Gross, professor at the University of California (Irvine)— aims to study if our cells are capable of producing antibiotic proteins in order to identify them. This year, his group has been the only one in Spain that has received funding.
Dr Albert Pol participates in the project Mammalian lipid droplets: a central role in the organismal antibacterial response? Researchers propose that there are mechanisms of the innate immune system related to the accumulation of lipids in our cells that have not been discovered yet. The International group aims to discover and characterize these mechanisms.