The 2nd edition of the IBUB Early Career Day will take place on May 16. It will be a day where IBUB’s young researchers can present their research in various formats, along with two engaging plenary sessions, culminating in prizes for the best presentations! Date: May 16, 2025Schedule: 8:00h – 17:00hVenue: Aula Magna, Faculty of
A unique initiative to add value to chemical compounds from universities & research centers across Spain, enabling their evaluation in biological assays for drug discovery.
EU-OPENSCREEN is a not-for-profit European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) for chemical biology and early drug discovery. We support all stages of a chemical tool development project, including assay adaptation, high-throughput screening and chemical optimisation of the resulting ‘hit’ compounds. EU-OPENSCREEN operates an open-access database and a unique, common compound collection. Our main library, the European
Glioblastoma multiforme is a very aggressive type of brain cancer, with no effective therapy, so it is classified as an unmet medical need. A team from Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB), led by the professor of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, Carmen Escolano, has received a grant from the
We present the IBUB researchers working in the field of rare diseases, each within their area of expertise. The Chair of Rare Diseases and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer are organizing a conference on March 7 where all the current work on rare diseases will be presented.
According to the dimensional view of mental disorders, psychosis is expressed on a continuum ranging from mild subclinical traits and experiences present in the general population (schizotypy) to clinical symptoms in patients diagnosed with the disorder. Numerous studies have explored the genetic link between schizophrenia and its subclinical expressions, but the results have been inconsistent.
Insulin resistance precedes and predicts the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), a chronic disease that causes high morbidity and mortality worldwide. In affected people, insulin is unable to facilitate the uptake of glucose through tissues and organs, leading to an increase in blood glucose (chronic hyperglycaemia). Since skeletal muscle is the tissue that
#11F, International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we want to highlight the scientific talent of the women who drive research forward at #IBUB. They are not all of them, but they represent all of us. #11FdonesIBUB #11FdoneSTEMUB
From left to right, researchers Dora Koller and Marina Mitjans. The Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB) and University of Barcelona has participated in an international study that has found new evidence linking traumatic experiences and stressful events with endometriosis, a chronic systemic inflammatory disease characterized by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus. They show
Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol — a necessary hormone for foetal development — and this would affect the baby’s development from very early stages, as stated in a paper published in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology. The study suggests that a mother’s emotional wellbeing during pregnancy is
