Current events

The Dra. Cristina Andrés recognized in the ICREA Academy 2018

Dra. M. Cristina Andrés Lacueva, professor of the Department of Nutrition, Food and Gastronomy Sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences and the Institute for Research in Nutrition and Food Safety (INSA-UB), It has just been recognized...

A new molecule to improve treatment for type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

A new molecule –EPB-53-, could help fight type 2 diabetes and the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a new study led by the team of Manuel Vázquez-Carrera, from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences and the Institute of...

Antonio Viayna to represent the UB in the Coimbra Group 3-Minute Thesis

Antonio Viayna and Roser Pons will represent the University of Barcelona in the Coimbra Group 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition and in Thesis in 4 Minutes from the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRi). The UB final for these...

Physical exercise helps reducing brain deficit related to ageing

Physical exercise can help mitigate some brain deficits associated with age and ageing, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The new study guarantees the positive impact of physical exercise in the long run to delay...

Agreement between the University of Barcelona and Fedefarma to promote training in Pharmacy

The rector, Joan Elias, and the president of Fedefarma, Vicenç J. Calduch, signed an academic and institutional collaboration agreement to promote projects of common interest to promote training for the future graduates in Pharmacy and improve the...

First patient affected by a mutation in the nucleoside transporter SLC28 gene family

A research team has described the first case of a patient affected by dysfunctions in a nucleoside transporter of the SLC28 gene family, which brings a set of genes which were not related to human pathologies in the scientific bibliography so far....

Lecturer Rosa Maria Lamuela is awarded with the Danone Institute Prize to Scientific Career 2018

The lecturer Rosa Maria Lamuela Raventós, from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the UB, has been awarded the Danone Institute Prize to the Scientific Career Dr. Carles Martí Henneberg 2018, an award to honor the contribution to the...

Award from the Catalan Nutrition Center of the Institute for Catalan studies to researcher Ana Ceicilia Ho Palma’s doctoral thesis

The researcher Ana Cecilia Ho Palma, member of the Research Group Nitrogen-Obesity of the UB, has been awarded the CCNIEC-Fundació Eroski Prize in the new award edition given by the Catalan Nutrition Center of the Institute for Catalan Studies...

Researchers from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences develop the first triple treatment for tuberculosis in liquid form

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs and is among the top ten causes of death worldwide. Currently patients are treated with a combination of antibiotics in tablets, a problematic form of administration for children...

The projects of the professors Carmen Escolano and Manuel Vázquez have been selected to participate in the CaixaImpulse 2018 program

Four projects by the University of Barcelona, guided by Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, have been selected to take part in the program Caixa Impulse 2018, which offers an economic aid of about 50,000 and 100,000 euros to work on a valorisation and...

Researchers find reservatrol protection mechanism against Alzeimer’s cell alterations

Reservatrol, a natural antioxidant found in fruits such as grapes, boosts the protecting mechanisms that damage aberrant proteins, according to a research study that has been published in the journal Molecular Neurobiology –with the...

A UB study identifies a potential therapeutic target against insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes

UB researchers have identified a key molecule in insulin resistance, a condition that favours the development of type 2 diabetes. The study, published in the science journal Metabolism. Clinical and Experimental, shows how the enzyme BACE1 and its...

The University of Barcelona joins the Summer School on Medicines, an innovative training program in pharmacy

The tenth edition of the Summer School on Medicines (SSM10), which was held in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, in Ribeirão Preto (Brasil), was organized by the UB, Biocat, University of Montreal (Canada) and the Paul...

Interdisciplinary session on health challenges in the 21st century

Personalized medicine, dental health, obesity as a new outbreak and the access to drugs are some of the topics of the session, which aims to create an interdisciplinary forum to touch on some of the health challenges that pharmacy, medicine,...

Antoni Caparrós Prize: Progresses on Biocomputing to design new drugs

The Antoni Caparrós Prize was given this year to the close collaboration between UB researchers, led by Professor F. Javier Luque, from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, and the company Pharmacelera. This collaboration has allowed...

New factors involved in the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

A new study identified new factors involved in the development of the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the most common liver alteration among people. The study was published in the journal Molecular Metabolism, and is led by the team of the...

The journal ‘Pediatrics’ highlights an UB study on the Mediterranean diet and the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in children and adolescents

A study that relates/links the Mediterranean diet with a lower diagnose of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been highlighted by the journal Pediatrics as one of the top ten articles published in 2017. The study, the first...

Award to the best doctoral dissertations on nutrition to the students Violeta Moizé and Paola Quifer from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences

Violeta Moizé and Paola Quifer, students from the doctoral program on Food and Nutrition of the UB affiliated at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, were awarded the CCNIEC-EROSKI awards given by the Catalan Center for Nutrition of the...

Workshop: “Health in microbiota. Prebiotics and probiotics in animal and human nutrition”

This year, the third edition of the workshop, open to experts from different institutions, is focused on the scientific debate on microbiota, nutrition and health. More

Exhibition of mushrooms at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Science

The traditional exhibition of mushrooms at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Science reaches its 33rd edition. Like in other times, the university community is asked to bring species in a good state, and if possible, which can reflect the different...