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...

Awards of the UB Board of Trustees and Bosch i Gimpera Foundation to research and knowledge transfer

On December 13 the Aula Magna of the Historical Building of the UB held the ceremony for the Awards of the Board of Trustees and Bosch i Gimpera Foundation. The Antoni Caparrós Prize to the top project on knowledge transfer was awarded to the...

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...

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

The University of Barcelona takes part in an agreement with Aristo Pharma Iberia

The University of Barcelona is one of the seven universities in Spain participating in an agreement with the company Aristo Pharma Iberia to promote students’ professional skills in the sector of the pharmaceutical industry. Several institutional...

A team of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences takes part in the licence of a new technology of fluorescent dyes of biomedical interest

The use of fluorescent dyes –compounds joined by target molecules of biomedical interest- is opening new barriers in the techniques of bioimaging and biomedical data processing. A new article published in the journal Nature Protocols...

The University of Barcelona is listed among the top 50 worldwide universities in four disciplines

The University of Barcelona is among the top worldwide universities in 29 out of the 52 scientific areas analysed in the Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017. In fifteen of these disciplines, the University of Barcelona...

More than three hundred experts in the meeting of the Spanish Society of Plant Physiology in Barcelona

Plants’ response to climate change, plant biotechnology and genetic improvement of species with nutritional interest are some of the theme content of the 22nd Meeting of the Spanish Society of Plant Physiology (SEFV) and the XI Spanish Portuguese...

A longer cooking time and adding onion to ‘sofrito’ make it more beneficial for our health

Cooking tomato sofrito for a longer time –around an hour- and adding onion to this typical sauce of the Mediterranean diet, benefits the production of beneficial molecules for our health due their high antioxidant capacity, according to a...

Discovering the fauna and flora in ‘Pietà’, one of the masterpieces by the painter Bartolomé Bermejo

Around forty-three plants, three fungi (including two lichens) and twenty-two animals make up the inventory of animal and plant species identified by a team of members and collaborators of the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the...

Consumption of ‘Cannibal drug’ in adolescence has prejudicial effects on adulthood

Consumption of the synthetic drug MDPV –a powerful psychostimulant known as ‘cannibal drug’- during the adolescence, can increase vulnerability of cocaine addiction during adulthood, according to a study carried out with laboratory animals...

Ethnobotanical convergence, a new junction of tradition and modernity to promote research on plant biodiversity

Tradición, saber popular e investigación aplicada a la biodiversidad vegetal son las referencias del progreso del conocimiento en la etnobotánica, una ciencia que estudia la relación entre las poblaciones humanas y su entorno vegetal. Agrupar los...