Professor Ernest Giralt will give the opening lecture for the academic year 2017-2018
On Monday September 18, at 12 noon, the Paranimph of the Historical Building will hold the opening ceremony for the academic year 2017-2018. This year the opening lecture will be given by the professor from the Faculty of Chemistry Ernest Giralt, entitled “Obrint portes: com fer arribar nous fàrmacs al cervell”. The event will have the participation of the rector of the University of Barcelona, Joan Elias, the secretary for Universities and Research from the Department of Business and Knowledge of Generalitat de Ctalaunya, Arcadi Navarro, and the acting president of the Board of Trustees of the UB, Joan Corominas.
On Monday September 18, at 12 noon, the Paranimph of the Historical Building will hold the opening ceremony for the academic year 2017-2018. This year the opening lecture will be given by the professor from the Faculty of Chemistry Ernest Giralt, entitled “Obrint portes: com fer arribar nous fàrmacs al cervell”. The event will have the participation of the rector of the University of Barcelona, Joan Elias, the secretary for Universities and Research from the Department of Business and Knowledge of Generalitat de Ctalaunya, Arcadi Navarro, and the acting president of the Board of Trustees of the UB, Joan Corominas.
The ceremony will start with the speech by the secretary-general, Belén Noguera, who will give way to the opening film, a new presentation format including the personal testimonials of different representatives of the university community.
Afterwards, Giralt will give the opening lecture, in which he will introduce the main challenges for the drugs that have to act against diseases affecting the central nervous system and will talk about the strategies that are being studied in order to overcome those.
Ernest Giralt, professor from the Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry, is also researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Research (IRB Barcelona) where he leads the Laboratory of Design, Synthesis and Structure of Peptides and Proteins, and coordinates the Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Programme, one of the fifth programmes in which the research of IRB Barcelona is structured. In 2014, he obtained the Ciutat de Barcelona Award in the category of experimental sciences and technology, and was also awarded with the National Research Prize (2011), the highest scientific award given in Spain. Also, he received the Josef Rudinger Memorial Lecture (2014) and Max Bergmann Medal (2014), among other honours. Professor Giralt is also the co-founder of Iproteos, an IRB Barcelona spin-off created in 2011.
During the event, the medals of the University of Barcelona will be awarded to the teaching staff and administration and services staff who retired last academic year.
The ceremony will be broadcasted live in the channel UBtv.