During the past few months, the Parc de Recerca and Doctoral School have paired up to offer the Validate your research entrepreneurial programme which aims to foster knowledge transfer among PhD students. Now the programme has come to an end, and on 15 July participants presented the projects they have been working on and which represent examples of how research can be carried on into the market and viable business models created from research projects.
The BrighFocus Foundation will provide $300,000 in funding to a project studying changes in the expression of genes found in a type of neuron vulnerable to Allzheimer's disease. The research, led by INc-UAB researchers Carles Saura and Arnaldo Parra, will also be analysing how these changes can cause alterations in neuronal circuits involved in the menory process.
Ana Sánchez, enrolled in the PhD programme in Biotechnology, represented the UAB and became the winner of the "4 Minute Thesis" competition, which was held on 22 June in Barcelona. A total of 125 PhD candidates from all across Catalonia participated in the event, which was organised by the Catalan Research and Innovation Foundation.
Most of the Spanish population is pessimistic about the future climate actions by the government and citizens after the impact of COVID-19. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by researchers at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), which seeks to determine how the COVID-19 crisis has affected society's attitude towards climate change.
A UAB study published in Science of the Total Enviroment certifies that the anchovies caught off the Catalan coast are in a good state of health and, in contrast to populations found in other regions, show no signs of containing significant amounts of Anisakis or other parasites that could pose a threat to human health.
A consortium of 19 European institutions, including the UAB, has launched the IDAlert project with the objective of improving the response capacity of Europe to pathogens capable of causing global epidemics, brought on by climate change. The project includes a multidisciplinary panel of experts in zoonosis, infectious disease epidemiology, social sciences, artificial intelligence, the environment, economy, and environmental and climate sciences.
The UAB Open Labs, Strategic Research Communities (CORES), Parc de Recerca and the EINA School of Art and Design have collaborated with the Molins de Rei City Council to define the uses and services of the new Technology Innovation Centre, which will begin to operate in 2023.
The UAB has begun a new crowdfunding campaign to advance in the research being conducted on Linya, the woman from Noguera, the Homo sapiens discovered by the research team from the Centre for Archaeological Heritage Studies (CEPArq) at the Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Les Avellanes, Lleida) in 2020.
Coordinated by the UAB, the European project which is now finalising has strengthened collaborations across borders and developed a plan to monitor bear (Ursus arctos) and wolf (Canis lupus) populations in the French, Spanish and Andorran regions of the Pyrenees.
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