This week, the UAB Research Park played host to the first meeting of the international project WiRE, which for the next two years will organise events aimed at changing the collective imagination of the role of women in resistance movements in Spain, Italy, Poland and Greece. The project is coordinated by Javier Rodrigo Sanchez, lecturer of the UAB Department of Modern and Early Modern History.
The 22nd edition of the conference will take place from 12 to 16 June 2023 at the Casa Convalescència and will serve to present and debate current trends and future directions in computational nanotechnology in the simulation of nanostructures, nanomaterials and nanodevices. An eminently interdisciplinary field involving areas such as electronics, engineering, physics, applied mathematics, chemistry and biology.
The fourth edition of the AI4ALL programme, launched by the UAB Parc de Recerca, the Computer Vision Centre, the UAB School of Engineering and the CSIC's Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, celebrated the end of the programme with a competition to chose the best project out of all those developed.
The company, located at the UAB Research Park, is part of this public-private initiative, led by the National Renewable Energy Centre (CENER) and formed by eight Spanish companies from a wide range of sectors.
Distinkt sprang from years of research by Dr. Àlex Julià-López, Dr. Claudio Roscini and CSIC Prof. Daniel Ruiz-Molina, from the Nanosfun group at the ICN2, and Prof. Jordi Hernando, from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. They have developed an invisible ink for anti-counterfeiting applications in official documents, banknotes, luxury goods, and more.
In an article published in the journal Antioxidants, researchers from the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau) and the UAB demonstrate in animal models that water enriched with hydrogen molecules (H2) improves the symptomatology of neuropathic pain and related emotional disturbances.
On 22 December at 4 p.m. the Eureka building will play host to the final event of the programme "Intel·ligència artificial aplicada a la indústria", launched by the UAB Research Park, the Computer Vision Centre, the UAB School of Engineering, and the CSIC Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.
Over the course of three years, the team coordinated by the UAB has co-created open-use digital cultural content that is now available for consultation and adaptation to the project's Memory Centre Platform.
These funds, coming from the Menkes International Association, will allow a research project to search for new biomarkers to establish administration and monitoring protocols for a new drug that could improve the lives of children suffering from this rare disease. The project is led by Mercè Capdevila, professor in the Department of Chemistry at the UAB.