Emma, Albert and Eli filed the application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which has recently designated this compound as an orphan drug for the treatment of a rare disease. To facilitate the development and authorization of drugs for rare diseases, regulatory agencies can give certain medicines the designation of orphan drugs, which gives them […]
One more time, we celebrated a calçotada at Andrea’s grandparents’ house, in a small village of El Penedès. Old, new, and who knows if future (!) generations of Quintanalab members were reunited for the best of the reasons: eating calçots until our bodies complained. Although it was a team game, Alex was the main cheff, […]
Last Friday, within the Brain Awareness Week, Laura Cutando gave a talk to 9-year-old students from Escola Enric Grau i Fontseré, in Flix. It was the end of a series of workshops, organized by the INc-UAB communications department and the educational cooperative Eduxarxa, in which students discovered the nervous system. In the talk, Laura told […]
Albert has been awarded with an ICREA Academia! We are extremely happy for him! The recognition, which is awarded for five years, promotes and rewards the research excellence of professors at public universities in Catalonia. The program contributes to intensifying the research carried out by researchers who are in an active and expansive stage of […]
February the 23rd was Andrea’s last day in the lab! This was very sad news for us because she will be sorely missed. However, we are also excited for her new adventures and hope all the best for her working at Hospital de Barcelona!
Elisenda is now leading this project funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, wich was first coordinated by our beloved professor Elena Galea. Here, using in silico technologies we will look for treatments to delay neurodegeneration through protecting astrocytes.
We have great news! The European Research Council awarded Albert with a Proof of Concept grant to work on ResisCHIP, a kit we are developing to quickly detect antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR causes over 700.000 deaths each year and is associated to reduced quality of life, increased hospitalization periods and medical costs. Hence, developing fast […]
Last Tuesday, some members of the ENACH Association visited us. (From left to the right: ENACH Association members: Tony Moreno and Naza Martínez with their daugthers, Inés and María, together with Antonio López; and, representing INc-UAB: Dr. Jesús Giraldo (INc-UAB Director) Albert and Eli) We are going to start a new research project, promoted by […]
Albert was in Madrid last Saturday to participate in the Asociación de enfermos de patologías mitocondriales’s meeting, at Fundación Once. It was a very constructive and informative day, where experts in different fields related to mitochondrial disease presented their updates on research, patient registry and therapies. The conferences offered a big picture of where we […]
After all these years of having Pati around, she left the lab 🙁 🙁 🙁 We are very sad for ourselves, but also very happy for her, as she started a new life as a project manager at IDIBELL, and we are sure she will enjoy it and do an excellent job. We celebrated a […]