The 2025 Health Research Call by the La Caixa Foundation has selected 34 cutting-edge biomedical research projects from a total of 714 submitted proposals. These projects will be led by 25 Spanish research centers, universities, and hospitals, and 9 Portuguese institutions. The total funding of the program is 26 million euros. The Quintanalab will carry […]
Last week, the Institut de Neurociències celebrated its Open Doors Day, and we had the pleasure of participating. Aniol, Marcos (Quintanalab), Maria, and Victòria (Puig2lab) gave tours of our facilities and shared insights about the research we conduct. Students visited from the Institut Leonardo da Vinci (Sant Cugat), the Institut Júlia Minguell (Badalona), and the […]
We are very happy to share with you that the lab has a new publication! Laura Sánchez-Benito’s PhD project has resulted in an article in which, for the first time, they identified the mechanism behind epilepsy in mitochondrial diseases, a potentially fatal symptom of this kind of disorders. Since epileptic crises involve excessive neural activation, […]
Last Friday, the Mitochondrial Neuropathology research team took a well-deserved break from the lab and headed to Sabadell for our traditional calçotada—and what a fantastic day it was! After two weeks of non-stop rain, the sun finally made an appearance, just in time for us to enjoy the outdoors. The weather couldn’t have been better, […]
On January 9th and 10th, 2025, Seville hosted the inaugural MITONED International Workshop at the Salón de Actos del Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS). This event brought together leading researchers in the field of mitochondrial diseases, united by the MITONED network. The workshop featured keynote presentations from renowned international scientists. Among them, Elisenda delivered […]
We are thrilled to announce that our latest study, led by Emma and coordinated by Albert, has been published in Nature Communications! In the study, our research team explored the therapeutic potential of CBD, a non-psychoactive compound derived from cannabis, as a treatment for Leigh Syndrome. As you may know, Leigh Syndrome is a severe […]
The Societat Catalana de Biologia celebrated the 13th edition of their Neurobiology symposium, this week, at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. Marcos, Gunter, Armin and Maria Helena presented their research projects (excellent talks!), and Mònica won the best poster award. Mònica’s poster was about the research they are carrying out in trying to understand the role […]
The Anoche tuve un sueño magazine organizes every year the Optimistas Comprometidos award, in which, in different areas, the work of a person or organization is recognized. Last May 7, in the auditorium of the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, the X edition of the award was held and Albert was awarded in the scientific category for […]
We just published a paper in PNAS in which we describe in mice which specific neurons transmit the signals that cause this discomfort. In this article, which is a collaboration with the University of Washington, we analyzed the cells of the vestibular nuclei of mice subjected to short and repeated rounds of spinning, and demonstrated […]
The Agencia Estatal de Investigación announced the provisional list of researchers awarded with a Ramon y Cajal contract and we are extremely happy as Laura Cutando has been selected. The purpose of this grant is to promote the incorporation of researchers with an outstanding career into research organizations, so that they acquire the skills that […]