Marta, Patrizia and Albert just published a new review on how mitochondria may act as a trojan horse in neurons. This is because, due to their bacterial origin, mitochondria have a high immunogenic potential. Indeed, mitochondria have been identified as an intracellular source of molecules that can elicit cellular responses to pathogens. The problem is […]
We are veeery happy to announce we have received a 3-year grant from the Spanish Research Agency, to study the molecular determinants of neuronal death in mitochondrial disease. We want to understand the role of the immune system in mitochondrial disease, both in animal models and in human samples, and thanks to this grant we […]
A science dissemination contest was organized at our research institute for Sant Jordi. Laura Sánchez won the first prize with this amazing masterpiece, which shows our lab and the things you can find in it! She rocks!
We have received a Proof of Concept UAB grant to transfer our mito-based technology to develop a diagnostic kit for bacteria resistance. The project, which is a collaboration with Hospital Parc Taulí, will consist of creating a fast and highly sensitive approach to detect antimicrobial resistance (AMR), based on checking the expression of different resistance […]
We have EXCELLENT news: Laura and Marta got both a Marie Curie fellowship! They are brilliant – this is an extremely competitive grant, especially this year that the European Commission received a record number of applications.There were more than 11,000 proposals, and only 1,630 were selected. Two of them are Laura’s and Marta’s! The […]
As the new year begins, we would like to look back to 2020 for a last minute. It was a tough year, but the scientific community got two amazing new doctors! Pati defended her PhD, ESTUDIO DEL PERFIL TRADUCCIONAL CITOSÓLICO Y MITOCONDRIAL DE POBLACIONES NEURONALES SUSCEPTIBLES A LA DEFICIENCIA DEL COMPLEJO I MITOCONDRIAL, in December, […]
Our research project ‘Modulation of mitochondrial retrograde signaling as a treatment for Leigh syndrome’ has been selected by La Marató de TV3 Foundation, within its 2019 edition, dedicated to rare diseases, to receive 300,000 euros of funding. It is a collaboration between Dr. Francesc Xavier Soriano’s lab and ours, in which we are going to […]
We have big good news at Quintanalab. Pati already deposited her PhD Eli was selected to be a Ramon y Cajal researcher Albert is now a tenured associate professor Everything was adequately celebrated with pizza last Friday: We are very happy! Cheeeers!
Albert and Eli participated in an international study published in Nature, which describes the processes occurring in the hippocampal neurons to create long-lasting memories. Long-term memory is a brain mechanism that allows us to encode and retain an almost unlimited amount of information throughout our lifetime. Key proteins that activate protein synthesis, such as the […]
We are very happy to announce we have been selected to receive a grant from La Caixa Foundation to investigate new therapies for mitochondrial disease! It has been a very competitive process, in which only 8 projects were selected out over 150 proposals, so we have some cava in the fridge! Our project will focus […]