Albert received the committed optimist in science award

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 […]

Albert received an ICREA Academia award

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 […]

AEPMI’s meeting

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 […]

NEW ARTICLE!

Emma is the first author of an article published in Nature Communications about the existing differences among neurons expressing dopamine D2 receptors in the striatum. It is an international collaboration in which Albert and Eli also participated. The striatum is a brain region involved in motor control, habit formation, decision-making, motivation and reinforcement, among other […]

MitoTreat won the 9th edition of the Generació d’Idees Program!

Generació d’Idees is a program organized by Parc de Recerca UAB, to promote entrepreneurship among researchers. Communications, mental health, environment… They focus on a different topic in each edition, and this time, it was the turn of biotechnology. During 17 sessions, researchers were given the tools to develop innovative solutions in the biotechnology field. They […]

Quintanalab-Calçotada 2019

The Quintanalab-Calçotada 2019 took place on a super sunny April day in El Priorat de Banyeres, a tiny village near Vilafranca. Thanks, Andrea, for offering the house! It is already a tradition that the whole group gathers together one day to eat calçots with salsa romesco and have fun. (Please, note Albert’s Salt Bae position…) […]

Swiss Light-sheet Microscopy Workshop

Last 24th and 25th of April, Andrea, Pablo, Elisenda and Albert went to Zurich to attend the Swiss Light-sheet Microscopy Workshop.     It was a two days meeting in which researchers from all over the world gathered together to share the observational techniques they are using. Users and developers discussed newest advances in the […]

We will receive an ERC Proof of Concept Grant!

The European Research Council (ERC) has selected us for a Proof of Concept grant to develop a new research line focused on a novel approach to figh antibiotic resistances: the ResisTEST. This project, derived from the knowledge and experience gathered with NEUROMITO, has been chosen for its innovation potential, its significant impact and its quality, […]

It’s all about energy!

Here it is the talk Albert gave for the first Federative Day for Neuroscience in Strasbourg, organized by Doctoneuro, on April 20th, 2018 – Nice summary about what mitochondrial diseases are and what work we do in the lab!