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 […]
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 […]