The UAB continues to lead the ranking of universities in Spain in number of patent applications submitted, according to the latest annual report issued by the European Patents Office (OEP), which includes all patents applied for in the year 2022. The University, which submitted a total of 15 applications through its Office of Assessment and Patents, is for the seventh consecutive edition, the public university in Spain with the greatest number of European patent applications. In the ranking of universities worldwide, the UAB ranks sixth.
The initiative, led by the Cetaqua Water Technology Centre, aims to foster a circular economy and represent a green energy and transport model for the metropolitan area of Barcelona by powering buses with biomethane obtained from sewage sludge. The GENOCOV research group at the UAB has worked together on this project with Aigües de Barcelona (Agbar) and Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB).
A project within the framework of the Complementary Plans of the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, coordinated by the UAB, will develop antibiotics to eliminate infections without producing side effects in patients and leaving beneficial bacteria intact.
The Microscopy Service of the UAB has made available to the European scientific community Cryo-TEM, LSCM, Profilometry, SEM and TEM techniques and services, as part of the European NEP project.
The UAB will be holding a new edition of its "Thesis in 4 minutes" competition, in which PhD students are asked to explain their research in a maximum of four minutes. Candidates may submit their applications until 12 noon on 27 March, and the competition will take place in front of a jury on 17 May.
A team of researchers develop a computational method to quantify the spread of antibiotic-resistant genes. The research, published in the journal Antibiotics, has been coordinated by Dr Jordi Barbé, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and Dr Ivan Erill, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), in the United States.
The UAB recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to recover a selection of over 500 carnival masquerade ball scores from the 19th century, which were stored unpublished for decades at the Arxiu de la Societat del Gran Teatre del Liceu and were somehow miraculously spared from the 1994 fire.
Researchers from the Department of Chemistry are leading a European project that aims to revolutionise the way rice husk ash, a growing environmental and health problem, is used. The team, involving up to eight organisations, will develop multifunctional compounds from the ash residues, which will also be environmentally friendly.
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