The study of a gene therapy for the treatment of spastic paraplegia type 52 (SPG52) being carried out by researchers at the UAB has so far raised €263,000 through a crowdfunding project of the University and the association La lucha de Abril. The research is currently analysing the therapeutic effects of the treatment on mouse models of the disease and on neurons obtained from the stem cells of Abril, a Spanish girl affected by the disease. The association has so far made four donations of €50,000, the last of which was recently given to the project.
This week, the UAB Research Park played host to the first meeting of the international project WiRE, which for the next two years will organise events aimed at changing the collective imagination of the role of women in resistance movements in Spain, Italy, Poland and Greece. The project is coordinated by Javier Rodrigo Sanchez, lecturer of the UAB Department of Modern and Early Modern History.
The 22nd edition of the conference will take place from 12 to 16 June 2023 at the Casa Convalescència and will serve to present and debate current trends and future directions in computational nanotechnology in the simulation of nanostructures, nanomaterials and nanodevices. An eminently interdisciplinary field involving areas such as electronics, engineering, physics, applied mathematics, chemistry and biology.
The fourth edition of the AI4ALL programme, launched by the UAB Parc de Recerca, the Computer Vision Centre, the UAB School of Engineering and the CSIC's Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, celebrated the end of the programme with a competition to chose the best project out of all those developed.
The company, located at the UAB Research Park, is part of this public-private initiative, led by the National Renewable Energy Centre (CENER) and formed by eight Spanish companies from a wide range of sectors.
Distinkt sprang from years of research by Dr. Àlex Julià-López, Dr. Claudio Roscini and CSIC Prof. Daniel Ruiz-Molina, from the Nanosfun group at the ICN2, and Prof. Jordi Hernando, from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. They have developed an invisible ink for anti-counterfeiting applications in official documents, banknotes, luxury goods, and more.
In an article published in the journal Antioxidants, researchers from the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau) and the UAB demonstrate in animal models that water enriched with hydrogen molecules (H2) improves the symptomatology of neuropathic pain and related emotional disturbances.
Over the course of three years, the team coordinated by the UAB has co-created open-use digital cultural content that is now available for consultation and adaptation to the project's Memory Centre Platform.
