Juan Borrego and Marc Codina, students at the School of Engineering, received an award of excellence in a world competition of applications for FPGA reconfigurable devices with a system that automatically recognises mushrooms through photos taken with a mobile device.
Through Crowdfunding UAB, individuals, entities, organisations and businesses can collaborate with the university in research pojects and support programmes.
Cellupack was chosen as the most innovative project of the Generating Ideas Programme on Smart Food. Ot proposes the use of cellulose-based materials as substitutes for a variety of single-use plastic packagings. The material is biodegradable, soluble and with a minimum ecological footprint.
On Monday 25 November at 12 noon, the UAB will inaugurate its new network of open innovation labs. The event, which will be presided by Rector Margarita Arboix, will include a visit to the Design Lab at the School of Engineering and to the Digital Lab at the Journals Hall of the Humanities Library.
NeuroHeal Biomedicals will advance the development of a new drug to restore peripheral nerve well function. The objective of the company is to initiate clinical trials in humans within two years.
Researchers from the CIBER-BBN and the UAB have designed non-toxic drug-release granules to be administered locally and with prolonged therapeutic effects The results pave the way for a new therapeutic technology based on bacterial products which have not been clinically explored yet.
On Monday 25 November at 12 noon, the UAB will inaugurate its new network of open innovation labs. The event, which will be presided by Rector Margarita Arboix, will include a visit to the Design Lab at the School of Engineering and to the Digital Lab at the Journals Hall of the Humanities Library.
The Rectorat building and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the UAB will play host to the ClearFarm project kickoff meeting, a project including 14 partners from six different countries to improve the welfare of farm animals, mainly pigs and dairy cows.
The reactor was put into motion this week and will be producing biopesticides under the framework of the European Decisive. The experimental facilities will use organic waste to produce biopesticides for farm use.