Professor of Palaeontology at the Complutense University of Madrid, director of the UCM-ISCIII Centre for Human Evolution and Behaviour, and codirector of the Sierra de Atapuerca archaeological sites. Worldwide renowned palaeontologist and excellent science popularizer. He is autor, among other books, of La...
The European ArrestAD FET-OPEN Horizon 2020 programme, which began at the start of the year and will end in December 2022, proposes a new vision for research on Alzheimer's disease and tests a new concept for its early diagnosis and treatment based on the role of...
Professor of International and Comparative Education and Professor of "International and Transcultural Studies" at Teachers College, of Columbia University in New York, Gita Steiner-Khamsin is one of the most renowned researchers in comparative education and educational policies globally.
Researchers from CEEISCAT (Centre for Epidemiological Studies on HIV/STI of Catalonia), with the participation of the UAB, coordinate the COBA-Cohort project. Its objective is to establish a European cohort of HIV-negative men who have sex with men to better understand HIV testing...
Stroke is the first cause of serious physical and intellectual disability and dependence, and the second cause of death in Spain, according to data from the Spanish Stroke Observatory. The observatory estimates that in the next decades this health problem will have a...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by the selective loss of neurons responsible for controlling the skeletal muscles. Neuregulin type 1 (NRG1) contributes to compensating this loss in general, but this mechanism is altered in patients with ALS. To restore this...
Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa, Tonelli served as spokesperson of the CMS experiment at CERN, one of the two large international scientific collaborations, together with ATLAS, searching for experimental proof of the existence of the Higgs boson.
The palaeontological site of Fumanya, in the Berguedà region, is well-known for containing numerous samples of fossilised dinosaur footprints. It is there that researchers from the UAB and the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology recently discovered some very peculiar...
Rumination, the regurgitation of recently ingested food into the mouth, can be a minor problem or lead to severe nutritional complications. Professor Fernando Azpiroz, from the UAB Department of Medicine and Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, and his team, have developed a new method...
Researchers Alaitz Zabala and Xavier Pons, from UAB Geography Department, and Joan Masó, from CREAF, participate in Next Generation GEOSS for Innovation Business (NextGEOSS) Horizon 2020 project, to develop a...
