Researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have developed an antibody fragment that reduces beta-amyloid peptide and tau protein levels, the ultimate cause of neuronal death in Alzheimer's, ameliorating the hallmarks of the disease at its most advanced stage.
With funding from the Government of Catalonia and the European Union, under the framework of the call "Comunitats Emergents RIS3CAT", a new project was recently launched under the name of GraphCAT, an initiative to create an ecosystem of research centres related with the study of graphene. The UAB will be involved in two of the project's initiatives: Graph-SIM and NeuroGraph.
Joint research conducted by the UAB has shown the ability to switch magnetizacion « on » and « off » using voltage in a new class of easy-to-fabricate materials containing nitrogen. These results, published in Nature Communications, may be used to reduce energy consumption in electronic technologies.
The UAB, under the direction of Professor Pilar Orero, coordinates Lead-me, a new European network to create a collaborative environment available to all fields interested in media accessibility and transversal issues, such as artificial intelligence and interactive technologies.
The 2020 edition of theTimes Higher Education World Reputation Rankings places the UAB between 151 and 175 in the list of top universities, both for its reputation in academics and in research.
Speaking two or more languages may be a probable protective factor against Alzheimer's and could contribute to delaying the onset of symptoms 4.5 years, according to a study published in the journal Revista de Neurología and conducted by a research team from the Hospital del Mar, the UAB and the Hospital Quirónsalud in Sabadell.
In his inaugural speech as rector of the UAB, Javier Lafuente called to the university community to be "innovative, disruptive and avant-garde" as part of an institution that "has gone from being a young university to becoming a great university".
ICTA-UAB researcher Esteve Corbera, environmental social scientist, has been granted a Senior Research Professor position, awarded by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA).
The research group directed by Professor Jordi Sort was awarded the 2020 Duran Farell Prize in Technological Research by the UPC's Social Council for an innovative data storage concept in electronic devices.
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Spain's new population census in 2021 will no longer be based on surveys, but rather on the administration's register and will be conducted with a novel methodology using Big Data. This is what Antonio Argüeso, Vice Director in Statistics at the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE), explained to us in his participation in a seminar organised by the CED-UAB.
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