UAB researchers propose designing a vaccine based on complexes imitating the viral particles of SARS-CoV-2. The initiative forms part of the UAB's crowdfunding programme against COVID-19, which also includes a project by the FAS to offer summer camps for children in need and an action by the UAB Open Labs to manufacture protective material for healthcare personnel.
An international study by the Institute of Neuroscience, Emory University and Hospital Universitario La Paz shows that patients suffering from Lesch-Nyhan, a rare neurological disease, present biochemical alterations in skin cells, urine and cerebrospinal fluid. Published in the PNAS journal, the research will allow to advance in the study of this disease, which currently has no cure.
International experts including the involvement of the UAB have published a practical guide with recommendations and strategies for patients with eating disorders, their families and therapists, applied to the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19.
The UAB obtains maximum scores in 28 of the 37 indicators evaluated by the Knowledge and Development (CYD) Foundation, placing it at the top of the ranking which evaluates a total of 76 universities in Spain.
Joaquim Segalés, Professor of the Department of Animal Health and Anatomy at the UAB, and Júlia Vergara, both CReSA researchers, join the WHO working group. The aim is to find the most suitable animal models for developing treatments and vaccines for the disease.
Grassroots movements halt environmental degradation in up to 27% of environmental conflicts worldwide, according to a study by the ICTA-UAB. Activists are victims of violence in 18% of cases, and of murder in 13%, and figures increase when indigenous peoples are involved.
The UAB has decided to begin the academic year with a teaching modality that includes as many face-to-face lectures as the circumstances permit, while another part of teaching will be organised online for all matters which cannot be conducted on campus.
The University continues to work remotely in all areas in which on-site presence is not essential while the exceptional nature of this health crisis persists, and will allow some activities which cannot be conducted away from campus.
Want to discover the UAB like when schools come to visit us on campus... but without having to step outside and in just 15 minutes? If you come closer to the screen, you'll be able to smell the grass!
During an extraoordinary session, the UAB Governing Council passed two directions related to the end of the 2019/20 academic year under the framework of the COVID-19 health crisis.
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Communication Studies' student Ana Figueras and Physiotherapy student Javier Álvarez are volunteering in the COVID-19 support programe at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital. They talk about their experiences here.
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