Marcel Swart ICREA at Universitat de Girona, was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, as the certificate he received testifies! Congratulations Marcel!
Two ICREA spin offs obtain funding from H2020 SME support instrument. The entrepreneurs Laura Soucek (ICREA at VHIO) and Roger Gomis (ICREA at IRB) have both secured a bunch of money from H2020 SME instrument this week. Their two companies are attacking different aspects of cancer tumors. Inbiomotion, Roger's company is testing a platform to prevent breast cancer from invading bone marrow. Peptomyc, Laura's company, has invented an innovative mollecule that blocks one of the most critical oncogenes, applicable to a wide array of different tumors.
Congratulations Laura and Roger, and keep up the good work!
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Miguel A. González Ballester, ICREA at the UPF, is one of the organisers of a series of debates involving alumni and external people of the Oxford University Alumni Society covering different topics (much like the ICREA Colloquia). The next one will be on February the 18th at the CIDOB Foundation. Further information can be found at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/debate-europe-and-the-middle-east-are-condemned-to-fight-tickets-20987893354.
The names of the 30 awardees of the 2015 call are out. This call attracted 190 candidates, from all areas of knowledge. ICREA Acadèmia is a resarch intensification scheme open to all professors working in Catalan public universities. According to all indicators, it increases international visibility and collaborations, and boosts universities' research impact.
As customary, we will have a ceremony later in the year to deliver the awards. Many congratulations to all awardees and their universities!
icrea_academia_2015.pdf Licia Verde Raúl Jiménez (both ICREAs at ICC - UB) were interviewed by Yvonne Stapp for Science for the Public, a leading science show in American Public Television (PBS) in the US. These one-hour long interviews feature fascinating accounts of their vision on the universe, its origins and the relation between dark matter, dark energy and high energy physics. You can watch the interviews here:
http://www.scienceforthepublic.org/cosmos/probing-the-large-scale-universe
http://www.scienceforthepublic.org/cosmos/gamma-ray-bursts
enjoy!
A total of eight Proof of Concept grants have been awarded in Catalonia by the European Research Council, five of which to ICREA Research Professors, and two more to ICREA Acadèmia awardees.
Congratulations to all awardees and best of luck with their research! Here's the complete list, with a few details. More information is available at the Host Institutions links and at the ERC PoC site here.
José Ramón Galán-Mascarós (ICREA at ICIQ): U-SPEC, a novel platform for user-friendly spectroscopy at very low temperatures and under strong magnetic fields.
Frank Koppens (ICREA at ICFO): GRAPHEALTH, hybrid quantum dot and graphene wearable sensor for systemic hemodynamics and hydration monitoring.
Ruben Martín (again, ICREA at ICIQ): OLE-DIOX, catalytic reductive carboxylation of unactivated olefins with carbon dioxide
Samuel Sanchez (ICREA at IBEC): MICROCLEANERS, active microcleaners for water remediation
Mel Slater (ICREA at UB): PSI, personified self interaction
Miquel Costas (UdG): Biologically inspired chiral oxidation catalysts for commercial applications of fine chemistry.
Xavi Ribas (again at UdG): CatalApp, Copper Catalysis Applications.
PoC (Proof of Concept) grants are funds to explore the possibilities of application of fundamental discoveries made with ERC research grants. Hence, only resarchers holding a previous ERC grant can apply to these.
Do we sound proud? Of course we are!
