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Marcel Swart, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Marcel Swart ICREA at Universitat de Girona, was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, as the certificate he received testifies! Congratulations Marcel!
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Start up power at ICREA!
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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Debate "Europe and the Middle East are condemned to fight"
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.
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ICREA Acadèmia awards 2015
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!
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Licia Verde and Raul Jimenez interviewed on U.S. TV
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!
