Volunteers from the CRG are coming in everyday to the PRBB to run tests on the coronavirus.Volunteers from the CRG are coming in everyday to the PRBB to run tests on the coronavirus.
Community 25.05.2020

“You are never prepared for this” – an opinion article on the COVID-19 testing experience

Ritobrata Ghose is a PhD student at the CRG, and one of many volunteers at the centre who are part of the Covid-19 testing initiative. In this opinion article, he gives us his personal view on what being part of this project has meant.

The last "IMIM Seminars At Home" presented two of the Covid19 projects taking place at the IMIM. One focuses on drug development, the other relies on the immune response.
Research 22.05.2020

Drugs and antibodies: the strategies of two IMIM groups to block SARS-CoV-2

Two IMIM projects led by Jana Selent and Giuliana Magri are trying to block the new coronavirus Sars-Cov-2. We tell you how.

Ivermectin was recently shown to inhibit the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro at very high doses, but this effect has not yet been studied in vivo. The new study will investigate this question in a randomised trial. | Picture by ISGlobal.
Research 21.05.2020

New study to assess the efficacy of ivermectin against COVID-19

ISGlobal, together with the Clínica Universidad de Navarra, is launching a clinical trial to determine the efficacy of ivermectin to reduce the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 after 7 days.

The first 100% online CRG Scientific Coffee, about the citizen science project "Saca La Lengua", was a success.
Public engagement 20.05.2020

What can you do for science? The first online CRG Scientific Coffee

The scientific communicator Carlos Sierra tells us about the first scientific coffee of the CRG organized 100% online. The café reviewed the experience of the citizen science project “Saca la lengua”.

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