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Manuel Pastor, group leader of the PharmacoInformatics group at the GRIB.
Scientific life  15.03.2011

Manuel Pastor: “I owe my scientific vocation to Spiderman”

The fruit fly was chosen to be the first multicellular organism to have its genome fully sequenced back in 2000 (Image by the Oregon State University at Flickr).
Public engagement  08.02.2011

Of flies and men

Sometimes DNA mutations cause subtle changes in how a protein works, but others lead to changes in the way a cell behaves (Image by Gerald, from Pixabay).
Public engagement  11.06.2010

SNPs: variation on a theme

Cristina Pujades is a scientist and researcher at the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University (DCEXS-UPF).
Scientific life  20.03.2010

Cristina Pujades (DCEXS-UPF): “We need to change the immovable vision of universities and research centres”

The brain: the right hemisphere records visual and spatial memories, such as drawings, while the left hemisphere registers verbal memory, for example wors or numbers. Image from Pixabay.
Public engagement  16.03.2010

Studying memory

Model of the antipsychotic clozapine interacting with a set of receptors potentially involved in its pharmacological effect.
Public engagement  04.11.2009

Computer-assisted drug design

Thomas Graf is a group leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), one of the centres at the PRBB.
Scientific life  23.05.2009

Thomas Graf (CRG): “To be a successful scientist one needs to play and have fun”

Mara Dierssen is the head of the cellular and systems neurobiology research group at the CRG.
Scientific life  01.01.2009

Mara Dierssen (CRG): “Being a scientist is a way of life”

Ferran Sanz is the director of the IMIM-UPF Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB).
Scientific life  18.09.2008

Ferran Sanz: “There should be no administrative frontiers on top of knowledge communities”

Drug development is a long and costly process. The clinical assays are the last part. Photo by freestocks.org on Unsplash
Research  14.04.2008

Clinical trials: the long path to the development of new drugs

Ion channels play an essential role in the synapses. Without them, the nervous system would not be able to send or receive signals (Picture by ZEISS Microscopy at Wikipedia).
Public engagement  13.03.2008

Crossing the channels

Scientific life  20.02.2008

Miguel Beato (CRG): “Science should help creating a more sceptic society”

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