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HIGHLIGHTS - 2020: Covid-19 drives innovation and makes healthcare investment spike

22.12.2020

Covid-19 pandemic has boosted cutting-edge research and innovation, reaching a record investment for companies in the BioRegion 

BDebate Brain Health for Life

Brain Health for Life raises awareness of most cutting-edge research in brain conditions

18.12.2020

One in four people in the world have a psychiatric or neurological condition. The course Brain Health for Life. Preventing Brain-Related Disability, promoted by EIT Health and organized by Biocat, the ”la Caixa” Foundation and Institut Guttmann, raised awareness of the latest studies on brain health with some of the top researchers in the world.

Sweden - Catalonia hubs : life science and technology for growth and social impact

Catalonia and Sweden: ecosystems on the rise and open to collaboration

17.12.2020

An online event on December 9 (“Sweden and Catalonia: minds and talent at work: the answer is in innovation and science”), organized jointly by the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to Nordic Countries and Biocat, captured the power of these two ecosystems and discussed new trends and work methods that have come out of the Covid-19 pandemic.

HIGHLIGHTS: Catalan researchers among the elite, advances in cancer and Alzheimer, and vibrant times for innovation in Barcelona

24.11.2020

Research and innovation sectors are protagonists in November, along with new rounds of funding and advances in the Catalan vaccine against COVID-19.

What impact will Covid-19 have on the transformation of healthcare systems?

09.11.2020

For the graduation ceremony of the d·HEALTH Barcelona health innovation program, three specialists at benchmark hospitals in Barcelona were invited to debate where healthcare should be headed in order to tackle this and future pandemics.

Seventh d·HEALTH Barcelona postgraduate program in healthcare innovation comes to an end with a virtual graduation day

30.10.2020

The seventh edition of d·HEALTH Barcelona postgraduate program ended yesterday with a virtual graduation actor, where the 9 fellows presented the projects that they have developed in the course of 9 months, and that seek to resolve clinical needs directly related or accentuated by Covid - 19.

Detall de la sessió Chasing Covid

Chasing Covid event brings together best research projects on SARS-CoV-2 promoted from Catalonia

27.10.2020

More than 200 people followed this event organized by Biocat online, which featured 20 projects and gave out two awards in the categories Beautiful Science and Game Changer.

Before and after Covid-19

Monday, 27 July, 2020 - 16:10

Current generations will remember 2020 as the year everything changed. People confined to their homes, industries at minimum production levels, hospitals overflowing, borders closed and, in general, a world put on pause by the whims of a virus that popped up almost overnight. The BioRegion wasn’t spared this abnormality, but as the healthcare and life sciences sector is strategic and essential to managing the pandemic, the revolution in this case brought out the best of the sector to fight the virus.

HIGHLIGHTS: Ona Therapeutics closes €30-million round, advance of some results from hydroxychloroquine study and Catalan Public Health Secretary steps down

23.06.2020

Covid-19 continues to be a trending topic, but research in other fields is regaining prominence

Biobanc. Autor: IGTP

Sabadell Assegurances grants €75,000 to 9 biobanks in Catalonia to further Covid-19 research

27.05.2020

The Department of Research and Innovation (DGRIS) and Biocat have established the criteria for the donations and provided advisory services.

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