Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/apuntes-cientificos-desde-el-mit/2010/5/25/repoquer-ases-cientificos [more info]

Um grupo de investigadores do Departamento de Biologia da Universidade de Aveiro e do Laboratório Associado CESAM integra o consórcio internacional MEPHITIS, cujo objectivo é desenvolver novas drogas contra o parasita da Malária. http://formacao-portugal.universiablogs.net/2010/03/30/universidade-de-aveiro-na-investigacao-de-novas-terapeuticas-contra-a-malaria/ [more info]

The parasite to the mosquito and the mosquito to the individual. This would be broadly the process of transmission of one of the most serious diseases affecting the third-world countries, la malaria. Feared by everyone and with few effective treatments, malaria causes each year about one million deaths, in most cases children between 1 and 5 years old. Lluís Ribas, ICREA researcher and head of Genetic Translation Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, will explain how the project Mephitis, which he coordinates and involving seven research groups worldwide, may shorten the path to reach the efficient development of new antimalarial drugs. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcjaqx_una-luz-de-esperanza-en-la-lucha-co_tech [more info]

Setting the technical goals to disarm the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum was the challenging focus of the kick-off meeting of the Mephitis project, held at IRB Barcelona on March 30-31. [more info]

The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has been chosen by the European Commission (EC) to co-ordinate two European health research projects, as part of the second call of the VII Framework Programme. This concession makes IRB Barcelona a leader in European projects in Spain, together with the Spanish National Research Council. In all, Spanish centres will be heading ten projects. The EC will grant IRB Barcelona funding of more than 5 million euro from 2009 to 2011. Malaria and diabetes will be the topics addressed by the consortia headed by the researchers Lluís Ribas de Pouplana and Antonio Zorzano. [more info]

El Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona (IRB) coordinará dos proyectos europeos de investigación, uno de ellos sobre la malaria y el otro sobre la diabetes, según ha resuelto la Comisión Europea (CE) en la segunda convocatoria del VII Programa marco. [more info]