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Highlights
2nd edition of Summer School on Medicines (SSM2)

The 2nd edition of "Summer School on Medicines" (SSM2) –a summer school organized jointly by the Barcelona Science Park and the Tolouse Cancer Campus in colaboration with Biocat–, will take place from August 31 through September 10 in Toulouse (France) and in Barcelona. These two cities are pioneers in pharmaceutical I+D in Southern Europe.

Nínsar Agrosciences creates a technique to naturally extend the shelf life of tomatoes

The biotech Nínsar Agrosciences, based at the Barcelona Science Park, has just launched into the market the rights to produce and distribute a new technique called ESL Extended Shelf-Life which makes it possible to extend the preservation time of tomatoes, thanks to a technology developed by the company which enables the natural introduction –by means of hybridization- of a gene that incorporates this property.

The Palo Biofarma Biotech increases its capital by 2M€

The Catalan biotech PaloBiofarma, based at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB), has closed its second round of financing by means of which it has obtained two million Euros. Half of these funds have been provided by private investors, including the Inveready Seed Capital venture capital company, based at the PCB, and the cofounders of Oryzon, Carlos Buesa and Tamara Maes, a company that is also affiliated with the PCB.


	News

	The Barcelona Science Park hots the Summer School on Medicines participants

	The Bosch i Gimpera Foundation (FBG) organises the new journey Transfereix!.

	The Bosch i Gimpera Foundation participates in a cell therapy program to drive translational research

	The Generalitat promotes two R+D+I reference networks managed by the FBG

	Microart collaborates in a new biomedical computer science post-graduate degree of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia


	Events

	3/9/2010		BIOMED SEMINARS Many ways to make ends meet: orchestration of DNA double-strand break repair processes by the NHEJ pathway Aidan Doherty, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Host: Travis Stracker, IRB Barcelona Edifici Clúster, Aula Fèlix Serratosa, 12h



	6/9/2010		IBEC Seminar Matrix and Myosin in cell fate decisions: MSCs, HSCs, and Embryonic Cardiomyocytes IBEC > Edifici Torre I, Planta 11, 10:00h



	8/9/2010		Seminario “Sobre síntesis de oligos de IDT” Laboratorios CONDA > Edifici Torre I, Sala 1 10h.



	10/9/2010		BIOMED SEMINARS The Alternating Access Mechanism of Transport as Observed in the Sodium-Hydantoin Transporter Mhp1 Alexander D. Cameron, PhD Division of Molecular Biosciences Membrane Protein Crystallography Group Imperial College London - UK Edifici Clúster, Aula Fèlix Serratosa, 12h



	16/9/2010		Comptatge de radionúclids emissors beta per tècnica d’escintil•lació líquida; fonaments, preparació de mostres, quench químic y de color, luminescència, pràctica software Tricarb. PerkinElmer España > Edifici Torre I, Sala 4- Sala 1, 9h.

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