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19-05-2025

Allopurinol, designated as the first orphan drug for Marfan syndrome treatment

The UB, IDIBAPS and CIBERER are promoting this important new advance in the fight against a genetic and minority disease that causes serious alterations in the cardiovascular system — such as aneurysms and rupture of the aorta — and affects around 7 out of every 100,000 people in the European Union.
 

Institutional

16-05-2025

The University of Barcelona participates in the new Future4Alliances project to boost European universities

It is one of nine universities that are part of the initiative, which is promoted by thirty ministries and public bodies in several countries. 

 

Institutional

15-05-2025

The University of Barcelona Clínic Health Campus project moves forward

The Rector briefs the Governing Council on developments related to this project and on the negotiation of the EU funding framework programme, among other issues. 


 

Research

15-05-2025

A study analyses the causes of university procrastination and proposes strategies to reduce its academic and emotional impact

The paper, published in the Journal of Further and Higher Education, identifies how time management, personality and psychological distress influence the tendency to procrastinate on academic tasks. The study is signed by Adrien Faure-Carvallo, Sergio Nieto-Fernández, Caterina Calderón and Josep Gustems, researchers at the University of Barcelona. 

Research

12-05-2025

Science and TV cameras in the middle of Arctic glaciers

Scientists and journalists take part in a UB expedition to study glaciers in northern Greenland. 

Culture

15-05-2025

Hispania, the engine of Roman imperial wealth: a fresh look at the economy of antiquity

University of Barcelona Editions publishes Economía de la Hispania romana. Paisajes de producción y dinámicas comerciales, which analyses the nature and evolution of the economy of an imperial territory that integrated the ecological and cultural diversity of the Mediterranean world and its periphery.

Divulgation

14-05-2025

Xavier Giménez and Meritxell Aulinas, honoured for their scientific dissemination tasks

The lecturer from the Faculty of Chemistry and the lecturer from the Faculty of Earth Sciences received the 11th and 12th Award for the best UB dissemination activity at a ceremony that also included the awarding of the Doctors’ Senate Award and the extraordinary doctoral awards.
 

Research

14-05-2025

Researchers develop a potential new drug for Alzheimer’s and pain treatment

An international study led by the UB has shown cognitive and analgesic effects in early mouse trials.

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