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The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has received 4,859,000 euros from the Community of Madrid to fund three COVID-19 research projects.

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has coordinated research that has successfully treated a patient with "butterfly skin" with a drug capable of eliminating the consequences of inherited mutations, for the first time.

Promoting the fight against the use of drugs of abuse, anticipating to the appearance of new psychoactive drugs and assessing the risks these have on human health are the main objectives of the Europ

Institucional The Barcelona Science Park is home to a company that is heading up a project through the Research Challenges programme, of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, aiming to develop a drug to treat hepatic fibrosis and myelofibrosis.

A greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet which had been assessed through an index made with biomarkers during a 20-year scientific monitoring is associated with a lower mortality in adults over 65.

Two studies led by CRES-UPF researchers, which compare data for 2019 (without the pandemic) and 2020 (with the pandemic) in the field of the public primary healthcare system in Catalonia, reveal major effects on the health of the population and changes in the care model.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has designated as an orphan drug the first gene therapy approach to treat megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts (MLC), an ultra-rare disease that appears in childhood and leads to various neurological complications.

The impact of the pandemic according to socioeconomic origin is the subject of research in the framework of the UPF bachelor's degree in Mathematical Engineering in Data Science, by Genona Torruella, supervised by professor Miguel Ángel Cordobés.

Altum Sequencing, a start-up in the biotechnology sector that is part of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid's (UC3M) Incubation and Acceleration of Companies and Industrial PhD programmes, has paten

Research finds that COVID-19 vaccines pre-prepared in syringes for their administration can be safely transported This may be of great relevance in mass vaccination strategies, especially in rural and less developed areas, as the doses can be prepared in an official healthcare centre and then transported to remote vaccination sites or areas with an underdeveloped healthcare infrastructure.

Human milk from infected women and vaccinated for coronavirus has antibodies against COVID-19, according to two published studies in the medRxiv repository and launched by the scientific consortium M

A research team from Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS, the University of Barcelona and the academic research group on oncology SOLTI has shown that the molecular classification of breast cancer, which divides

Researchers of the UB and Clínic-IDIBAPS, together with researchers from the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, lead a study that shows patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who unde

Recerca The Production and Validation Center for Advanced Therapies ( Creatio ) of the University of Barcelona, has taken part in the production of viruses that act as vectors for the CAR-T ARI-0001