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16/11/2010 Open House at German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
On Nov 16 2010, the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) had an Open House event whereby the public was invited to visit the DKFZ to learn about its activities. Guided tours as well as seminars were planned. Hundreds of people came. As part of this event, the Teleman lab also organized a guided tour. On this occasion, MITIN pamphlets were distributed to disseminate information regarding MITIN and its activities.
05/10/2010 - MITIN Progress Meeting
MITIN Consortium partners got together in Barcelona to present and discuss the latest achievements in the project. It was the first technical meeting after the first periodic report submitted to the European Commission on July 2010. The meeting took place on 5 of October, 2010 in the facilities of Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB) and it was organized by IRB Barcelona. The partners discussed the work planning for the following 6 months. Moreover, future opportunities were explored in order to continue the successful research partnership promoted under MITIN project.
22/04/2010 - "Fira de Recerca en Directe"
La "Fira de Recerca en Directe" organizada por La Obra Social de Caixa Catalunya y el Parc Científic de Barcelona, tuvo lugar en Barcelona (ESPAÑA) del 20 al 22 de Abril 2010. La feria fue una exposición acerca de la investigación actual cuyo principal objetivo la contribución a la potenciación de la cultura científica entre el público general y donde se expusieron los proyectos actuales desarrollados en Barcelona. Tanto investigadores como el público pudieron interactuar durante los experimentos con instrumentos de laboratorio utilizados en dichos proyectos y donde el IRB Barcelona tuvo su propio stand con el nombre: ¿Puede un fármaco ya existente servir para mejorar la obesidad y la diabetes?
Más información:
http://obrasocial.caixacatalunya.cat/osocial/idiomes/2/fitxers/cultura/recerca/index.htm
09/03/2010 - MITIN 3rd Technical Meeting
For the third time, on 9th March 2010, MITIN partners met in Barcelona to discuss and assess the scientific and technical progress achieved during the first 18 months of life of MITIN project. The meeting was hosted by Antonio Zorzano (IRB Barcelona) in the facilities of Barcelona Science Park (PCB). The meeting was also attended by other project collaborators, as well as by different members of research community from IRB Barcelona and Barcelona Science Park.
Dr. Lars Juhl Jensen from University of Copenhagen (Denmark) (Read his imputs), accepted the invitation to attend the meeting in his quality of member of the Scientific Advisory Board. He started the scientific session with a talk on “Protein networks: A basis for large-scale data mining”. As an expert in computational & Systems Biology biology, his inputs to MITIN consortia were mainly related to the generation of the computational framework which is the objective of WP 1.
Among the meeting attendees it was the external reviewer appointed by the EC for assessing MITIN Interim Progress, Prof. Jerzy Duszinsky, Director of The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology (Warsaw, Poland).
The meeting was splitted into two sessions: during the morning session, each partner presentation was followed by discussions between the partners, on scientific and technical problems. The day was ended with an overview on future work and on practical aspects related to the project interim (scientific and financial) reporting.
18/02/2010 - NEW RESULTS FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES, Antonio Zorzano
There may be hope for young adults suffering from type 2 diabetes, according to new research. Writing in the journal Diabetes Care, the researchers from Ireland, Spain and Italy investigated how new mechanisms in muscle cells may elucidate severe insulin resistance in the body, and showed a reduced response to aerobic exercise in young obese patients with type 2 diabetes. The study's results are part of the DIABESITY ('Novel molecular drug targets for obesity and type 2 diabetes') project, funded under the 'Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health' Thematic area of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) to the tune of EUR 11.6 million. [+ information]
