Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona - UAB
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona plays a leading role in scientific research. Its main areas of investigation include Biotechnology and Biomedicine (including the vital contribution made through the clinical research carried out at associate hospitals), Animal Health, Food Technology and Safety, Environmental Sciences and Technology, Nanotechnology, Microelectronics, Material Science and Engineering, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Experimental Sciences, Social Sciences, and research in Humanities. This wide range of disciplines all integrated into one area helps to promote multidisciplinarity in research. The university coordinates a potent scientific and technological centre (the Esfera UAB), promotes new business projects, and directs and projects its productive activity towards its socio-economic surroundings by disseminating new knowledge.
UAB’s research groups participating in TREAT-NMD have long standing experience in the development, and production of viral vectors and gene therapy strategies for diseases afecting the nervous system, as well as optimization of large-scale cell culture-based systems and preparation and purification of the biological material by using bioreactors.
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau is a high complexity hospital which dates back six centuries, making it the oldest hospital in Spain. The hospital attends over 34,000 admissions each year and more than 150,000 emergencies. In the field of research, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau is one of the most prominent centres in Spain, as can be appreciated from the volume of papers published and their input factor, the number and quality of projects which receive funding and the grants awarded.
Website www.uab.es
Assumpció Bosch
Assumpció is an associate professor at the UAB since 2006 and a group leader at the Center of Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy (CBATEG) since 2004.
Miguel Chillón
Miguel is an ICREA Research Professor Center of Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy (CBATEG) at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) since 2001, and the scientific representative of the UAB in the TREAT-NMD governing-board.
Jordi Gálvez Sánchez
Jordi is a Chemical Engineer working in the Tissular and Cellular Engineering Group at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Jose Piedra
Jose is a research technician of the Vector Production Unit (VPU) since 2004. He is working in the design, production, purification and characterization of viral vectors (human and canine adenovirus and adeno-associated virus).
Maria Ontiveros
She is a research technician of the Vector Production Unit (VPU) since 2004. She is working in the design, production, purification and characterization of viral vectors (human and canine adenovirus and adeno-associated virus).
Mercè Monfar
Dr. Mercè Monfar has over fifteen years of laboratory experience in the areas of cellular and molecular biology.
Susana Miravet
She is a research technician of the Vector Production Unit (VPU) since 2004. She is working in the design, production, purification and characterization of viral vectors (human and canine adenovirus and adeno-associated virus).
Francesc Gòdia
Francesc is a Full Professor of Chemical Engineering, and served as Head of Chemical Engineering Unit at UAB from 1991 to 1994.
Maria de las Mercedes Segura
Mercedes is responsible for developing processes for the large-scale manufacturing of recombinant viral vectors.
Jordi Joan Cairo
Jordi is an associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Isabel Illa
Professor Isabel ILLA is Chief of Neuromuscular Diseases at Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau (HSCSP), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona were she trained as a neurologist. After completing her PhD thesis on Myasthenia Gravis she worked as a neurologist with special interest in neuromuscular diseases at HSCSP. She was a visiting associate at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, NINDS, Neuromuscular Diseases Section from 1989 until 1992. In 2005 she was appointed Chair of Neurology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
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