ICREA-CCCB Debates
Frederic Bartumeus, Xavier Rodó and Mercè Folch
New clima, new diseases?
ICREA research professors, Frederic Bartumeus (CEAB-CSIC) and Xavier Rodó (ISGlobal) and journalist Mercè Folch, discuss the role of climate change in the emergence and expansion of infectious diseases. Indeed, the experts warn us that climate change could pose the greatest threat ...
Ricard Solé and Patrizia Ziveri
Reinhabiting the Earth
CREA researchers, Ricard Solé (UPF) and Patrizia Ziveri (ICTA-UAB), discuss the challenges facing science to preserve the stability of ecosystems threatened by climate change. Science fiction has often explored these apocalyptic scenarios by raising the possibility of creating new, ...
Elena Galea
Pathologies of Ageing: Alzheimer's disease
Will science be able to cure Alzheimer’s, the most frequent neurodegenerative disease? In this lecture, Elena Galea, ICREA research professor at the Institut de Neurociències at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (INc), talks about the molecular causes of Alzheimer’s will be discussed, together with the research programmes and clinical trials being carried out on a worldwide scale, with particular attention to work in Barcelona on projects aiming to find a cure for the disease.
Miquel Vila
Pathologies of Ageing: Parkinson's disease
Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. There is no cure for Parkinson’s disease as yet but can it be avoided by slowing down ageing? Lecture by Miquel Vila, ICREA research professor at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute ...
Maria Pia Cosma
Can humans regenerate their organs?
Several kinds of animals are able to regenerate parts of their body after an amputation. Would it be possible to apply these techniques in the human being? Maria Pia Cosma, ICREA research professor at the Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG – Centre for Genomic Regulation) ...
Miguel Chillón
Brain ageing and its therapies
Ageing, a complex biological process entailing progressive functional decline of the organism, is particularly important when it affects the brain. At advanced ages some people have memory lapses or suffer from dementia, while others maintain their cognitive capacities. Why? What kinds of interventions ...
Pura Muñoz
Stem cells and ageing: can the process be manipulated?
The organism’s ageing is associated with diminished functionality in tissues and organs and a major decline in the regenerative capacity of stem cells. Hence, manipulation of stem cells favouring the balance on the side of regeneration could prevent or delay ageing. Do we know the processes ...
Interview with Salvador A. Benitah
ICREA research professor at the Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona
Ruth de Diego: “Previously we were trying to discover which part of the brain carried out such and such a function, but now we think about networks”
Centre Documentació i Debat
The ICREA-CCCB debates on “The Brain” end on Tuesday 1 April with the lecture titled “Lessons from Brain Lesions”, which is to be given by the University of Barcelona researcher Ruth de Diego. We have asked her to explain in advance why study of behaviour patterns and ...
Mavi Sánchez-Vives: “In 20 seconds we can produce the illusion of ownership of a third arm”
Centre Documentació i Debat
On Tuesday 25 March Mavi Sánchez-Vives, ICREA research professor at the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) will give a lecture titled “Brain and Virtual Reality“, the third in the ICREA-CCCB series of debates on “The Brain”. We have interviewed ...
Alternatives to evolution
Albert Forns
The challenges and new discoveries in brain research are the subject of «The Brain», the ICREA-CCCB debate which, over the coming four Thursdays, will make known the work of some of the country’s leading researchers in the neurosciences. The cycle begins with a lecture by ...
Can technology find solutions for energy challenges?
Lecture by Andreu Cabot
In recent times our scientists have achieved great innovations in increasing efficiency and reducing costs in energy systems but present-day technological challenges are very complex and, in the domains of best use and storage of energy, we are still a long way from finding a satisfactory solution. Lecture ...
Energy challenges. Fossil fuels: does oil have a future as a source of energy?
Lecture by César R. Ranero
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Interview with Jeroen van den Bergh
ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the UAB)
Great challenges of biomedicine.Autoimmunity, brain and mind
Lecture by Josep Dalmau
A few years ago it was discovered that the immune system could alter the function of neuronal receptors. This brings about serious changes in conduct and memory and also causes psychosis and personality regression.
Great challenges of biomedicine. Down's syndrome: a story of chromosomes
Lecture by Susana de la Luna
Biomedicine is most probably the field of research that has most impact in our lives, not so much in everyday life but, rather, with regard to our state of health, the development of new drugs and, in brief, the prospects for curing many illnesses. The radical changes that have taken place ...
DEBATES // Great challenges of biomedicine. Past, present and future of AIDS
Lecture by Javier Martínez-Picado
“Great Challenges of Biomedicine” is the first of the ICREA-CCCB Debates and the beginning of a stable working relationship aimed at informing the wider public about the advances being made in high-level research in Catalonia and the challenges it faces. Each debate will present the work being done by researchers at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA – Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies) in different fields of knowledge. ...
Interview with Susana de la Luna
Research professor ICREA at Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona
Great challenges of biomedicine. Cancer: from biomedicine to patient
Lecture by Josep Maria Llovet
Biomedicine is most probably the field of research that has most impact in our lives, not so much in everyday life but, rather, with regard to our state of health, the development of new drugs and, in brief, the prospects for curing many illnesses. The radical changes that have taken place ...