July 1, 2020
As of July 1st, the AiCuris-ICIQ Joint Unit will start its research activities. ICIQ and the German company AiCuris Anti-infective Cures GmbH have signed an initial contract to work on medicinal chemistry projects to be carried out by five ICIQ researchers. AiCuris is a pharmaceutical company founded in 2006 as a spin-off from Bayer’s virology […]
June 27, 2020
In the final round of the contest “Presenta la teva tesi en 4 minuts”, held on June 25th, Bruna Sánchez, PhD student in the Maseras group, won the second prize, endowed with a 2000€ award. Eleven doctoral students from eleven different universities in Catalonia took part in the competition. You can watch the entire final […]
June 25, 2020
ICIQ group leader Feliu Maseras has participated as a lecturer in a course for chemical industry named Digital Immersion in Industry 4.0 organised by EOI Business School (Escuela de Organización Industrial) in collaboration with FEIQUE (Federación Empresarial de la Industria Química Española). This is an intensive course in digital technologies for the chemical industrial sector, […]
June 22, 2020
Giuseppe Zuccarello, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Echavarren (ICIQ), has virtually defended his PhD thesis entitled “Chiral Pyrrolidinyl-Biphenyl Phosphine Ligands in Gold(I) Catalysis” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on June 22nd. The members of the examining committee were: Prof. Erick M. […]
June 16, 2020
Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol and Dr. Marcos G. Suero have been promoted to Senior Group Leaders after being evaluated by ICIQ’s Scientific Advisory Board and endorsed by the Board of Trustees. Both group leaders joined ICIQ in 2014 through the institute’s Starting Career Programme, which supports highly talented young researchers willing to start an independent scientific […]
June 15, 2020
The measures that we as a society have adopted to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have represented, to a greater or lesser extent, enormous efforts from all of us. Abdicating freedom of movement, the loss of many lives and the terrible circumstances in which they have occurred, the destruction of countless jobs and the certainty that […]
June 12, 2020
Imma Escofet, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (ICIQ), has virtually defended her PhD thesis entitled “Computational Mechanistic Studies in Gold(I) Catalysis and Design of New Chiral Ligands” (assigned to the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on June 12th. The members of the examining committee […]