Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is a public university located in Bellaterra, very close to Barcelona city.

Role in HealthAgents

With a world-leading background in magnetic resonance and brain tumour identification, UAB contributes extensively in the development and deployment of the HealthAgents system.

Background

UAB awards a total of sixty-four qualifications in the form of first degrees, diplomas, and engineering degrees. Furthermore, the UAB offers a total of seventy-two doctoral programs and other postgraduate programs. UAB gathers in its Campus more than 40.000 students and almost 3.000 professors. UAB is a pioneering institution in terms of fostering research and has established firm links with research centers abroad, specially with those of the European Community. So far, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona participates in 45 contracts in the EC-FP6 programme, totalling 8,542,525 euros and 20 other EU research contracts for a value of 432,827 euros. UAB  has been coordinator in 14 EU projects. European research contracts are managed by the Research and Technology Transfer Office, that depends on the Vice-rectorate for Research. This Office has a large experience in managing research projects –about 10.000 research contracts since its creation, in 1986. Since 1994, the Vice-rectorate for Research established an Ethical Commission on Human and Animal Research, -being the first one in a Spanish university. Its function is to supervise the experimentation on human and animal beings carried out in the UAB , guaranteeing the compliance of the national laws regarding this issue and the European directives 86/609/CEE, 91/628/CEE and 92/65/CEE.

People

Carles Arús Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UAB . Director of the Group of Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Resonance (GABRMN). He has coordinated the Vth framework EU project INTERPRET (IST-1999-10310) and leads the Data Workpackage of the VI framework EU project eTUMOUR (FP6-2002-LIFESCIHEALTH-503094) . Has expertise in in vivo, ex vivo and in vitro NMR of cancer models and human cancer. He is co-author of more than 50 articles in the field of biomedical NMR.

Joaquín Ariño Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UAB . Expertise: Protein phosphorylation and stress response. His group is responsible for the DNA sequencing facility and DNA microarray facility at the UAB. They have produced in house yeast DNA microchips and gained substantial experience in its use. They are currently involved in funded projects based in the use of DNA microarrays to improve diagnostic and prognostic of several diseases.

Miquel Cabañas Technical support person at the SeRMN, NMR facility of the UAB). He provides support for experiments to be carried out at the SeRMN and also on some computing requirements of GABRMN (automatisation of (pre-)processing of NMR raw data, time domain analysis of the NMR signals). He has been in charge of the MRUI program distribution and of managing the remote support (website at http://www.mrui.uab.es/mrui, mailist, etc.)

Teodor Parella PhD in Chemistry, 1993. Technical Director of SeRMN at UAB. More than 60 publications in the last 10 years on the development of NMR methodology. Co-author in the project “NMR guide” since 1996 http://www.bruker-biospin.de/guide/