The TR2Lab research group brings scientific knowledge closer to all kinds of people who want to get closer to the biosciences.
Events are organized at the University of Vic, such as visits to other schools, for the youngest. Other scientific events are also held for those professionals who are engaged in scientific fields, whether in educational or biomedical fields.
Collaborations in scientific meetings
The CAM model is a very attractive in vivo model for many fields from microbiology, through embryonic and vascular development, and also in the field of oncology.
Verónica explained her academic career, as well as the keys and guidelines for doing a good research project as part of her thesis project on PRP as a treatment for chronic wounds.
Dr. Otero explained the biomedical research that TR2Lab is doing and how we structure the research projects, and she gave tips and advice to guide the students in preparing their research work.
Ph.D. Marta Ferrer and Dr. Joan-Enric Torra participated as speakers, where they talked about Innovation in Technology and Organization as key elements in clinical wound units, both members of the Innovation in wound Healing research line.
Clinicgram is a tool jointly developed by professionals from the Clinical Wound Unit, researchers from the Tissue Repair and Regeneration Research Group (TR2Lab), and the company SEIDOR that collects the history or file of a patient treated in the Clinical Wound Unit, with 3D images of the wound and relevant information on its condition.
Targeted at those studying nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nutrition, and dietetics, the resources of the Knowledge Hub will be developed in collaboration with students. For this reason, five UVic-UCC students will actively participate in the project.
This research program fights cancer in a collective and multidisciplinary way, focused on molecular mechanisms as well as experimental therapies.
Some members of the research line on the mechanism of tissue repair and regeneration have participated in this work: Marta Otero, Marta Casals, Mariona Espaulella, Marta Ferrer, and Marta Cullell.
Promoting to study scientific careers, talking about her experience and her doctoral thesis in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Dr. Enric Torra, member of the TR2Lab group, on innovation in wound healing Research line leadership by Ph.D. Marta Ferrer; was a member of the EWMA-CICA 2022, which dealt with issues of interest related to wound healing.
Within the FEBS3+ Meeting, Xavier Rovira (University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia) organized a symposium about Photopharmacology in which three speakers from France and Spain were invited: Cyril Goudet (Institute of Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France), Pau Gorostiza (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain) and Arnaud Gautier (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Paris, France).
The TR2Lab researcher Ester Goutan has entered COHEHRE’s management team to impulse the research branch together with the Belgian professor Annemie Spooren. Among the goals of the research branch, there is the scientific organization of the COHEHRE Conference which will take place next April in Ghent.
IRIS is a common inititive of diferent medical journals with the collaboration of the Consorci Hospitalari de Vic (CHV) and the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC). It Aims to develop skills to carry out research projects, based on a practical, problem-based approach in an enjoyable cross discipline and cross cultural collaboration.
This Second Symposium is planned as a forum to gather the worldwide experts in photopharmacology to debate and present their advances, facilitate partner interaction, foster cooperativity and open discussions to delimitate problems, define solutions, delineate strategies and envision future developments.
The Bioethics Chair of the UVic-UCC and the Grífols Foundation are organizing the I International Bioethics Congress, which will be held on the 24th and 25th of January 2019. The conference theme is “Teaching and learning in bioethics”. The event aims to analyze, discuss and reflect on education and learning in bioethics, and to inspire and promote innovative teaching and research projects, both in the academic sphere and in clinical practice.
Scientific outreach activities
The “Biomedical Education” project offers specific activities for secondary school students (ESO), baccalaureate, and higher level training cycles (CFGS) in accordance with the academic curriculum, in order to impact their scientific education.
Verónica Salgado, played a significant role in the organization of the conference and also participated as a speaker to share the results of her doctoral thesis.
This Workshop is a great opportunity to get to know the research lines that are carried out in FCTE, which will be presented by different PhD students in oral and poster format.
The main objective of these experimental activities is to establish a bridge between high school science education and university degrees.
The doctoral student from the group, Verónica Salgado, played a significant role in the organization of the conference and also participated as a speaker to share the results of her doctoral thesis.
Verónica explained her academic career, as well as the keys and guidelines for doing a good research project as part of her thesis project on PRP as a treatment for chronic wounds.
In the presentation, Marta Otero explained the path of research into wound healing. From antiquity to the present, from the use of the first dressings to the application of the most advanced therapies.
Gemma Fuster, the TR2Lab researcher, and coordinator of the new degree in Biomedicine at UVic-UCC talks to the digital medium Catorze about biomedicine’s relevance in improving people’s lives and the situation and evolution of biomedical research in our country, from a personal point of view.
Verónica Salgado gave a scientific dissemination talk about Biomedicine to the high school students of IES Tona, to promote studying scientific careers, talking about her experience and her doctoral thesis in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
In this session Marta gave tips and tried to advise the students about their options in the future and talked about possible topics that they can use in their research works even they still have two years to deliver it.
Xavier Jordana, gave an interview to Catalan television 9TV, in which he spoke to us about why the popular classes of the Roman Empire did not hold funeral banquets.
Gemma Fuster member of the Research line Mechanisms of tissue repair and regeneration participates as a teacher in the master of Patologia Mamària 2022-2023, taught by the Faculty of Medicine, of the UB.
Persistent congestion is an important clinical target in acute decompensated heart failure (HF), typically addressed using loop diuretics, but an important and challenging subset of HF patients exhibit fluid overload despite significant doses of loop diuretics.
Last May 9, Ph.D. Joan Enric Torra, a member of TR2Lab’s line of “Innovation in wound healing research”, made a trip to Chile, where he carried out a series of activities related to the treatment and healing of wounds.
This is the fifth edition of the prize, which is jointly organized by the Scientific Dissemination Unit, the Doctoral Schooland the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia (CIC).
Eulàlia Puigdecanet, one of our experts in genetics, discussed the ethics challenges behind the genetic progress together with Bernabé Robles del Olmo, specialist in Neurology, a member of Catalonia Bioethics Commitee.
Marta Otero, TR2Lab’s group leader, makes the closing of the Manel Esteller’s conference at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia in the context of the TLC program.
The main objective of the Catalan Biology Olympiad is to stimulate and involve high school students in the development of this science, since it is impossible to understand life, analyze their problems and propose solutions without adequate knowledge of the main biological issues.
The contest “La teva tesi en 4 minuts” was develope in the UVic-UCC last Friday 20th of April the UVic-UCC. This contest that was aimed at PhD students at the University and proposes the challenge of explaining their research to the public in a very brief intervention
This was the 4th contest “Your thesis in 4 minutes” competition that has been organized by the Doctoral School of the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia. This contest aimed at doctoral students of explaining to the public the development of their research in very brief intervention, with comprehensible, accessible, and understandable language, and using only their oral communication skills.
In the Research workshop at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Welfare she presented to the faculty members the current research projects of the TR2Lab. In the context of the event “Bioday and Biophy…zza” she presented to the students of the bioscience field the research opportunites that TR2Lab offer for internships and degree thesis.
COHEHRE is an international body that groups Health and Social Care faculties in order to facilitate the exchange of experiences and the training of professionals within their member organizations. Traditionally, the COHEHRE devoted its activity mainly to formative aspects within the academy.
