Interviews

April 24 marks the World Day of laboratory animals. Everybody thinks about mice but IDIBELL also works with other animal models such as worms, pigs or frogs and others.

The researcher Artur Llobet of the cellular and molecular neurobiology group is working with a species of frog, Xenopus tropicalis, able to regenerate brain functions.

Seven years after the entry into force of the first smoking law, we are beginning to see the benefits in public health. Benefits, according Esteve Fernandez, head of the tobacco control unit of ICO will increase when we analyze the impact of the second law that took effect in 2011, much more restrictive.

The mayor of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat explains that we must use the crisis to raise the head and look to the future, and in this sense she believes that the power of healthcare, research and teaching activities at Biopol'H space is an opportunity to host economic activities linked to health.

Dr. Isabel Fabregat talks in this interview about the IT-Liver European training project aimed at predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers.