Category Archives: Innovation

A new dawn for gene therapy?

Virus-based gene therapies: a powerful tool for preclinical research and an opportunity for human medicine. Technically, gene therapy consists in the efficient delivery of a gene to a specific target tissue or cell type in a patient to treat a genetic disease. This genetic delivery can be carried out by viral vectors, including lentiviruses, adenoviruses […]

Alicante Conexión Salud celebrates its 4th edition and consolidates the province as a benchmark in healthcare innovation

More than 80 professionals took part in this edition, considered a key meeting point for health innovation. Researcher Víctor Meseguer presented a project for the development of a new drug to treat ocular pain. Participants at the 4th edition of Alicante Conexión Salud. Source: UMH The 4th edition of the provincial open health innovation forum, […]

El Instituto de Neurociencias recibe 500.000€ de la AVI para el mantenimiento y desarrollo de su UCIE

El Instituto de Neurociencias (UMH-CSIC) es beneficiario de la ayuda de la Agencia Valenciana de Innovación (AVI) para el mantenimiento y desarrollo de su Unidad Científica de Innovación Empresarial (UCIE) durante el ejercicio 2022-2024. La AVI tiene como objetivo la mejora del modelo productivo valenciano mediante el desarrollo de su capacidad innovadora orientado a la […]

i-Onion: innovation to diagnose dry eye disease

The lack of quantitative tools to diagnose dry eye syndrome is a major healthcare problem and i-Onion’s promoters from the Instituto de Neurociencias perceived the opportunity to apply innovation to one of their research lines. Lágrima, a project led by Dr. Juana Gallar and Dr. Carlos Belmonte, has been one of the first innovation projects […]

IN obtains a €500,000 grant from an AVI innovation call

The Instituto de Neurociencias (IN), with the assistance of its Innovation Office (IN.Pulse), recently secured €500,000 in funding for an innovation project led by the CSIC researchers María Domínguez and Roberto Santoro, in collaboration with the Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI), the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (INCLIVA) and with the support from other IN principal […]

IN obtiene la renovación de In.Pulse por parte de IVACE+i

El Instituto de Neurociencias (UMH-CSIC) es beneficiario de la ayuda del Instituto Valenciano de Competitividad e Innovación (IVACE+i) para el mantenimiento y desarrollo de IN.Pulse, la Unidad Científica de Innovación Empresarial (UCIE) del IN, durante los ejercicios 2024-2026 (INNVA2/2024/5). La misión de IN.PULSE es establecer nexos entre la investigación que se realiza en el IN […]

IN.Traslab: Ciencia y clínica, en la misma dirección

El workshop IN.Traslab ha reunido a un total de 50 personas entre personal investigador del Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante y profesionales del ámbito clínico procedentes de 5 hospitales de la CV para compartir conocimientos, detectar necesidades comunes y explorar nuevas vías de colaboración. A través de sesiones de trabajo conjunto en más de 25 reuniones bilaterales entre investigadores y […]

Ivace+i funds a platform to predict health problems in the elderly and accelerate new drug research

The ‘Frailty’ project involves the creation and optimization of an automated robotic system to study aging. The system will allow for monitoring this process in both healthy individuals and those with accelerated aging-related diseases. The Department of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism, led by Marián Cano, is funding, through Ivace+i Innovación, the development of an […]

María Dominguez: “Transforming ideas into tangible innovations can amplify the impact of basic research”

Interview with Dr. María Dominguez Castellano, principal investigator of the Mechanisms of growth control and cancer group and coordinator of the scientific program of Genetic & epigenetic basis of individuality and aging at the Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH), on the importance of basic research to promote advances in innovation. Expanding basic Research: Fuelling New Diagnostics, […]

The Institute for Neurosciences CSIC-UMH strengthens collaboration with the biotechnology industry through IN.Pulse Connect

The Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche, held today the first edition of IN.Pulse Connect, an event organized by IN.Pulse, the IN Scientific Unit for Business Innovation, with the support of the Institut Valencià de Competitivitat i Innovació (IVACE+i). […]