Until the 15th of June at the Medical School of Barcelona (COMB) the exhibition "Catalan medical press" can be seen, which opened on Tuesday with a presentation by Dr. Josep Danon, head of the Historical Library Uriach Foundation 1838. The exhibition exposes and explains the history of Catalan medicine in the last centuries through its publications.

Minimum requirements are a Ph.D. degree obtained preferably before 2006, with four years of international exposure at pre-doctoral and/or post-doctoral level. Only very strong candidates with an outstanding research record and excellent leadership capabilities will be considered.

The renowned oncologist Josep Baselga, who is currently the Chief of Oncology at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, has accepted the management of the Oncology Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School in Boston

Both organizations strengthen relationships in research, development and innovation in the field of information technology and communication, as reflects the collaborative framework agreement signed between the rector of the University of Lleida, Joan Viñas; the CEO of Indra, Santiago Roura, and the director of Indra Software Labs, Santiago Escribano.

Held on Monday, 3 March 2010, the University-Business Career Day for Nursing included a colloquium in which the following healthcare centres participated: Mútua de Terrassa, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Hospital General de Catalunya, Centre Mèdic Tecknon, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and Fundació Hospital-Asil de Granollers.

Yesterday the BIO-Europe Spring conference closed, which for three days has converted Barcelona in the European capital of biotechnological partnership. It has enjoyed the participation of 1,061 companies and 1,800 attendees from 43 countries. The organizers, EBD Group, say that this has been the most successful in its history, with an increase, despite the crisis, of 15% over last year's congress in Milan. BIO-Europe Spring has facilitated 9,000 'one-to-one’ meetings to establish partnership relations between actors of the biotechnology sector.

Today begins at the Polytechnic School of the University of Vic, the first Market of Technological Experiences in High School in Osona (Mercatec Osona), where around 100 future engineers of Osona, Ripollès, Berguedà and El Bages will exhibit their technology projects.

An investigation by archaeologists of the Archaeological group of the Centre of Studies of the Archaeological Heritage of the Prehistory of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (CEPAP-UAB) at the site Cova Gran (Lleida) has fuelled the scientific debate on the appearance of the first 'modern' men at the Iberian Peninsula and their possible connection with the disappearance of the Neanderthals. The samples taken from Cova Gran dated by Carbon 14 relate to the time between 34,000 and 32,000 years to position temporarily when there was this biological replacement in the Western Mediterranean, although the study relativizes the validity of the carbon-14 technique for dating the materials from the period of transition from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic (40,000 to 30,000 years). The results also reinforce the hypothesis that there was no interaction or coexistence between the species.

Diet and aerobic exercise are highly effective for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but not for obese subjects that have developed the disease when very young. A study at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and Trinity College in Dublin demonstrates that obese subjects between 18 and 25 years of age carry mitochondrial proteins and genes that work abnormally and that these anomalies contribute to generating insulin resistance and a reduced response to physical exercise. Produced by the American Diabetes Association, the journal ‘Diabetes Care’, which disseminates the clinical studies of greatest relevance, will publish the results of this research in its March issue.

'eHealth' defines the concept of total integration of information technologies and communication technologies (ICTs) in the tasks of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring, and management of health and lifestyles. ICTs are thus becoming a new operator in the Health System, which, to be sustainable and respond to emerging needs, requires these tools. Barcelona will host this year, from 15 to 18 March, the 'eHealth Week 2010', an initiative that welcomes for the first time the High Level Ministerial Conference on 'eHealth' (High Level eHealth Conference ) and the World Conference and Exhibition of Health IT (WoHIT). 'The eHealth week 2010' promises to be the most prestigious event of the year at European level in the field of electronic health and is expected to draw over 2,500 attendees from around the world and more than 75 IT companies in the International Convention Centre of Barcelona (CCIB).

Professor Antoni Giró has been re-elected president of the UPC in the elections that took place in March 10, through a free and universal suffrage. According to preliminary results, Antoni Giró has obtained a percentage of 51.597% of weighted votes, compared to 48.403% of weighted votes that the candidate Juan Jesus Perez has achieved.

The Leitat Technological Centre, a member of the TECNI Network, and the town hall of Ruby have signed a cooperation agreement which makes the entity the first technology partner of the consistory in the project of the future site of business centres of innovation and energy efficiency to be created at the Masia de Can Serra. The agreement was signed by Carmen Garcia, mayor of Rubí, and Albert Matarrodona, executive director of the technology centre.