Can Ruti researchers bring science to the heart of Badalona
On 27 November, various Can Ruti Campus healthcare and research sites joined forces to organise talks and workshops engaging directly with the public.
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On 27 November, various Can Ruti Campus healthcare and research sites joined forces to organise talks and workshops engaging directly with the public.
Nearly 200 baccalaureate and vocational training students from the Badalona institutes visited the centres at the Can Ruti Campus. The event "Open House, get to know the Can Ruti Campus up close", organised by the Badalona Education Service and IGTP, in coordination with other institutions on the Campus, has become a flagship initiative of the Science Week.
Several researchers from IGTP took part in this year's European Researchers' Night in Barcelona. They shared their passion for science through talks and led participants of a workshop via a board game into the midst of a tuberculosis epidemic.
Researcher Raquel Guillamat Prats discusses her research on respiratory diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis, respiratory infections, and lung cancer. She also shares her experience of establishing a research group from scratch at IGTP.
Once again, the "Visita la recerca" program of Fundació La Marató de TV3 has successfully concluded at Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), where a score of collaborators had the opportunity to discover firsthand the research projects supported through this charitable initiative.
On 5 June, the fourth year high school students from Sadako School in Barcelona explored the facilities of IGTP in a morning filled with activity. The visit introduced them to some basic principles of scientific research.
The activity of Èpica Foundation La Fura dels Baus, co-financed by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), in collaboration with Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona (IIBB-CSIC), Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and Computer Vision Center (CVC-UAB), took place from 14 to 26 May at Casa de l'Aigua (Trinitat Nova) in Barcelona. The results were presented last weekend before more than 200 people.
Today, World Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Day, IGTP premieres the sixth episode of its podcast 'Un bri de ciència'. Researcher Josep Manyé explains the work of his team to combat this group of diseases, and a patient shares her experiences with Crohn's disease.
Researchers from IGTP have taken part in the 2nd Street Science Fair of ESO with a STEAM focus, Together with students from eight secondary schools and other research centres and companies, they have showed scientific concepts to fifth-grade students in Badalona through various workshops.
To commemorate International Women's Day, we asked four questions to researchers from various profiles at IGTP and professionals from different research support areas. The aim is to understand the difficulties they have faced as women in their professional field and to gain insight into their perspectives on the future.