Carla Casadevall, Laura Velasco and Adrian Brenes have participated during this edition to disseminate science in an informal and relaxed atmosphere The Pint of Science festival is back to unite science and the community in an informal relaxed atmosphere. The event has taken place from 22nd to 24th May and has been hosted in various […]

Do you need to optimize the chemical properties of a drug? Looking for a new patent with different substance properties? Salt and co-crystal screening studies are crucial in the development of drugs for the pharmaceutical industry. Such studies bring to companies the discovery of derivates of their drug substances with enhanced properties, which can lead […]

Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol, Group Leader at ICIQ, will work on new processes for producing fuels. Renewable energies and sustainability are the main focus of ICIQ’s research. Concretely, the project is coordinated by Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol, Group Leader at ICIQ, is aimed at discovering new processes for producing fuels through the automated development of catalysts. “Electrochemical […]

Ana Arroyo, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended her thesis entitled “Design of New Gold(I) Catalysts: Dissecting Electronic and Steric Effects” publicly on May 19th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. Maribel Matheu (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Prof. Fernando J. López (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) and […]

The centre partners with biotech start-ups, incubators or investors that are looking to take innovative ideas to the next level Is your start-up company growing and need laboratory space or state-of-the-art equipment? Are you an investor or incubator supporting an outstanding project without the proper facilities, or still looking for expert advisors on the field? […]

A portable infrared spectroscopy device granted by BASF allows to separate the clean plastic by type and at the origin of its generation A clean plastic segregation project developed within the ICIQ laboratories was the winner of Plastic Waste Challenge organized by trinamiX GmbH, a subsidiary of BASF. The project submitted by the Safety, Health, […]

The second edition of this contest, promoted by LA MIRA in collaboration with Catalunya Ràdio, recognizes the podcast among 200 participants The podcast co-produced by the Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ-CERCA) and Tarragona Ràdio, ‘Blau de Prússia’ was nominated as one of the ‘best advertising podcast’ of the Premis Sonor 2023. The awards ceremony was […]