October 21, 2008
An interdisciplinary team of researchers, leaded by Prof. Javier de Mendoza (ICIQ, Tarragona) and Prof. Ernest Giralt (Institute for Research in Biomedicine – IRB Barcelona), have discovered a substance able to maintain protein p53 stable and active even when it presents certain mutations that promote the appearance of cancer.Giralt, head of the Chemistry and Molecular […]
October 16, 2008
Alfons Nonell-Canalls, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Maseras, defended his PhD Thesis entitled QM and QM/MM studies on organic and bioinorganic systems (assigned to the Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. Agustí Lledós (Universitat Autònoma […]
October 15, 2008
The second Chem Soc Rev Lecture Award was presented to Prof. Feliu Maseras, Group Leader at ICIQ, by Advisory Board Member Prof. Odile Eisenstein, at the recent 8th WATOC meeting in Sydney (Australia), which took place from the 14th – 19th September, and was well attended with approximately 850 participants. Prof. Feliu Maseras receiving the […]
September 29, 2008
The article Towards functional clathrates: Size and composition-controlled octadecasil nanocrystals by desilication (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 7913-7917), co-authored by Javier Pérez-Ramírez, Sònia Abelló, Luis A. Villaescusa and Adriana Bonilla has been distinguished as a Hot Paper and is highlighted on the Cover of Angewandte Chemie on this issue, a distinction that for the […]
September 17, 2008
Dana Madeleine Popa, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Vidal and Prof. Pericàs, defended her PhD Thesis entitled Modular phosphinooxazolines: Synthesis and evaluation in allylic substitutions (assigned to the Departament de Química Analítica i Química Orgànica of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of her evaluation committee were: Prof. […]
July 21, 2008
ICIQ has organized for the third year the ICIQ Summer School 2008. The School Scientific Program included a number of lectures given by world-class experts in organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry.All the assistants, around 70 people this year, enjoyed a visit to the Poblet Monestir and Montblanc village and after they had dinner in a […]
July 17, 2008
Eva Santos García, PhD student of Prof. Bo group, defended her PhD Thesis entitled Computational studies on supramolecular hydrogen-bonded structures: From nanocapusles to proteines (assigned to the Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of her evaluation committee were: Prof. Javier de Mendoza (ICIQ), […]