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• 8/03/2012 - General information

  Scientific scope of the IMIM’s anti-doping laboratory

  Jordi Segura, Director of the Laboratory for Anti-Doping Control of the Hospital del Mar Research Institute (IMIM), was recently appointed President of the World Association of Anti-Doping Scientists (WAADS) for a two-year period and member of the Scientific Committee of the Catalan Ministry of Sport.

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• 29/02/2012 - General information

  Open Phacts proved useful

  The prototype of a knowledge tool developed by the Open PHACTS Consortium has proven useful by identifying relevant information in a matter of seconds, when a traditional search could take days. It will provide information on small molecules, their pharmacological profile, pharmacokinetics, etc. from multiple sources available on the Internet.

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• 18/11/2011 - General information

  IMIM already three years on twitter

  This November IMIM (Research Institute Hospital del Mar) celebrates its three years of history on twitter. This initiative began as a pioneer experience in the field of research to disseminate to the general public the news of the institution, the calendar of courses and conferences, the Inforecerca and everything that is published in the science bloc IMIMA'T. The twitter of the IMIM has been consolidated with success and currently has over 400 followers.

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• 28/01/2011 - General information

  GRIB Members Win an International Competition

  

  Laura López, Cristian Obiol-Pardo and Jana Selent, members of the Computer Aided Drug Design (CADD) group of the Biomedical IT Research Group (GRIB, of the UPF-IMIM) have won first prize for the best prediction of the ligands established by the GPCR protein, a molecule which intervenes in many cell processes and interacts with half of all known drugs.

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• 16/12/2010 - General information

  25 years of the IMIM Anti-Doping Control Laboratory

  

  In November, the IMIM Anti-Doping Control Laboratory, directed by Dr. Jordi Segura, celebrated 25 years of history. Ever since it was first accredited by the International Olympic Committee in 1985, its objective has always been to offer high quality, reliable services. It is currently made up of a team of around 30 people from various disciplines and origins, all of whom have extensive experience in the doping field.

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• 13/12/2010 - General information

  The IMIM hosts the meeting of the Laboratory Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

  

  In connection with this, the meeting of the WADA Lab Committee, chaired by Toni Pascual, took place in the IMIM on the 9th and 10th December past. This committee is made up of an international group of experts on doping and is the advisory body in charge of all aspects related to the work carried out by anti-doping control laboratories on a global scale

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• 16/11/2010 - General information

  Important progress made on the human immune system’s ability to tackle cytomegalovirus

  

  A study directed by Miguel López-Botet, director of the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) and coordinator of the Immunology Laboratory of the Health and Experimental Science Department (CEXS), has identified the receptors involved in triggering the cytotoxic activity of human NK (natural killer) cells in response to human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-infected dendritic cells.

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• 12/07/2010 - General information

  20th European Athletics Championships

  The City of Barcelona will host from 27 July to 1 August 2010 the 20th European Athletics Championships, Barcelona 2010. The Hospital del Mar will be one of the reference hospitals for both its timetabled care (tests) as well as emergency services and the IMIM's Anti-Doping Control Laboratory will be in charge of performing the doping control tests for the championships

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• 07/07/2010 - General information

  Kidney disease in patients with heart-related chest pain increases the mortality risk

  According to an international study which IMIM took part, kidney disease is a significant predictor of in-hospital mortality and 30-day mortality in patients who come to the hospital with heart-related chest pain, otherwise known as Non-ST-segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome (NSTE-ACS).

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• 28/05/2010 - General information

  Commercial release of Pentacle, an advanced tool for 3D QSAR and Virtual screening developed at GRIB

  Molecular Discovery Ltd, one of the world leader companies in chemoinformatics and services for the pharmaceutical industry has launched to the market the software Pentacle, developed at the Computer of Assisted Drug Design (CADD) laboratory by Ángel Durán and Manuel Pastor.

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