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Bee venom to treat central nervous system diseases

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The Generalitat’s (Catalan Government) Universities and Research website has echoed on the research performed by scientists at IRB Barcelona and the UB, namely a shuttle produced from a peptide present in bee venom and capable of transporting molecules into the brain.

The research results arose from the Benjamí Oller's PhD thesis, done in Professor Ernest Giralt's Lab at IRB Barcelona and defended in 2015. In January 2016, he started his postdoctoral training in Cambridge, UK. 

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The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).