13-07-2010
The class of 2010 master's degree and doctorate course students graduate
The graduation ceremony for master's degree and doctorate courses at the UPF was held on 1 July. Flora de Pablo, a professor at the Center for Biological Investigation at the Spanish Research Council, gave the graduation lecture on "Stopping degeneration and regenerating tissues: biohealth challenges of the third millennium".

 17-06-2010
Jewish populations have a common genetic origin
On 10 ^th June, Nature published an article analyzing the genome diversity of different Jewish groups and populations in the Middle East and among the authors was David Comas, researcher at the Evolutionary Biology Unit of the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (CEXS) of the UPF.

 09-06-2010
The first results of the Neanderthal Genome project have been published
On 7 ^th May, the journal Science published two articles about the Neanderthal genome, one year after announcing the end of this project, led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) with the collaboration of two researchers of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC).

 09-06-2010
Emma Puighermanal receives the Jose Antonio Salvá prize for Basic Pharmacology
Her work has been selected by the Catalan Society for Pharmacology to receive the prize. The prizegiving ceremony took place on 25th of May, at 8.00 pm at the Catalan and Balearic Academy of Medical Sciences.

 26-05-2010
UPF awards Michelle Bachelet with a degree honoris causa
The former president of Chile has received the top academic distinction for defending human rights, democracy and justice. During the ceremony, our thoughts went out to M. Rosa Virós, ex-Rector of UPF, who was scheduled to give the encomium of Sra Bachelet but passed away at the weekend. 

 11-05-2010
Five courses taught at UPF are considered the best in Spain
The bachelor's degrees in Political Sciences, Audiovisual Communication, Economics, Finances and Accounting and Labour Relations are in first place in the ranking of universities published today in El Mundo.

 28-04-2010
UPF is the leader in scientific productivity in Spain
It has moved up from second position in this ranking, which measures scientific work at the Spanish public universities. It is also in first place in the specific criteria which provide the basis for the study carried out by the University of Granada and published in Psicothema.

 19-04-2010
Registration for the Erasmus-Columbus international mobility programme is now open
ERACOL is an academic exchange scholarship programme between Europe and Latin America in the fields of medicine and health sciences. The consortium comprises eleven institutions, six from America and five from Europe, one of which is UPF.

 12-04-2010
Sequencing technologies create new ways for more precise treatments
A study published in the 10 ^th March issue of Nature, in which researchers at CRG, a UPF affiliated centre,  and the Sanger Institute of Cambridge led by the Faculty of Medicine of the Geneva University, studied how genetic variations in DNA affect the activity of genes.

 22-03-2010
The UPF opens its profile in Facebook
The Pompeu Fabra University has just released its official profile in the social network Facebook with the aim to increase the institutional visibility in Internet.