In accordance with the results of the Labor Insertion survey AQU 2017, answered by 30 students of Phd Programme in Biomedicine of the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years, the branches of activity in which the doctorates work are:

 

Sector

Percentage

Pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries

13%

Services to companies

3%

Public Administration, Defense, and Social Security

3%

Education, research and cultural services

52%

Health and social assistance

26%

Branch of economic activity of the company

3%

 

Employability of former students from the PhD Programme in Biomedicine that received the Doctoral School PhD Special Award

Student

Thesis

Current Job

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PhD Special Award

Nuno Amaral 

"The Aurora B-dependent NoCut checkpoint prevents damage of anaphase bridges after DNA replication stress", supervised by Manuel Ernesto Mendoza Palomares, from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG). In his thesis, Amaral investigates how yeast cells use a checkpoint, the so-called NoCut checkpoint, to detect chromosome segregation defects, preventing damage to chromatin bridges and halting the cell division process. The understanding of how cells detect DNA separation defects is relevant to the understanding of molecular mechanisms behind different human pathologies, such as cancer.

Postdoctoral Researcher at Karolinska Institutet

 

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2015-2016

Max Carbonell

Engineering principles for synthetic biology. From concept to practice”, supervised by Javier Macía and Carlos Rodríguez Caso from Pompeu Fabra University. In his thesis, Carbonell questions several theoretical approaches widely used in synthetic biology and reinforces and expands on the theoretical and experimental corpus that should help to unfold this field as a veritable engineering discipline. First, he explores how to improve standardization of genetic parts via their improved characterization. Second, he provides a new theoretical framework that is inspired by Ohm’s law and describes the unintended coupling of the coexisting genetic loads within a given host cell.

On sabbatical leave

 

2015-2016

Davide Cirillo 

“Prediction of protein and nucleic acids interactions”, supervised by Gian Gaetano Tartaglia from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG). In his thesis, Cirilo contributes to this problem by developing high-throughput bioinformatics methods to quantitatively evaluate associations between proteins and nucleic acids. Furthermore, the thesis exploits these methods in the study of neurodegenerative diseases and in the regulation of protein-coding and non-coding RNA molecules. Cirilo is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Life Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

 

Post-doctoral researcher at the Life Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

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2015-2016

Miquel Duran Frigola 

Blending biology and chemistry to enable systems pharmacology”, supervised by Patrick Aloy, from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine. In his thesis, Duran-Frigola undertook part of this challenge by computationally joining two research areas that have traditionally followed independent paths, namely chemoinformatics, in the realm of the pharmaceutical industry, and bioinformatics, where data are publicly available from academic labs. More concretely, this thesis looks into the biological and chemical features of approved drugs and links them to their clinical side effects.

Post-doctoral fellow at the Structural Bioinformatics & Network Biology Laboratory at IRB Barcelona

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2015-2016

África Flores

“Orexin receptors as therapeutic targets for addiction and anxiety disorders”, supervised by Fernando Berrendero and Rafael Maldonado from Pompeu Fabra University. Flores examines the role of orexin transmission in the pharmacological and reinforcing effects of cannabinoids, which represent important contributing factors for cannabis addiction. Her results reveal for the first time the therapeutic potential of orexin receptor-1 blockade as a novel target to prevent cannabis addiction, as well as to alleviate abnormal fear retention in anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder and phobias.

Post-doctoral researcher at the Neurosciences Institute (INc) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).

Link

2015-2016

Verónica Lloréns Rico

“Integrative understanding of transcription in a minimal cell model”, supervised by Luis Serrano and Maria Lluch-Senar from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG). In her thesis, Llorens uses Mycoplasma pneumoniae as a model system to study the role of all the elements regulating transcription and to which extent each of them contributes to the observed RNA levels in the experiments.

The study has enlightened the understanding of bacterial transcription, in which regulatory elements form a hierarchy: basal mechanisms, such as regulation by nucleotide concentrations, lie at the bottom and are more subtle; whilst specific mechanisms, such as regulation by TFs, are on top.

Post-doctoral fellow at VIB

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2015-2016

Iñigo Olalde

“From the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age: unravelling 5,000 years of European population history with paleogenomics”, supervised by Carles Lalueza Fox from Pompeu Fabra University. In his thesis, Olalde recovers genome-wide data from ancient Europeans using the latest advances in Second Generation Sequencing techniques. This study makes a crucial contribution to the understanding of key demographic and evolutionary events and provides novel insights into the timing of recent selection events, such as dietary and pigmentation adaptations that helped Europeans to face the challenges imposed by new lifestyles and environments.

Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University

 

2015-2016

Josep Rodriguez Morató

“Metabolism of natural antioxidants: evaluation of the pathways involved in the in vivo biotransformation of tyrosol into hydroxytyrosol”, supervised by Rafael de la Torre from Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM). In his thesis, Rodriguez assesses new mechanisms responsible for hydroxytyrosol generation by using an array of methodologies and studies ranging from in vitro assays to in vivo experiments in animal models and humans. According to his results, hydroxytyrosol may contribute significantly to the health effects derived from moderate wine intake.

Post-doctoral researcher at USDA Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center

 

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2015-2016

José Luis Villanueva

“Insights into mammalian adaptive evolution through genomics data”, supervised by Maria del Mar Albà from Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM). In his thesis, Villanueva studies three main mechanisms of evolutionary innovation: the birth of new genes, the gene regulation of existing genes and sequence change.

Post-doctoral researcher at Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE).

 

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2015-2016

Albert Antolín 

"The Impact of Polypharmacology on Chemical Biology", supervised by Jordi Mestres, Principal Investigator at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) and Adjunct Professor at the DCEXS-UPF. In his thesis, Albert Antolín investigates the selectivity of small molecules on their target proteins and its implications on pharmacological safety.

Sir Henry Wellcome Post-doctoral Fellow at The Institute of Cancer Resarch

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2014-2015

Maria Martí Solano

"Ligand selectivity at GPCRs: from multi-target binding profiles to biased agonism", supervised by Manuel Pastor, Associate Professor at the UPF, and Jana Selent, Principal Investigator at the IMIM and Adjunct Professor at the DCEXS-UPF. In her thesis, Maria Martí investigates the detection of molecules that enable the development of more efficient and secure antipsychotic drugs.

Post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany.

Link

2014-2015

Kyriaki Papantoniou 

"Cancer risk and hormonal changes in night shift workers", supervised by Emmanouil Kogevinas, Principal Investigator at the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL). In her thesis, Kyriaki Papantoniou investigates the effects of night work on the risk of breast cancer.

Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Epidemiology of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

Link

2014-2015

Javier Prado Martínez

Great ape genomics: Diversity and evolution", supervised by Tomas Marques Bonet, ICREA Research Professor at the DCEXS-UPF. In his thesis, Javier Prado investigates the genetic diversity of wild-born great apes.

Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Human Genetics of the Wellcome Trsut Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.

Link

2014-2015

Leszek Pryszcz 

"Comparative genomics to unravel virulence mechanisms in fungal human pathogens", supervised by Toni Gabaldon, ICREA Research Professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG). In his thesis, Leszek Pryszcz investigates how genomic hybridization plays a key role in the emergence of novel pathogenic lineages.

Post-doctoral fellow at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland.

Link

2014-2015

Mekayla Storer 

"Investigating the Roles of Cellular Senescence in Embryogenesis and Aging", supervised by Bill Keyes, Principal Investigator at the CRG. In her thesis, Mekayla Storer investigates the mechanism of cellular senescence in embryonic development.

Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.

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2014-2015

Rosa Suades 

"Role of microparticles in atherothrombosis", supervised by Lina Badimon Maestro, Principal Investigator at the Cardiovascular Research Center (CSIC-ICCC) and Adjunct Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, USA, and Teresa Padró, senior scientist at the CSIC-ICCC. In her thesis, Rosa Suades investigates the effects of functional blood platelet microparticles in atherothrombotic cardiovascular disease.

Post-doctoral fellow at the CSIC-ICCC, Barcelona.

 

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2014-2015


 

Last update: January 2018 

 

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