16/02/2011

Dr. Antoni Andreu, head of the group of neuromuscular and mitochondrial pathology, and Dr. Joan Montaner, head of neurovascular disease group of Vall d'Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) participate from 17 to 19 February in Daegu (South Korea) in the second meeting of International Medical Research Association, IMRA, which brings together the UAB, leading researchers from Catalan centers and eight Korean institutions. The meeting, which was also will be attended by Dr. Joaquin Arribas from VHIO, continues the one that took place last year on the UAB campus, and serves to lay the foundations for new joint research projects and new areas of academic collaboration in the field of biomedicine, as well as encourage the exchange of researchers and students with South Korea, a strategic country in the project of internationalization of Catalan research and in particular the UAB.Over thirty presentations will discuss both the future of IMRA as issues relating to various aspects of biomedical research (gene therapy, nanotechnology applied to health, biochemistry, etc.) i the treatment of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer or genetic, such as cancer, among others. Dr. Andreu will present the institutional profile of VHIR, and Dr. Montaner will introduce the Neurosciences area. In addition to UAB and the Catalan research centers involved, IMRA members are Daegu-Gyeongbuk Free Economic Zone Authority, the Catholic University of Daegu, the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology, Daegu Haany University, Keimyung University, the Kyungpook National University, Pohang University of Science and Technology and Yeungman University.