The company, located at the UAB Research Park, is part of this public-private initiative, led by the National Renewable Energy Centre (CENER) and formed by eight Spanish companies from a wide range of sectors.
Distinkt sprang from years of research by Dr. Àlex Julià-López, Dr. Claudio Roscini and CSIC Prof. Daniel Ruiz-Molina, from the Nanosfun group at the ICN2, and Prof. Jordi Hernando, from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. They have developed an invisible ink for anti-counterfeiting applications in official documents, banknotes, luxury goods, and more.
In an article published in the journal Antioxidants, researchers from the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau) and the UAB demonstrate in animal models that water enriched with hydrogen molecules (H2) improves the symptomatology of neuropathic pain and related emotional disturbances.
Over the course of three years, the team coordinated by the UAB has co-created open-use digital cultural content that is now available for consultation and adaptation to the project's Memory Centre Platform.
These funds, coming from the Menkes International Association, will allow a research project to search for new biomarkers to establish administration and monitoring protocols for a new drug that could improve the lives of children suffering from this rare disease. The project is led by Mercè Capdevila, professor in the Department of Chemistry at the UAB.
The research and innovation projects SO-CLOSE (coordinated by the UAB) and TRACTION (led by the Catalan firm Vicomtech with the involvement of the UAB) will present their main results on Wednesday 30 November at 10 a.m. at the European Commission in Barcelona.
Researchers at the UAB Faculty of Psychology and the human resources agency Talent Match will launch a pilot programme to apply video game logics to the workplace and manage talent through gamification strategies.