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The specialist publication The Pharmaceutical Journal devotes a feature article to the efforts being made by researchers worldwide to get drugs across the blood-brain barrier in order to treat central nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and epilepsy. Among the scientists mentioned is Ernest Giralt and the work performed by his lab in search for peptides to be used as Trojan horses to smuggle drugs across the barrier.
The Pharmaceutical Journal, Vol 298, No 7901, online | DOI: 10.1211/PJ.2017.20202723
Read more here: A barrier to progress: getting drugs to the brain ($)
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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).
