News

Esparza JL, Gómez M, Domingo JL. Role of Melatonin in Aluminum-Related Neurodegenerative Disorders: a Review. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2018 May 7. doi: 10.1007/s12011-018-1372-4.

The coordinating Committee of Nanomed Spain accepted the adhesion of TecnATox on the Spanish nanomedicine platform, also called Nanomed Spain. The Platform is committed to work as efficiently as possible with the available resources to consolidate the good position of Spain in this emerging area, where it is located in the leading group at an international level.

HEALS (Health and Environmet-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys) has recently launched the 7th issue of the HEALS newsletter. This issue is about: an article that reveals the risks of prenatal exposures to bisphenol A and the dynamics of metabolic reactivation, using a PBPK modeling at pregnancy; the funciton of an open platform elaborated by HEALS; the numerous documents and data files currently available in this online platform designed for external training; a paper on the human exposure to organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides, specifically in occupationally-exposed and general populations living in rural and urban areas.

Marquès M, Cervelló D, Mari M, Sierra J, Schuhmacher M, Domingo JL, Nadal M. The role of iron oxide on the photodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: characterization and toxicity. Polycycl Aromat Comp. 2018 Apr 19. doi: 10.1080/10506638.2018.1458743.

Prof. Teresa Colomina, director of Neurotoxicology, Psichopharmacology and Behavioral Science area, has been awarded as distinguished professor.

Rovira J, Schuhmacher M, Nadal M, Domingo JL. Contamination by coal dust in the neighborhood of the Tarragona Harbor (Catalonia, Spain): A preliminary study. The Open Atm J. 2018; 12:14-20. doi:10.2174/1874282301812010014.

TecnATox practiced two field investigations in the vicinity of Besòs incinerator in 2014 and 2017. These studies pointed to an increased risk of cancer in inhabited areas near the plant, the that more waste burns in Catalonia with about 400,000 tons per year. The concern that caused in neighboring neighborhoods, with some 56,000 neighbors, impacted on the platform Aire Net, which has denounced before the Prosecutor alleged illegalities to hide the pollution that blames the plant. The alarm has forced the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) and the City Council of the capital -owners of the public company Tersa, which manages the installation- to commission new studies.

Dr. Jaume Folch, researcher of TecnATox, has recently published a book. It is entitled "El naufragi dels records. Què hi ha darrere de malalties com l'Alzheimer?" (The shipwreck of memories. What is behind Alzheimer's disease?). This book explains, with an understandable and at the same time rigorous language, why diseases like this deprive us of memories, emotions, affection. It is also about the most surprising theories in the field of neuroscience and reveals the keys to future therapies. We live an extraordinary moment in the search for new treatments for brain disorders that will open a new era for humanity.

Venkatanaidu Karri obtained the PhD degree with the highest qualitification Excellent Cum Laude.

Venkatanaidu Karri, PhD candidate in TecnATox, will defend his doctoral thesis on 9th April 2018, at 9.30h in Sala de Graus, Chemical Engineering School, Universitat Rovira i Virgili.