Ninot Pedrosa, Martí (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
Amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ) is strongly linked to the aetiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Aβ is the main component of the amyloid plaques found in the brain of AD patients, however, Aβ is also present ...
Wang, Yan (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
The photocatalytic hydrogen production is considered an environmentally promising and friendly method, which could lead to achieve clean and renewable hydrogen and contribute in the future to store solar ...
Pajares Rojas, Arturo Javier (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)
Nowadays there is a growing interest in the capture and utilization of CO2 because of the increase of its concentration in the atmosphere. Captured CO2 can be recycled through different processes to ...
Serra Vidal, Bernat (Date of defense: 2014-05-27)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder which major risk factor is age. Current drugs only offer symptomatic alleviation in AD, thus a disease-modifying treatment is urgent. The amyloid-β ...
Guixer, Bernat (Date of defense: 2014-03-31)
The blood-brain barrier (888) is a biological barrier that plays a crucial role protecting the brain from neurotoxic agents and regulating the influx and efflux of molecules required for the correct ...
Gorrochategui Matas, Eva (Date of defense: 2018-04-20)
Lipidomics is a subset of metabolomics, which in turn, is one of the categorical platforms that constitute omics. Omic sciences aim at the study of the abundance and (or) structural characterization of ...
Sánchez Martínez, Melchor (Date of defense: 2014-12-09)
Proteins are flexible entities, and thus move. Its function is closely related to the flexibility. To carry out any function is necessary a conformational change. As protein motions imply an exchange ...
Prischich, Davia (Date of defense: 2021-02-23)
Photopharmacology is an emerging field that relies on the development of photosensitive compounds to enable precise spatiotemporal control over endogenous proteins. Photochromic ligands· are ...
Navarro-Segarra, Marina (Date of defense: 2022-07-27)
Digital technologies are generating a global transformation with economic, social, and environmental implications. Digitalization has already shown many benefits to society; however, it is also generating ...
Bernuz Fito, Efrem (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)
For many years symmetry has been a useful concept in the study of the spatial organization of atoms in molecules or solids. The presence of symmetry elements in a given molecular structure gives a ...