Interview with Xavier Luria

He was head of Safety and Efficacy of Medicines at the European Agency of Medicines for almost seven years, and he is an internationally recognized expert in the clinical development of drugs. Now he is back in Barcelona, we have taken the opportunity to speak to him about scientific development and to learn about his…

2014

Dotze dones en la biomedicina del segle XX

Después de publicar la serie Doce mujeres en la biomedicina del siglo XX en Annals de Medicina, la revista de la Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears, la Fundación Dr. Antonio comienza la distribución del cuaderno homónimo en catalán (y cuya edición en castellano también está disponible en…

2014

Ferré S, Casadó V, Devi L, Filizola M, Jockers R, Lohse M, Milligan G, Pin JP, Guitart X. G Protein?Coupled Receptor Oligomerization Revisited: Functional and Pharmacological Perspectives. Pharmacol Rev. 2014; 66:413?434[Camp rebut correctament i traduit]

Los participantes en el Esteve Foundation Discussion Group sobre los heterómeros de receptores acaban de publicar en la prestigiosa revista Pharmacological Reviews una revisión con los puntos que se debatieron durante las jornadas de trabajo sobre la oligomerización de receptores acoplados a proteína G (GPCR), una línea de investigación cuyo potencial terapéutico se sigue explorando.…

2014

The origins and shaping of modern anti-infective therapy

The germ theory of disease was initiated in the 19th century by Louis Pasteur. Lord Lister promoted the idea of antisepsis while Semmelweis focused on hand washing identifying the spread of infection by objects (in this case contaminated hands) moving from infected patient to uninfected ones. This gave the conceptual basis for infectious disease and its management and set the stage for development of modern anti-infective therapy, one of the major medical advances of the 20th century.

2014

Pharmacotherapy Revisited

(CA) Els Pharmacotherapy Revisited recuperen en facsímil els documents que van jugar un paper de primer ordre en el desenvolupament de les diferents branques de l’especialitat mèdica, seleccionats per experts en les diferents disciplines. Els Pharmacotherapy Revisited es distribueixen de forma gratuïta a biblioteques universitàries i institucions científiques. A través d’aquesta pàgina web, també podrà demanar

2014

Notebooks

The Esteve Foundation Notebooks may include either a series of articles published in a scientific journal which –with the copyright owner’s permission– are intended to be diffused elsewhere or, for example, the content of a meeting not directly organized by the Foundation that otherwise might find difficulties in being published. These booklets also gather the content of…

Monographs

The content of Dr. Antonio Esteve’s Monographs is usually related with the submissions and discussions of the round tables organized by the Foundation. Some special issues gather other types of material, e.g. a pharmacologists’ glossary or a monograph on translation and language in medicine. The Dr. Antonio Esteve’s Monographs are distributed free of charge to university libraries…