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The Braincure project, leaded by Sánchez Alcázar, receives a research aid from the Feder Foundation

The project is called BrainCure: Medicina de precisión personalizada para las ENACH (BrainCure: personalised precision medicine for NBIA disorders). It has been developed by the scientific team led by the UPO lecturer José Antonio Sánchez Alcázar and is one of the four projects selected by the Spanish Foundation for Rare Diseases (FEDER) in the V Convocatoria de Ayudas a la Investigación (fifth official announcement for research grants). Its resolution has been evaluated by the Carlos III Health Institute.

25 March 2020

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Statement of the Rectors of Andalusian Public Universities about enlarging the measures taken on Covid-19

After the Government of Spain declared the state of alarm, according to the Spanish Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14th March, and the measures taken by the Andalusian order of 13th March of the Andalusian regional ministry of health and families (Consejería de Salud y Familias), adopting public health preventive measures in Andalusia as a consequence of the health crisis situation[Read More…]

15 March 2020

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Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) keeps its academic offerings for the year 2020/2021

The UPO Governing Council, which is headed by the rector Vicente Guzmán Fluja, has approved this morning the proposal for new university vacancies for the 2020/2021 course. Therefore, there will be 2553 new vacancies in 47 degrees and double degrees for the next course. 40 out of these degrees and double degrees will be given in the UPO campus (2127 vacancies) and 7 out of those ones in the associated university centre San Isidoro de Sevilla (426 vacancies).

27 February 2020

Científicos de nueve países muestrearon cerca de un centenar de ecosistemas terrestres durante la investigación

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Soil biodiversity is fundamental to maintain the health and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide

A study published in the prestigious journal Nature Ecology and Evolution and led by researchers from the Laboratoy of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) provides novel evidence that multiple elements of soil biodiversity are fundamental for maintaining the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems across global biomes.

4 February 2020

Desde la izquierda, Francisco A. Gómez, Miguel García, Federico Divina y Fernando M. Delgado en un laboratorio de informática de la UPO

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UPO researchers create ‘in silico’ models used for identifying genetic biomarkers involved in lung cancer

Researchers from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO), liaised with researchers from the Universidad Americana from Paraguay, have carried out an in silico study, i.e. a computer simulation study. Biomedical data of 187 patients have been used to identify new genetic biomarkers, which are involved in tumour development of lung cancer. The leader of the multidisciplinary team is the professor Francisco A. Gómez and it is composed by researchers from the Intelligent Data Analysis Group and from Data Science & Big Data Research Lab (UPO), including Fernando M. Delgado, Miguel García and Federico Divina.

3 February 2020

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A multidisciplinary research team led by the UPO University analyzes thousands of genomes of the iraqibacter

The UPOBioinfo group, led by the professor Antonio J. Pérez-Pulido in the University Pablo de Olavide in Seville (Spain), together with the group of the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, and the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, and professors from the Data Science & Big Data Research Lab, with Federico Divina and Miguel García, started the analysis of around 2,500 genomes of A. baumannii in 2018.

23 October 2019

Universidad Pablo de Olavide researchers come up with pantothenate kinase-associated therapeutic solution to palliate neurodegeneration

The scientific research team from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide led by doctor José Antonio Sánchez Alcázar has published a new study in the international magazines Molecular Neorubiology and Neural Regeneration Research. The study suggests therapeutic solutions for pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN), which is one of the 12 subtypes of the so-called rare disease NACH that affects children in their first decade of life.

10 June 2019

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Which will be the main cause for terrorism by 2040?

A recent study carried out by Pablo de Olavide University’s professor Manuel R. Torres Soriano and University of Barcelona’s Mario Toboso Buezo point out technophobia as main mobilizing force.

5 June 2019

Jonathan Pass: “It’s too soon to talk about the end of American hegemony”

Lecturer at the School of Public International Law and International Relations at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Jonathan Pass presents his theory on world hegemony with a Neo neo-gramscian focus, with which he analyses the complex interaction of the internal and external social forces responsible for the evolution of US hegemony, paying special attention to the new role of China within the international sphere. The research conclusions have been issued by the publisher Routledge (New York) in his book “American Hegemony in the 21st Century: a Neo Neo-Gramscian Perspective”.

12 April 2019

Estudiantes en clase, campus de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide

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Universidad Pablo de Olavide is remarkable for its academic performance

The foundation Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo (CYD, for its Spanish acronym) has published the report Las universidades españolas. Una perspectiva autonómica. 2018, which itemises the main figures from the Informe CYD 2017, considering not only the geography but also the universities. Concerning rate of return, the UPO has the highest return rate among the Andalusian public universities, both in bachelor’s degrees (83%) and in official master’s degrees (95.7%). It is overtaken only in the first case by Loyola Andalucía, with an 83.7%. These figures place the UPO among the best Spanish universities about rate of return, tenth in degrees and ninth in postgraduate courses, since the national average is 80% and 89.7% respectively.

3 April 2019