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‘Bruselas’, the name of the web server developed by UCAM PhD student Antonio Jesús Banegas-Luna to discover new drugs more quickly and accurately, is the focus of the scientific journal. Antonio Jesús Banegas-Luna, a PhD student at the Catholic University, together with researchers from the university’s BIO-HPC Group, Horacio Pérez-Sánchez and José Pedro Cerón-Carrasco, and Savíns Puertas-Martín, a PhD student at the University of Almería, feature on the second cover of the l

In January, the BIO-HPC research group began a study with the Austrian company Innophore GmbH to identify potential drugs, having already carried out the initial screening. Using several supercomputers ranked amongst the world’s top 100 most powerful, the BIO-HPC group is analysing thousands of molecules to predict which of them may be most effective against the target proteins being identified in the coronavirus. “At a molecular level, we can recommend drugs, but it is the d

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Researchers at UCAM and IMIB have carried out in vitro research using zeaxanthin and kukoamine A to prevent the virus from entering the cell. The Catholic University of Murcia and the Murcia Institute for Biomedical Research have been granted two national patents for the use of two drugs – previously used to treat other diseases – after demonstrating, through in vitro characterisation, that they could prevent viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells. The results of this

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Researchers from Estrella Galicia, the Fujitsu International Quantum Centre, the Galician Supercomputing Centre (CESGA) and the San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) are screening for potential molecules that stimulate receptors on the tongue. The BIO-HPC Research Group at the Catholic University of San Antonio in Murcia is collaborating on a project coordinated by Estrella Galicia, in which the Fujitsu International Quantum Centre and the Galician Supercomputing C

Supercomputing and evolutionary algorithms are transforming drug discovery, speeding up virtual screening and making it possible to compare millions of molecules with a level of precision and speed that was previously unthinkable. Today I’m sharing this interesting and educational article by Savíns Puertas (University of Almería), in which he explains how high-performance computing (HPC) is a cornerstone of new drug development. You can read the full article at: https://www.f

Lina Rojas from Colombia, whose Master’s thesis I had the pleasure of supervising, has been shortlisted as one of the eight finalists for the award for the best Master’s thesis in tourism for the 2024–2025 academic year. On 20 and 21 November, the XV REDINTUR-Icárion Forum and the LII Assembly of the Network were held at the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), two key events for the academic and professional tourism community. The event began with the official opening cerem

This software predicts that 7 per cent of people treated in A&E departments in the Region of Murcia will return within a month of being discharged, and can calculate an individual’s risk of readmission. A multidisciplinary research project at UCAM, led by Dr Juan José Hernández and Dr Horacio Pérez, has developed a methodology based on artificial intelligence (specifically machine learning) capable of predicting, with 95 per cent accuracy, relapse in patients who have been tr