2012/10/01

First 1st Board Meeting of the UPStream Consortium organized by CIC bioGUNE in Bilbao

CIC bioGUNE leads the UPStream project, an excellence training program for young scientists investigating the biochemical process of ubiquitylation and other related modifications. The 1st Supervisory Board Meeting will take place in the AlhóndigaBilbao during the 1st and the 2nd of October. The event will bring together more than 20 participants, leading scientists in Biomedical research from seven different European countries.

The Centre for Cooperative Research in Biosciences CIC bioGUNE was selected to lead the UPStream project, with an allocated funding of 3.3 million euros, focusing on specific training of 12 young scientists in the biochemical process of ubiquitylation and other related processes. The project will last 48 months and officially started last November. The student hired by CIC bioGUNE joined the team in January this year.

UPStream, coordinated by CIC bioGUNE researcher Rosa Barrio , focuses on a critical and complex field in modern biology: understanding the regulation of post-transcriptional modifications and the ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation system (UPS, ubiquitin-proteasome system), and its potential application in drug development.