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La Marató

One more year, Dr. Noemí Serra and Dr. Roser Esplugas will participate in the divulgative talks of La Marató. La Marató is a solidarity event organized annually by the Public Catalan TV (TV3) and the "La Marató de TV3 Fundation". This year, all funds will go the research projects focused on minority diseases.

Posted on 12-12-2019

TecnATox on air

Prof. Maria Teresa Colomina, director of the "Multiple influences that shape behavior: Psychoexposome".

The interest in health care and well-being in the European Union is reflected in the main research priorities of the Horizon 2020 Program on social challenges, in which the project Multiple influences that shape behavior: Psychoexposome. Eight research groups from different Spanish Universities participate, including TecnATox from URV, determined to deepen the study of the biological markers of risk of the appearance of life-related diseases and create strategies to reduce the risk factors, in addition of spreading such knowledge nationally and internationally.

Posted on 03-12-2019

New publications of TecnATox

Herrero M, Rovira J, Esplugas R, Nadal M, Domingo JL. Human exposure to trace elements, aromatic amines and formaldehyde in swimsuits: Assessment of the health risks. Environ Res. 2019 Nov 22:108951. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108951

Scientific Articles

González N, Cunha SC, Ferreira R, Fernandes JO, Marquès M, Nadal M, Domingo JL. Concentrations of nine bisphenol analogues in food purchased from Catalonia (Spain): Comparison of canned and non-canned foodstuffs. Food Chem Toxicol. 2019 Nov 21:110992. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2019.110992

Scientific Articles

Rovira J, Domingo JL, Schuhmacher M. Air quality, health impacts and burden of disease due to air pollution (PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and O3): Application of AirQ+ model to the Camp de Tarragona County (Catalonia, Spain). Sci Total Environ. 2019 Nov 18:135538. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135538

Scientific Articles

Posted on 25-11-2019

TecnATox has been awarded with a "Research to Business" grant

Seven initiatives by researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili received a grant of the Research to Bussiness program organized by the URV, through the Foundation's valorisation unit, to promote initiatives that favor the arrival to market of knowledge and technologies developed in the University.

IN-NOVAPlàstics, a proposal presented by Prof. Marta Schuhmacher aimed at integrating innovative techniques to assess the quantity of micro- and nanoplastics in environmental samples, is one out of the seven awarded projects.

Posted on 20-11-2019

Doctoral thesis defense

Elga Schreiber, PhD candidate at TecnATox, successfully defended her doctoral thesis the last 15th November 2019, at 12.00h in Aula Magna, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Title: "Efectes de l'exposició al n-butilparabèn en el sistema reproductor masculí i l'estrès oxidatiu en testicles de rates joves"

Supervisors: Dr. Mercedes Gómez, Dr Tània García and Dr. Margarita Torrente.

Posted on 18-11-2019

The last publication of TecnATox

Sakamoto M, Itai T, Marumoto K, Marumoto M, Kodamatani H, Tomiyasu T, Nagasaka H, Mori K, Poulain AJ, Domingo JL, Horvat M, Matsuyama A. Mercury speciation in preserved historical sludge: Potential risk from sludge contained within reclaimed land of Minamata Bay, Japan. Environ Res. 2019 Aug 14;180:108668. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019

Scientific Articles

Posted on 29-10-2019