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A group of PhD students made up of four students from BBT (Daniel Cabrerizo, Paula Urdalleta, Raúl Agut and Shana Jin) and one from CIEFMA (Diego Ruiz) from UPC were the winners of the Dermachallenge, proposed by Almirall, at the Healtech 2030 Innovation Challenge this year.

David Baker, director of the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington (UW, Seattle), supervisor of Jordi Guillem-Marti during his Marie Curie Global Fellowship in the USA (2019-2021) and current collaborator of the group, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions in using machine learning to predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins and designing them from scratch.