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The research project "GENDER, HEALTH & AGING" of the University of Murcia (UMU) has been selected, along with seven other national research projects, to be exposed from next November and for a year at the National Museum of Science and Technology (MUNCYT) of A Coruña.

The results of this research, led by Professor María Trinidad Herrero Ezquerro of the Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience (NiCE) group of the Faculty of Medicine, and director of the University Institute for Research in Aging of the UMU, will share space with projects belonging to the universities of Burgos, Cádiz, Coruña, Granada, Navarra, Basque Country and UOC.

With the initiative of the UMU, according to Herrero, the aim is to know variable aspects of women's health with aging in order to improve the health of the population in relation to non-communicable diseases: cardiovascular, metabolic, renal and neurological.

This multidisciplinary study GENDER ERA-NET groups researchers from 5 countries (Canada, Sweden, Austria, Cyprus and Spain) and proposes to develop policies, educational and training projects for the general population in relation to health and gender.

The objectives are to integrate the dimensions of gender and sex in applied health research, assess the impact on clinical outcomes and patient responses (related to quality of life) and build innovation ways to disseminate the application of personalized gender measures in order to improve prevention, prognosis and treatment.

In the third edition of "Campus Vivo, Investigate in the University", nine universities have submitted a total of 20 projects for the four major thematic areas defined in the exhibition.

The area "Origin of humanity" will show visitors the project on Atapuerca "Body and mind: size also matters", prepared by the University of Burgos.

In addition, the University of Granada will explain the "Origins in the Granadino Altiplano", a perfect physical scenario where the first appearance of man in the Iberian Peninsula took place.

In the category "Challenges for the future", an investigation will be exposed to take advantage of sustainable way the ecological services that provide two species of macroalgae with the project "Ficology applied to estuaries" of the University of Cádiz;

and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) will participate with "DECODE", a research aimed at responding to the growing concern of users regarding the loss of control of their personal data on the Internet.

Among those selected in the category "Scientific and Technological Advances" are the project "Advanced additive manufacturing and stem cells to generate therapeutic cardiac tissues" from the University of Navarra, which will show how to generate human heart tissue by combining cardiac cells derived from stem cells, and the "Applied Geometry" of the University of Coruña, which will bring this discipline to the general public, paying special attention to the youngest.

Finally, in the category of "Challenges of social", are the project of the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea that will surprise with "Microscopic magnets that can save our lives" and the aforementioned from the UMU.

The different projects that will compose the exhibition, curated by the University of Oviedo, have been selected by the MUNCYT-Crue Spanish Universities Commission composed of three members of different Units of Scientific Culture and Innovation (UCC + i) Spanish and three representatives of the National Museum of Science and Technology (MUNCYT) of A Coruña.

This is an initiative of Crue Spanish Universities, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the National Museum of Science and Technology (MUNCYT) that aims to transfer to society the importance of research that is developed in all the areas of knowledge of Spanish universities for territorial and social development and the improvement of the quality of life of citizens.

Source: Universidad de Murcia