Attributions

Each team member oversaw a particular task in accordance with a corresponding project module throughout the development of Vesiprod. We also received a lot of support from other people, including instructors, advisers, subject matter experts, and other important stakeholders. In addition, our sponsors provided us with financial support, which helped us to complete our project. Here, we list the tasks completed by each team member and express our gratitude to those who have assisted us along the journey.

Team members



External contributions

  • Principal investigators:
    • Dr. Manuel Reina: legal and scientific advice, representative figure for iGEM
    • Dr. Gaël Roué: legal and project advice, laboratory organization
  • Instructors:
    • Dr. Marcelo Lima: project and scientific advice, supervision, technical support
    • Dr. Núria Profitós: project and scientific advice, supervision, technical support
  • Project Advisor Support:
    • Dr. Fernando Setién: fusion PCR technique advice and support, reagents donation.
    • Francesc E. Borràs & Mercè Martí: their experience with exosomes has played a crucial role in the development of the scientific idea.
  • Laboratory Support:
    • Dr. Esteban Ballester: 293F cell line donation.
    • Marc Nicolau (Dr. Hernando del Portillo's group): lenting of NTA hardware and staff for operating.
    • Dr. Mercè Martí & Dr. Maria Isabel Pividori: scientific advice and Dynabeads anti-His donation.
    • Dr. Alejandro Vignoni: Golden Braid backbone plasmids donation.
    • Miranda, Marc i Laia.
  • Finances:
    • Dr. Xavier Testar Ymbert: coordination of University of Barcelona financial support, legal and economic advice, contact with CapitalCell. He helped us in the search for funding, his interest in the project and, most importantly, his help in the catalyzation of the agreement with UB for the registration to the competition. Without his support we couldn’t even have started the project.
    • Mercè Segarra & Marta Ferrer García: finantial support for registration.
    • M. Carme Verdaguer: finantial support for registration.
    • Sandra Florez & Silvia Piqueras: coordination of finantial support.
  • Logistic Support:
    • Marta Fernández: Josep Carreras Leukaemia Foundation. She helped with the search of a lab to develop our project, getting in touch with Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute.
    • Martí Badal: Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute. Enabled the establishment of the agreement with Dr. Gaël Roué to start working in his lab.
  • Outreach/ communication/ human practices Support:
    • María Farré: Department of Outreach of Josep Carreras Leukaemia Foundation. Posted a promotional video of our project on World Lymphoma Day.
    • Lucas Bogaert: Science Academy, Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera member. Contributed to educational training, Homemade Science.
    • Miriam Moreno: Hematologist at ICO Badalona. Interviewed on our podcast, helped us understand the impact of targeted therapies on the life of hematological patients.
    • Ariadna Iglesias: Economist at Ferrer Internacional. Interviewed on our podcast, helped us understand the intricacies of the investments in new therapies and the costs of their development.
    • Dr. Endika Prieto: Postdoctoral Researcher at CICbioGUNE. Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Lab. Interviewed on our podcast, helped us understand the importance of immunotherapies.
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