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Partner 5 - Universidad de Granada

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With 475 years of tradition, the University of Granada has been an exceptional witness to history, as its influence in the city's social and cultural environment grew until it was to become, over a period of almost five centuries, an intellectual and cultural nucleus in Southern Spain in its own right. It is currently a committed institution which is deeply involved in its setting, as shown in the University Reform Law (LRU), which defines universities as centres at the service of society, by means of teaching, research and the provision of services. In recent years, the University of Granada has faced, under the protection of the LRU and university autonomy, the greatest growth in its history, placing it among the top Spanish universities. Some 80,000 people are directly linked with the University of Granada, among them students, teachers and administrative and service staff.  

The University of Granada carries out research work through eleven Institutes involved in the study of different subjects: Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (Earth Sciences) (CSIC-University of Granada), Instituto Andaluz de Geofísica y Prevención de Desastres Sísmicos (Geophysics and the Prevention of Seismic Disasters), Instituto Andaluz Interuniversitario de Criminología (Criminology), Instituto de Biotecnología (Biotechnology), Instituto "Carlos I" de Física Teórica y Computacional (Theoretical and Computational Physics), Instituto del Agua (Water), Instituto de Desarrollo Regional (Regional Development), Instituto de Neurociencias "Federico Olóriz" (Neurosciences), Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de Alimentos (Nutrition and Food Technology), Instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Mujer (Women's Studies), Instituto Universitario de la Paz y los Conflictos (Peace and Conflicts), University Institute for Research in Biopathology and Regenerative Medicine.

The University of Granada takes an active part in the European Union's university programmes, both in the mobility of teachers and students as well as research. Programmes are coordinated from the Office of International Relations, and aimed at EU countries and other geographical areas (Latin America, Eastern Europe, North Africa, etc.). By way of bilateral or specific agreements between groups of universities, it has traditionally collaborated with universities from these geographical areas as well as with the USA, Japan, China, Israel, Canada, Australia, Benin, Asian countries from the former USSR, Palestine, Australia, etc., university associations such as the Coimbra Group, the AUIP, ISTEC, ATEI, etc. These are some of the examples of the collaboration initiatives.

Although the three most intense areas of cooperation, as might be expected for a country such as Spain and a University with the tradition of Granada, are the European Union, Latin America and the Magreb, of no lesser importance are the lines of collaboration which exist with the countries mentioned above. As a result of this cooperation, the University of Granada receives more than 8,000 lecturers, students and university administrators each year from all over the world, who attend Spanish classes, regular courses (around 5% of registration numbers), teach, collaborate with research groups, etc.

Research group information

Prof. Olea and his co-workers form a multi-disciplinary team of physicians, food scientists, biologists, biochemists and chemists who have undertaken projects on endocrine related human diseases for many years. The team has organised numerous national symposia on EDCs. Prof. N. Olea represents Spain on various international bodies (European Union, OECD, US/EU collaborative agreements. Prof. Olea and co-workers have extensive experience in developing and improving tests for estrogenicity and in identifying new estrogenic chemicals as well as new sources of exposure to such agents. They have used in vitro test systems such as the E-SCREEN as biomarkers of human exposure in epidemiological studies. They are experienced in designing every stage of epidemiological studies, including the selection of subjects, handling and processing of tissue samples, extraction and fractionation, and subsequent chemical and biological analysis.

The team is equipped with all the facilities needed to complete the proposed work, including gas chromatography, HPLC, cell culture laboratories, and facilities for processing human samples. Prof. Olea's team has access to human tissue samples in the regional tissue bank. The Laboratory of Medical Investigations is located at the University Hospital of Granada, an 800-bed National Public Hospital serving an urban population of 400,000 people.