Marta Barniol-Xicota

@mbarniolx.bsky.social

Assistant Prof @UPFbiomed. Junior Leader Fellow @BecariosFLC. Peptides, enzymes & things in membranes. https://barniolxicotalab.com/

Vaccines made once-deadly diseases rare, so medical training moved on. I’ve treated these diseases & seen the harm. Now as vaccines are undermined we must prepare doctors for diseases of yesterday—before they become today’s crises. My latest for @statnews.com 👇 www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/m...

Medical schools must prepare tomorrow’s doctors for yesterday’s diseases

Medical schools must now prepare tomorrow’s doctors for yesterday’s diseases.

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Run for tomorrow - donate.kuleuven.cloud/crowdfunding... You may know that I am an avid runner, for >35 years. The older, the more motivated I became. Last year, I ran my first full marathon. When I crossed the finish line, I thought: "This was the toughest thing I’ve ever done (beside a PhD)."

Run for Tomorrow: Antwerpen Marathon tegen kanker

Ik ben Emeric Bomans, student in mijn tweede bachelor geneeskunde aan de KU Leuven. Kanker vormt één van de grootste uitdagingen in de geneeskunde. Maar voor mij werd deze ziekte plots ...

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📢We are looking for a junior postdoc to join our lab. If you are interested on macrocyclic peptides and cancer immunotherapy, get in touch! ‼️spanish or/and catalan are required, since this position involves teaching duties 📩Deadline extended to June 30th

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Had a great time at #ABPP2025! Great to see so many former lab members and their students and postdocs. Awesome venue and program. Looking forward to ABPP2027 in Leiden and then Ben Cravatt and I will try to bring it to California!

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🚀 Our new #preprint is out! We developed a phage display platform for fast, direct screening of unnatural macrocyclic peptide substrates, enabling the discovery of highly selective protease substrates for imaging and therapeutic applications. Check it out! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 📄🔗 #ChemBio

Macrocyclic phage display for identification of selective protease substrates

Traditional methods for identifying selective protease substrates have primarily relied on synthetic libraries of linear peptides, which offer limited sequence and structural diversity. Here, we prese...

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