Research Category: Research

The ECaBox project has been featured in a “Results in Brief” article published on the European Commission’s CORDIS website, the main public portal for EU-funded research and innovation outcomes. This coverage presents ECaBox as a relevant example of EU-funded research and helps extend the project’s visibility beyond the consortium, reaching policy makers, researchers, and a […]

Great news! Marta Cadevall, researcher at CRG and part of the ECaBox team, was recently interviewed on Catalan Ràdio 4. She chatted about the exciting field of regenerative medicine and gave a shout-out to the ECaBox project. It’s always great to see our work getting some airtime and reaching a wider audience! 🎧 You can […]

The aim of the highly ambitious ECaBox project is to develop a platform for the resuscitation of the human cadaveric eye while ensuring eye function and structure ex vivo for an unprecedented time period. If successful, the developed care box can serve as a platform for the investigation of various therapeutic approaches for retinal degenerative […]

The retina converts the light received by the eye into a signal that our brain uses to create images, allowing us to see. Damage to the retina drastically affects vision. Could human retina be able to regenerate itself? According to the findings published today on eBioMedicine from a joint collaboration of ECaBox partners CRG and […]

Eye perfusion is key to provide blood circulation into the human eye. After the eye is removed from the donor, it needs to be cannulated to allow blood profusion to keep the eye with its needed nutrients and oxygen. This is a very complicated step that needs meticulous and perseverant work to be achieved. Our […]