EditorUriach

• Date: March 12–13, 2026
• Venue: Centre Tarraconense El Seminari, Tarragona

The Bioactive Compounds and Nutraceuticals Conference is a scientific meeting aimed at disseminating cutting-edge research on bioactive compounds, their efficacy, and the underlying mechanisms behind their beneficial effects on health.

Renowned researchers come together to share scientific perspectives, fostering knowledge exchange and reflection on the present and future of bioactive compounds. The program includes specialized sessions focused on strategic areas and the latest trends across all stages of research. It is open to undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students, as well as healthcare professionals and industry stakeholders.

For more information and registration, visit the website of the CUdN

From 9 to 19 December 2025, the Uriach Foundation presented the exhibition “Joan Uriach Marsal (1929–2024). Business, Science and Culture.”

Organised to mark the first anniversary of Dr Joan Uriach Marsal’s passing, founder of our institution, a key figure in the company’s history, and a leading reference in our country’s pharmaceutical sector, the exhibition traces his professional and personal journey: from his early days in the family laboratory to his decisive role in Uriach’s modernisation and international expansion.

The exhibition highlights his pioneering vision, his commitment to research and innovation, and his deep humanist vocation, values that continue to inspire Uriach today.

On 19 December 2025, representatives of the Board of Trustees of the Uriach Foundation visited the Reial Acadèmia de les Bones Lletres, located in the centre of Barcelona.

During the tour, guided by the institution’s president, Dr Borja de Riquer i Permanyer, they learned about the Academy’s history and activities, as well as its valuable heritage. This includes an archive, the documentary result of almost three hundred years of the institution’s existence, and a highly significant library with more than 70,000 items, unique of its kind as a heritage library specialising in Catalan humanities.

On 17 November 2025, the Board of Trustees of the Gran Teatre del Liceu presented, posthumously, the Gold Medal to Dr Joan Uriach Marsal, founder and president of the Uriach Foundation, who passed away in December 2024, in recognition of his affection for and philanthropic commitment to the Liceu and to Catalan culture more broadly.

A businessman and patron of the arts with a strong artistic and cultural sensibility, he was noted for his close ties to Barcelona’s business, social and cultural fabric, and for his active involvement in key cultural institutions in the country. His inclusive vision and his commitment to the development of culture, and opera in particular, have left a valuable legacy, which also earned him the Creu de Sant Jordi in 1987.

This corporate advertisement by Uriach (1927) is intended to present and promote the company, highlighting its long history “Founded in 1838” and a modern corporate structure for the time “S.A.” (public limited company).

In the piece, Uriach describes itself as a laboratory and factory for chemical-pharmaceutical products and outlines a business model that includes import and export activities, emphasizing its role as Spain’s agent for well-known French, Italian, British, and North American pharmaceutical specialties.

The advertisement identifies and shows, through two photographs, the company’s premises in 1927: the offices at Bruch, 49, and the industrial complex at Fomento, 59–65. At the bottom, it lists telephone numbers, a post office box, and a telegraphic address, typical forms of commercial communication of the period.

In 1725, the “Opera omnia anatomica et chirurgica” was published in Amsterdam, a majestic edition that gathered and reinterpreted the work of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), the great reformer of modern anatomy.

Three centuries later, this compilation remains a publishing milestone: it not only preserved the legacy of the renowned “De humani corporis fabrica” of 1543, but also presented it in a monumental format, accompanied by magnificent anatomical illustrations that forever transformed the way medicine was taught.

The Library of the Uriach Foundation preserves an original copy of this historic edition, a testimony to the transition between the Renaissance and Enlightenment science.

In 2025, we celebrate 300 years of a key work that marked the beginning of the path toward modern medicine as we know it today.

This 1904 Uriach advertising calendar combines practical utility with the promotion of the company’s products.

This 1904 Uriach advertising calendar combines practical utility with the promotion of the company’s products. Printed at the F. Mascaró Printing House, each double-page spread offers a two-month calendar with saints days and festivities, alongside an advertisement for medicines from the ALOMAR line, such as cod liver oil, Morrhuol capsules, bitter orange bark syrup, turpentine pearls or ether, mustard paper, and kola nut wine, as well as international products for which the company was the exclusive agent, such as Allcock’s plasters, Brandreth’s pills, or Pagliano’s specialties.

Added to the Uriach Foundation Archive database, this calendar is a clear example of pharmaceutical marketing prior to modern regulation, with a Modernist aesthetic that reflects Uriach’s diversification and consolidation in the Spanish market of the early 20th century.

Since 2011, every July 24th marks International Self-Care Day, a date promoted by the International Self-Care Foundation to remind us that well-being begins with the choices we make every day.

dedicated to the history of health sciences and natural health, we know that self-care is not a recent trend. Throughout the centuries, different cultures have valued balanced nutrition, rest, physical activity, contact with nature, and the use of medicinal plants as pillars for preserving health. From the thermal baths of the classical world to the hygienist recommendations of the 19th century, history shows us that caring for oneself has always been both an individual and a collective responsibility.

Today, more than ever, promoting self-care means fostering prevention, active listening to the body, and emotional health. It also means recovering natural, sustainable, and environmentally respectful practices as tools for physical and mental balance.

On this International Self-Care Day, we encourage you to:
✔ Prioritize rest and movement
✔ Connect consciously with your nutrition
✔ Find moments of calm and silence
✔ Make use of natural resources to improve your well-being

Because health doesn’t begin in a doctor’s office, but in the way we live each day.

On June 26, the Uriach Friends event took place, created and organized by the Uriach Foundation with the aim of bringing together former collaborators of the company to share experiences, celebrate shared successes, and create new memories.

The reunion was held at the Palau Dalmases in Barcelona (Montcada Street, 20), a space that was Uriach’s second headquarters between 1872 and 1919, and where the company began a process of growth and evolution that continues to this day.

The first edition, held on June 26, 2025, at the Palau Dalmases in Barcelona, was a reunion filled with joy and emotion that exemplifies one of Uriach’s most important values: people come first. For this inaugural session, a small group of participants was gathered, which allowed us to gain valuable learnings. Thanks to the success of this first meeting, in future editions we will extend the invitation to a larger number of friends, who will enrich the event with new perspectives, memories, and synergies.

On June 19, representatives of the Board of Trustees of the Uriach Foundation visited the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, located on La Rambla.

During the tour, they were able to discover the institution’s valuable heritage, with special attention to the clock collection, the archive, the astronomical, meteorological and seismological instruments, as well as its specialized library, which houses more than one hundred thousand volumes, including works by such renowned authors as Galileo Galilei.