It is a great pleasure to announce the upcoming edition of this conference, the 8th scientific meeting of PhD students of BNC-b, JPhD 2024. JPhD2024 is aimed to exchange knowledge about scientific research from different fields, share research works and communicate among the PhD students of the BNC- b in an academic and scientific environment. The meeting will integrate the entire UAB research framework and open to other institutes and universities as well. The conference will be a 2-day long in person event framed with oral presentations, poster sessions, workshops, and interesting scientific plenary talks regarding current scientific issues given by established researchers in their own fields. We invite all the PhD researchers to the JPhD2024 to use this opportunity for fostering collaboration and exchange scientific ideas with some new friends that you may make during this meeting.