IBEC in the Media

Yesterday IBEC appeared on Canal 33’s “El día de demà” programme in an episode about disease.

The programme, which is the brainchild of journalist Josep Puigbó and is directed by TV3 in association with l’Obra Social “la Caixa”, addressed the fact that in the last fifty years, life expectancy has increased by thirty years and that disciplines such as photonics, nanotechnology, robotics and augmented reality are opening new ways to diagnose, prevent or treat diseases of the future.

This weekend Samuel Sanchez was interviewed by El Punt Avui and ABC talking about nanorobots and the future of medicine.

Today’s news about the launch of a multi-million euro 3D printing infrastructure in Catalonia, the Global 3D Printing Hub, got lots of press coverage, some examples of which are listed below.

Premi Nacional de Recerca winners Samuel Sanchez and ICFO’s Lluís Torner appeared on El Punt Avui’s L’Illa de Robinson programme on Wednesday, after the awards ceremony on Tuesday night. It’s just one example of the huge amount of press coverage there’s been about the awards.

Yesterday’s press release about the Nature Cell Biology paper has had lots of coverage in the national newspapers, TV and radio channels.

Josep Samitier features today in El Mundo Innovadores in an article for which he was interviewed at last week’s Nano World Cancer Day event in Barcelona.

An interview with Josep Samiter about miniaturised sensors that provide real-time information to physicians during endoscopic procedures appears on the website Medtronic Eureka.

The recent news about Pere Roca-Cusachs’ MECHANOCONTROL, the largest European project ever coordinated at IBEC, was reported in La Vanguardia last week.

A video of an interview of Miquel Bosch, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group, talking about his research on drugs activated by light and demonstrating with a home-made cockroach armed with a light sensor.

Group leader and ICREA professor Samuel Sanchez appeared as a guest on the La 2 magazine programme Tips on Wednesday 19th.