2014 - Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia

February 12, 2015December 10, 2014

EIT selects ‘Innolife’ consortium for new KIC on health

IBEC is a core partner in the winning proposal for the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) on healthy living and active ageing.

InnoLife, a consortium of 144 European companies, research institutes and universities – including IBEC – has been selected by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) for EIT Health.

January 15, 2015December 10, 2014

Ramon Margalef Prize for former IBEC PhD student

Xavier Serra Picamal, formerly a PhD student in IBEC’s Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group, was awarded a prestigious Ramon Margalef Prize for the best paper derived from a doctoral thesis at a ceremony at the UB last night.

Xavier received the prize for a 2012 Nature Physics paper, “Mechanical Waves during tissue expansion”, which describes a new type of mechanical waves in living matter.

January 22, 2015December 9, 2014

“Quiròfans assistits per un robot” (Eng)

Today, La Vanguardia (left) and Interempresas.net report that Rob Surgical Systems, the IBEC/UPC spin-off company, has started validating its Bitrack Surgical Robot System for minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery.

Aiming to address the current shortcomings of laparoscopic surgery, the robot has been designed under the technical direction of Dr. Josep Amat (UPC) and Alicia Casals’ Robotics group (IBEC), with medical direction from Dr. Javier Magriña from Arizona’s Mayo Clinic, an expert in Da Vinci surgical robots.

January 16, 2015November 26, 2014

Second Networking & Innovation Day at PCB

The 2nd edition of the Networking & Innovation Day (NID) will take place tomorrow (Thursday) at the PCB.

Its objective is to create a benchmark in knowledge transfer between academia and business that promotes public-private collaboration, partnership agreements and open innovation.

January 16, 2015November 26, 2014

IBEC hosting CASEIB2014 this week

Today is the first day of the annual congress of the Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica (CASEIB 2014) which this year being organized by IBEC, as Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation group leader Raimon Jané is SEIB’s president.

It is taking take place at Barcelona’s CosmoCaixa museum until Friday 28th November.

January 23, 2015November 25, 2014

“Light-operated Drugs”

Pau Gorostiza’s work on optopharmacology, or light-controllable drugs, has appeared in the latest edition of The Scientist magazine in the US.

January 20, 2016November 24, 2014

Launch of health exhibition at Sant Feliu de Guíxols

Saturday saw the inauguration of the exhibition “Curar-se en salut” at the Museu d’Història de Sant Feliu de Guíxols, an initiative of the town’s council with the involvement of two CERCA centres, IBEC and Girona’s Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica (IDIBGi), among other bodies.

The vice-president of the Government of Catalonia, Joana Ortega i Alemany, and Minister of Health Boi Ruiz i Garcia were in attendance at the unveiling.

April 14, 2015November 20, 2014

“Un robot capaz de transportar fármacos a una célula cancerígena, mejor innovación del año”

Samuel Sánchez, who will join IBEC as a new group leader in January 2015, has been awarded the title ‘Innovador del año’ by MIT Technology Review, the best of their 10 selected “Innovadores menores de 35 España 2014”, for his pioneering contributions in the field of micro- and nanomotors, such as self-propelled nanorobots for biosensing applications.

This week, he has featured in articles and interviews by La Vanguardia, El Confidencial, El Mundo, Antena3, RAC1 and more.

October 19, 2015November 20, 2014

Olfactory system segregates odour data at moment of input

We all know how emotive smells can be; just the mere whiff of candy floss or plasticine can transport you back decades in a moment.

But how does our olfactory system recognise odours even at very low doses?

January 16, 2015November 19, 2014

NanoBio&Med 2014 taking place in Barcelona

This week the NanoBio&Med 2014 international conference, co-organised and sponsored by IBEC, is taking place in Barcelona.

The four-day event aims to cover current research and recent developments in the fields of nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine.