IBEC participates in 1st CERCA Conference
Today the 1st CERCA Conference brought together its 46 research centres at the new Centre Cultural in the former Mercat del Born.
Today the 1st CERCA Conference brought together its 46 research centres at the new Centre Cultural in the former Mercat del Born.
A PLOS ONE article by researchers from the joint unit IBEC, the Fundació Institut Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP) and the Pneumology Service at Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital describes the acoustic analysis of pulmonary sound intensity as a non-invasive, more objective, easier and cheaper method to improve diagnostics in unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis.
IBEC is one of the 13 research centres to be chosen to take part in Fundació Catalunya–La Pedrera’s 2014 edition of Professors i Ciència, an excellence programme for the specialized training for secondary school science teachers.
At Friday 28th March’s official ceremony for the 2013 round of RecerCaixa funding, IBEC junior group leader Elisabeth Engel will represent all the winners and centres as the investigator chosen to speak at the event.
IBEC group leaders Alícia Casals and Santiago Marco feature in a Sunday supplement about robots in La Vanguardia this week.
Tissue regeneration researchers at IBEC, UB and the UPC have developed an implant that could aid the regeneration of brain tissue, particularly in cases of pre- and postnatal injury.